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Show SH T?TK'S "400" CLOSES THE SOCIAL SEASON WITH A MOST G0RGEUS EGYPTI BRADLEYRTIN BALL Jci-uc at gurgvaa TIC any tttf What was considered to have eclipsed the famous Bradley-Martin fancy dress ball was given by Mr. Louis C. Tiffany, the famous New-Yorker, New-Yorker, to more than four hundred of the elect of New York's society. This affair wound up New York'6 so- j clal season and w as held just before the beginning of Ix'nt Fvery guest wore a costume prevalent in the tlmei of Cleopatra. Some of those who were present were John D Rocke- feller, Jr., and Mrs. Rockefeller. C. H. Alexander and wife. Mr. and Mrs. I Rodman Gilder, and hundreds of oth-j ers socially prominent. The photograph shows the scene during the Egyptian pantomime, bas-1 ed on the return of Marc Antony and, welcomed by the famous Cleopatra. In the center of the stage the famous classic dancer, Miss Ruth St. Denis, ' is going through the gyrations of one' of her dances for the edification of. Cleopatra, who, as impersonated by Miss Hedwlg Relcher, the actress, is seen reclining on a divan on the left of the picture, watching the dancer. fsjljlj! Immediately behind Cleopatra can le jH ie D Mare Antony, as Impersonated by Pedro De Cordoba. The ladles-ln- v. liting on the stage are all socially prominent. Rose leaves can bo seen scattered over the floor leading; up the stairway to the etage, strewn by the little flower girls in the fore- gtound, on the arrival of the queen. |