The Press: Ball

/ went to the animal fair;

The birds and beasts were there. The big baboon by the light of the moon Was combing his auburn hair. The monkey, he got drunk And sat on the elephant's trunk. . . .

"I went to the Ritz. People of importance were there. But I wrote no story, for it was a ball in honor of such as me." So said many a young woman, clever with her typewriter, as she removed her satin slippers early one morning last week. She had come home from the sixth annual ball of the New York Newspaper Women's Club at the peerless Ritz-Carlton,

Manhattan. She had swirled among Major General Charles Pelot Summerall, Rear Admiral Charles Peshall Plunkett, Bernarr Macfadden (Graphic). Herbert Bayard Swope (World), Will Hays, Tex Rickard, Charles Michael Schwab, Otto Hermann Kahn, William Randolph Hearst, Alexander Pollock Moore (U. S. Ambassador to Peru and new owner of Daily Mirror), Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, David Belasco, Mr. Smith (Trader Horn), Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, Ruth Elder, Kathleen Norris, the McCarthy sisters, others, including President Emma Bugbee of the New York Newspaper Women's Club.