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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Feb 11, 1897

Page

5

Society Gala Reveals Marie Antoinette Fashion Night

Guests arrive at the Waldorf for a grand masquerade style ball with Marie Antoinette era costumes and priceless jewels. Mrs. Bradley Martin hosts with her $150,000 necklace as Victor Herbert’s Orchestra plays while a vigilant police detail keeps watch outside.

Bradley Martin Martin

Elaborate 19th Century Ball Attire On Display At Hotel Ball

Guests arrived in rich costumes such as Marie Antoinette and Elizabethan gowns with diamonds and pearls. Security was tight with about fifty uniformed officers and a cordon of plainclothes detectives surrounding the hotel block. Crooks kept away as police presence deterred crowds and potential trouble.

Hanley Captain Chapman Cronin San Francisco Chicago New Orleans Wash Albany Mr. Martin Lord Townsend Martin Cornell van Rensselaer Lansing Prynen Corning Boston John T. Thayer Henry VIII Mrs. Rollins Morse Lawrence Hutton C. X. McLanahan Washington Harvard C. T. Ware Count Vines Duke of Guise Mme. de Fraynsac Stewart Brice George Washington Mrs. Brice Catherine de Medici Frank Andrews Louis XVI Alice Rochester Bradley Martin Cushing Stetson Duke d’Alencon Henri de Sibour Elizabeth Miss Ethel Davies Bradley Martins

Moet & Chandon Dominates Bradley Martin Ball

At the Bradley Martin fancy dress ball in New York on February 10, champagne importers faced a large tasting of 400 unmarked samples. Qualified judges selected Moet & Chandon as the best, the sole champagne served at the event amid a competition exceeding half a million dollars in cost.

New York Bradley Martin Moet & Chandon

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