Louis Veiled Prophet debutante ball is more than a celebrity scandal This may be a uniquely weird St. Louis tradition, but it grew out of a far more prevalent desire to consolidate white economic ...

Powerful men wore the Veiled Prophet mask, like Tom Smith, who was the executive vice president of Monsanto when he was unmasked as part of a protest of the event in 1972.

She had obtained tickets to the ball and managed to sneak past security to approach the Prophet and swipe his mask. ... Love and Beauty at the 123rd annual Veiled Prophet Ball. More than 2,000 ...

The “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” star was Queen of the Veiled Prophet Ball as a teen in 1999. It was founded by a Confederate soldier but its ties to the KKK are tenuous at best.

Each year, one member was secretly chosen to play the Veiled Prophet, whose identity was masked with a literal veil. Members' daughters were often picked as the ball's Queen of Love and Beauty.

What is the Veiled Prophet Ball? The ball has been around in St Louis, Missouri for more than a century — Kemper was its 105th Queen of Love and Beauty in 1999.

During the December 1972 Veiled Prophet Ball, Gena Scott yanked the veil off the Prophet. ... The masked prophet is selected each year from a group of board members to preside over the ball.

The masked prophet is selected each year from a group of board members to preside over the ball. ... During the December 1972 Veiled Prophet Ball, Gena Scott yanked the veil off the Prophet.

ST. LOUIS – The Twitterverse turned its outrage this week to longtime St. Louis resident and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” star Ellie Kemper nearly a quarter century after she was c… ...