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Show I fnert, a' men a"d a dressed in Turkish costumes, lolled on luxurious sfi fat, while alluring girls, itis said , writhed and wriggled in strange . ' I Why That Gay Turkish Party of Mr. Burton's May Have Been What ude Charlotte Demarest eave Him "Waiting At e Church" and Marry Another Man BfF ONLY George hadn't given that III drarfful Turkish dinner!" H -j.n ! the i-r.ii.v -M,ken com-BHu com-BHu is being made in New York :PTf by friend-1 of George Burton, B r'-. " younp society man, wliosc Charlotte Gardiner Demarest, jilted him on the very eve of Hfr tiding to marry Count Edward Hl Zichy, a youthful Hunpanan ptkere seems to lie pood reason to tint behind this if" of younp Baton's friend- lurks tin- rial rea-w'-' 'he blighted romance which left !Kt literally "waiting at the H'wtm, it may be that in bccominp WCtiinteis Zichy the former Miss jT1 only exercised what is tailed J15' right to change her mind. Pos-RWion Pos-RWion by iho ardent wooing SKo man, which per-i -1 . . i up to jm- nsmtnt and refuel to Wr an answer. It may bt. thai the Wj influence! her; American FJi: ' have had a weakness And theie are other pos-ihili- 5 iPjnight explain the recent broken jjfsn-. ar.d runaway marri; ge P' i rather significant that the P of the commentators always Rio the lament "If only George J Wen that dreadful Turkish din- generally is acknowledged that F a r.tce younp chap, and very toat dinner he pave was as Bd as perfectly all ripht as he trouble seems to have been K'voj reputation for wicked-gAhiapartj wicked-gAhiapartj Kot Burton, who, with his Mother. bnr 15 nnm at th.. bepinning of " " thf- t:le I;.''- )l.v: CrJ m'H'onairc brewer. There "av" 1 ' 1 '' "t'J,,', ""' ," him l-a, ,d "n ' ore Kile so- E W" a '' " '" llmt lls N mtht profes!"ons wealth K . 8'nt'ss commands respeel "T' prnhl,",i"ri thf re has set-e. set-e. " "' the ; iamou. of a lost p4thi Miss Demarest jilted George Burton because he had been too much of a man-about-town and, as younp men with lots of money will do, had played about on the pay White Way. But the course he steered certainly v,a no wilder than that of the averape rich young Broadwayite, and, aside from the Turkish dinner, only one incident mad it conspicuous. As if quite the usual thing for a younp New Yorker doing his rounding, Georpc Burton is said to have fallen in love with a "Full ios ' girl Miss Martha Mansfield. ( nc of the most fascinating beauties in Mr. Ziepfeld's famous galaxy gal-axy According to the gossip, however, Burton's attentions proved unwelcome to her. Edgar Dudley, n theatrical manager, man-ager, with experience as an amateur boxer, took li upon himself to warn the young millionaire away. When Burton resented this the result was a Alt fight, ripht out on the sidewalk side-walk in front of the theater. Observers reported that for all his 250 pounds of weight and his experience as an army lieutenant George Burton was no match for the fistic skill of the wrathful Mr Dudley The affnir attracted a good deal of attention at the time, but soon it was laughed off as a youthful escapade. Certainly Cer-tainly no memory of that could have lingered lin-gered with distaste in the mind of the fair Miss Demarest. Why should a past with a chorus girl or so in it disturb a New York society girl? No; there surely must be some oilier reason for the shock George Burton received re-ceived a few hours after he had been rehearsing for his wedding, when he was told that his fiancee had stepped down to the Municipal Building arid had married mar-ried a man he had ceased to regard as a rival. And what more likely than that it should have been the gossip about Burton's Bur-ton's famous Turkish dinner which made Misfl Demarest suddenly decide that she preferred another man for a husband? As a matter of fact, very little is known of the details of the affair which long will live in Broadway's memory as "Burton's Turkish blow-out." Probably thf; is why the gossips have woven about it so many fantastic tales. Miss Martha - -. Mcnseld, the stage beauty for love or whom George Burton is said to have fought a thrilling sidewalk battle The dinner was given to celebrate George Burton's twenty-first birthday. One thing i. certain no expense was spared to make it a memorable affair. The food was of the costliest champagne cham-pagne flowed as it can only flow when a millionaire is footing the bills. The guests, all men and