Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-01-16 | Page 5 | Chicago Ballroom Turns to Fairyland under Effect of "Electrical Favor"

BALLROOM TURNS TO fAIRYLAND l t UN ER EFFECT CT OF ELECTRICAL FAVOR i CHICAGO Jan 16 hu 3 0 society Eclipsed itself last night cony toay to- to fay ay ar at the bachelors and benedicts benedicts' ball The affair taking the thc place as ns asIt it did it-did did of ot tho the midwinter cotillon tho the bi daneo of the tho closing reason earon was wan tho the most weird weini and fantastic social vent event er held beld in tho the cit city Tho The electrical favor or had its corn com ins ing out put party in fantastic 1 lighting and scenic Henic displays on which a thO J thousands of dollars were wro spent Th The apparatus alone cost and nd ten men wro necessary necessary sary ar to work the tho his big spot rot and novelty DO lights lichts which cast their weird reflections about the great creat hall haU The Tho If stunts and Dd there were more moro than twenty of them were the most fantastic and novel over ever introduced b by in iu Chicago o. o Weird monstrous trous crept about the great ballroom floor while Ji lightning crashed an and thunder roared Whirling f seething curtain curtains curtains cur cur- tain with liko snake motions would woul fall from the tho ceiling draping the dancers dane ers erg in their coils coBs while whilo varicolored vari vari- van van- colored kaleidoscopic pic lamps threw fantastic light on the tho scene Long Italian gondolas lit by bv tiny tin cents swept across tio tho floor while whilo Venetian singers mingers standing in them san ean sang love lovo ballads Then the scene would change and tho the sumptuously dressed women and their thir companions would Woul b be chan changed cd into a blinding maze of brilliant van colored light bt