2 or 3 things I know about her

"I knew a lady, name was Peggy Bry, she used to live at 213 Basin Street. Well, anyhow, Miss Bry gave ball for the bitches in the downtown district at the Entertainer's cafe, and she said she didn't want no uptown whores there. All them gals was dressed to kill in silks and satins, and they had all their mens dressed up too, that was goin' to be some ball. We heard about it long before. So, we figures and figures how we could go and show them whores up with our frocks. I told all my friends to get their clothes ready and to dress up their mens, 'cause we was goin' to that ball."

"Everybody got to gettin' ready buyin' up some clothes, Sam Bonart was askin' the mens what was the matter, and Canal street was lookin' up at us niggers like we was the moon. We was ready, I'm tellin' you. I figures and figures, so, I figures what we would do. I got hold of a Captain, the baddest dick on the force, and I tells him what was what, I tells him a white whore is givin' a ball for niggers and didn't want us to come. He says, 'is it a public hall?' And I says it is. He tells us to get ready to do our stuff and go to that ball. You see, the Captain knows we is in a war with them downtown bitches, me, I figures he was kiddin', so I went to him and told him if he'd come downtown with us I'd give him a hundred dollars. He says, sure he would."

"Child, we got the news around for the gals to get ready, and was they ready! Is the sun shinin'? It was Monday night and Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five and Buddy Petit was gonna be playin' at the ball. We called up Geddes and Moss and hired black limousines. You know them whores was livin' their lives! All the houses was shut down, and the Captain was out there in front. I'm tellin' you when that uptown brigade rode up to the Entertainers' cafe, all the bitches came runnin' out. Then they saw the Captain and they all started runnin' back inside. We just strutted up and filed in and filled the joint. I'm tellin' you, that was somethin'!"

"The first thing I did was to order one hundred and four dollars worth of champagne, and the house couldn't fill the order and the band starts playin' "Shake That Thing," and dedicates it to me. This white bitch, Miss Bry, comes runnin'' up to me and says, 'look here, this is my party for my friends!' I says, 'Miss Bry, I'm, the one showed you how to put silk teddies on your tail. Who is you? What's you racket?' Then the captain walks up, lookin' hard, and he says: 'Miss Bry, you ain't got no right in this public dance, if you don't shut your trap, I'll pull you in.' Man, would you keep quiet? Well, that's what she did."

"One of my gals, I think it was Julia ford, got up on a table and started shakin it on down. We took off all her clothes, and the owner of the place started chargin' admission to come in to the dance, Miss Bry raised particular hell about this, then went on home. We broke up that joint for true. The Entertainers ain't never seen a party like that one."

"Let me tell you, and this ain't no lie: every girl with me had no less than one hundred dollars on her, we called that the hundred- dollar party, say, niggers was under the tables tryin to find the money we was wasting on the floor. I remembers one nigger trying to tear my stocking open to get at my money till my man hit him over hid head with a chair, and that nigger went to the hospital. 'Course it all ended in a big fight and we all went to jail."