Show PRETTY EttY DANGER TAKES POISON TABlETS Mystery Surrounds Illness Which Follows Wild Party With Senators By Universal Service WASHINGTON Dec 3 Mystery Mystery surrounding the desperate illness of Miss Rita Hall beautiful dancer of the Mecca production was deepened today when it was asserted that a liquor party at which two United States senators senators senators sena sena- tors were guests was staged In a Washington hotel on the night before she was stricken I Miss Hall who was once described as the most beautifully formed girlin girlIn girl girlin in New York state is a patient atthe at at atthe the emergency hospital here The hospital authorities refuse to make any statement as to the cause of her ill illness ill ill- ness The police however say that she swallowed twenty-four twenty grains of I and two of ot mercury mercury mercury mer mer- cury tablets In her dressing room following following fol tol- lowing the matinee performance Thursday Although Police Inspector Allen who questioned the girl at the hospital quotes her as saying I I wanted to die members of the Mecca company insist that she did not attempt suicide but that she was taken to the hospital suffering suffering suffering suf suf- fering from the effects of ot bad liquor DETAILS GUARDED Every effort was made today to keep the details of ot the liquor party from becoming becoming be becoming be- be coming public It is understood that the affair was attended by Miss l Hall who plays Isis the Goddess of Love Lovein in the Mecca and Miss Susanne Rennard Rennard Ren- Ren nard a a member of the chorus With them were two men described as United United United Unit Unit- ed States sen senators tors Their identity was not divulged Miss Hall and Miss Rennard have been fast friends for several Years jears The party is said to have lasted until the small hours and the girls were Ina In Ina a nervous state when they reported for the matinee performance They quarrelled each bitterly denouncing the other In voices so loud they could be heard over the back stage accordIng accordIng accord- accord Ing to other members of the company Miss Hall appeared to take the rift rUt with her companion much to heart I She went through her performance without spirit and returned to her dressing room A f few w. w minutes later she was heard groaning Members of the company entered and found her her on on t the e floor In great agony She was still In her stage costume a scanty affair consisting of ot pearls AMBULANCE CALLED Miss P Rennard Pennard ennard was one of the first to go to the assistance of the stricken girl girl TTA An ambulance was called and Miss Hall lIall was taken to the emergency hospital where Miss Rennard has been at her side almost constantly Miss Rennard who is said said t to o b be French has refused to make any statement about the affair nor to say anything about the party that preceded pre pre- ceded Miss Halls Hall's Illness The pre pre-I fact that such a party part was held developed In the in-the the e co course of th the altercation al i that 1 1 r caused the temporary break between the two It was referred to by other members of ot the company who have been warned by their manager manager manager man man- ager John J J. Dillon not to discuss the affair under penalty of dismissal At the hospital tonight it was said that Miss Hall HaB will recover |