Gena Scott, Phyllis Knight, and Jane Sauer (née Gottlieb) dressed in evening gowns and entered the ball, sitting in a high balcony reserved for unimportant friends.[16] Knight's actions that evening are unknown,[16] but Sauer is known to have crossed the auditorium and thrown leaflets from an upper balcony while screaming "Down with the Veiled Prophet!"...

...Lucy Ferriss, one of the debutantes seated on stage that night whose aunt, Ann Chittenden Ferriss, was the 1931 Queen of Love and Beauty, wrote about the events and interviewed Sauer and Scott for her memoir Unveiling the Prophet: The Misadventures of a Reluctant Debutante. Ferriss noted that her date, a young Jewish man that she brought specifically to scorn the Veiled Prophet's racist views, clapped as everyone else sat stunned, as he assumed it was all part of the show.[2]

Wasn't black people.