all dressed in Turkish Turk-ish costumes, lolled on luxurious divans while alluring girls, it is said, writhed and wriggled in .strange Oriental dances. Those dancers ah, it was ,n them that was centered much of the gossip which is said to have been so disturbing to the one-time fiancee of the host at this gay party! It was whispered that they were clothed only in the scantiest of gauze and that their dances were such as even blase Broadway seldom sees. The notorious Seeley dinner, given by P. T. BamUm's grandson, at which a nude dancing girl emerged from a giant pie, was said to have been completely outdone Whatever the truth about the dinner, it quickly pot n reputation that quite took a person's breath away. The report re-port got abroad that it had been most excitingly naughty. Maybe it was the Oriental atmosphere that did it. The average imagination associates something some-thing devilish with fezes and divans and the rest of the appurtenances of the Turk. At once one begins to think of licentious Arabian nights and harem A ' beauties and concludes that it was indeed "some party." And there is about a stag party something that arouses the worst suspicions of which the feminine mind is capable. Women seem to think that where they are not included in the invitations there must be something dark and devious de-vious going on, something highly questionable. Thus it was that Georgb Burton's birthday party got itself a reputation, probably through no fault of its own. You may be sure that the guests made no great effort to set at rest any of the rumors. ru-mors. After the manner of young men who like to ap- ! pear a great ileal more devil- i ish than they really arc, thev winked slyly and encouraped the belief that there had been all manner of gayety and merriment, They wouldn't go into details, de-tails, but when any one asked about it they would say George "was a gay dog" and had "thrown considerable of a party " To confirm the worst suspicions they would ask one another if they remembered re-membered that 'Snappy little dancer in the green earrings " When Charlotte Demarest announced A , Mis- D n ' .' ' ; - &m f .'.-:' . . 'irthday i vc,,.y sCai 1 t.ns conv; -j - ' ' . ,v2f tj; ing to , i HrerisE jt which fin, M uimBrf"W' f her lc 1 thr w ni W iun1 Zi i Z , The yo f c.vy ' R romant ' ' " ,: ' ampton, I iV)' rest and , ten each s&B&Sr'' S- " i' ?'' the forme .. v an Ameri .--''-ri " , of the Di w$. ' - .-" -ewlSH W : ' : iS I Count Zichy and the bride whom his friend Burton lost her engagement she was distressed to find that to most of her friends her fiance's name carried only one association. associa-tion. "George Burton'.'" they would say. "Goorge Burton? Oh, that's the boy who gave that perfectly dreadful dinner!" din-ner!" In spite of Burton's vigorous" denials, r f The former Miss Charlotte ' Demarest w h c jilted Mr. Burtor . f -.vedding day and r'ed Count Zichy Miss Demarest is said to have it convinced that his pthdny party really was a H very scandalous affair. And this conviction it was, accord-ing accord-ing to Broadway's gossip, which finally turned the scales H ' of her love against him and B ' t H into the arms of Count Zichy. H The young count had spent H a romantic summer at South- H ampton. L. I., with Miss Dema- H rest and they bad not forgotten forgot-ten each other. His mother, '"-the '"-the former Miss Mabel Wright, an American girl, was a friend H of th" Demarest family The H mmno Tiinn had BBSl e r v ed in the Hunparian army and had been for three years a prison er in a Russian prison camp. He had come to this country at the close of the war and made a success suc-cess as a motor car salesman. When the Count and Miss Demarest Dema-rest met again a s go they decided they were me- n Bill'' U j!liBlH each otae; and vll ill III o tcd on that conviction con-viction by getting married at once, her engagement to George Burton notwithstanding. What unlucky young Burton sa id when he heard the news was, "You don't say so! Hell's bells!" And perhaps what he thought was : 1 f : ' "If only I hadnt lv D that Turkish Turk-ish dinner!" Certainly no one can accuse the former I Miss Demarest of being at all mercen- H ary in her choice of a husband. George I Burton is a millionaire, while the Count's I fortune is yet to be made. In fact, the nobleman's honeymoon has been sadly marred by the persistent efforts of one I .' his creditors to collect a few hundred J dollars. j |
