Show V JEWELED GOWNS COWNS AT GOTHAM COTHAM BALL BALI NEW YORK YORI Jan 30 By The Associated The Press Press Th ghost eliott- of kIng Lout Louis XIV celebrated th the of tho the kings kines birthday by lording It all over lie grand ladles and nobles of his bis time for for a 1 brief while la last t night at the beaux beauxart beauxart art arts ball at the Hotel Astor The Th ball was waa described as the most moat brilliant affair of oC Its inn kind since the th Venetian ball In 1914 The ballroom had been converted Into the th gardens of Versailles a place of shadowed groves and moonlit spaces statues and foun foun- fountains fountains fountains with the tho royal lodge In the tho background A thoroughbred Jersey Jer- Jer Jersey Jer Jersey sey cow look looked cd on Whitney Warren as Lc Lo Rot Kol Sol Sol Sol- Solid Sol Sol-lel leI id and Princess as Queen Maria Marla Theresa opened the ball bail at 1130 They were attend attend- attended attended attended ed by all the famous princes s l prin ceases and courtiers of oC the day These stood while envoys from Crom Scotland Persia Genoa and Africa were presented Then with Ith a wearied wave of the hand habd Le L Rol Soliel signified that it was his pleasure that the thO ballet begin In evidence Mrs Irs Stanwood Men Men- Mena Men 1 a Icings kines ransom were everywhere e In evidence c Mrs Mra Men lien Menken's Men kens kens ken's ken costume was said to have hav cost Fourteen seamstresses I worked for four lour weeks over the sil- sil silvery sil sli silvery very fabric on which was sewn Mrs Mra also wore wOle the tha famous Camous Hope ruby loaned by a 0 jewelry firm and val val- valued val valued at |