midnight
`` Through an acquaintance who introduced her to Karatoff and the rest . Carita Belleville , the dancer , you know ? '' Kennedy glanced at me and I nodded that I had heard of her . It was only a few nights before that I had seen Carita at one of the midnight revues , doing a dance which was described as the `` hypnotic whirl , '' a wild abandon of grace and motion . Carita Belleville had burst like a meteor on the sky of the `` Great White Way , '' blazing a gorgeous trail among the fixed stars of that gay firmament . She had even been `` taken up '' by society , or at least a certain coterie of it , had become much sought after to do exhibition dancing at social affairs , and now was well known in the amusement notes of the newspapers and at the fashionable restaurants . She had hosts of admirers and I had no doubt that Mrs. Gaines might well have fallen under the spell of her popularity .