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A2 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH NEWS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1999 postnet.comnews This prophecy isn't veiled: king lives on ST LOUS POSTTOfWCH 900 North Tucker Blvd. St. Louis, 63101-1099 Today's Index Business C1 Movie times E9 Classified F1 Obituaries B5 Commentary. B7 NationWorld A6 Editorial B6 Reviews El.3,5 Everyday El Sports D1 Metro B1 Television E10 BEHIND THE SCENES: Ex-colleague Peter Hernon, now an editor with the Chicago Tribune, once I called St.

Louis Veiled Prophet "the King of High Society." And, for many years, that was true if Cone did not quibble too much about definitions. The mysterious and majestic ruler of the mythical king-1. dom of Khorassan, his visage and identity veiled in I Byzantine splendor, has been recruited like atomic from among the region's homogenous stock of male and white elites since the late 1870s. (314) 340-8000 or (800) 365-0820 Switchboard hours: M-F 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Charles 946- U.SAwrtd news 340-Newstips 231- utante ball, held at the downtown Adam's Mark Hotel I during the honorees' holiday JClly breaks from college, remains To I 1 -i- I ii Prophet's historical grandeur Mger and celebrity. Speaking of Fair St. Louis, this columnist sat in on the initial meetings of its forerunner, the V.P. Fall Festival (or Fair), hatched by the late Stanley Good Advertising Classified 621-6666 340-8664 Retail 340-8500 340-3140 Get Out 340-8587 340-3141 Death notices 340-8600 Job hot line Circulation For home delivery, missing papers, delivery questions, am-6 pm, Sat. 7 pm; Sun.

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CORONATION: In past years, the annual introduction of the 1 female and white Court of Love and Beauty and the crowning of the "top deb" as its queen has graced some of the city's most lar venues, including the long-gone Coliseum, the old Kiel Auditorium and the Khorassan Room of the Chase Hotel. At this year's event, Veiled Proph et Rusty Hager placed a beplumed, platinum ban deau on the carefully coiffed head of Elizabeth Claire JAMIE RECTORPOST-DISPATCH Elizabeth Claire Kemper, the 1999 Veiled Prophet Queen of Love and Beauty, speaks with pages Katy Angevine (left), 8, and Jacqueline Probst, 7, before going on stage Thursday night to accept her crown. Princeton freshman is the '99 Veiled Prophet queen Kemper. Bred up to her pearls in the Prophet's tradition of good manners, good works and good stock tips, Elizabeth Kemper was a top scholar and athlete at John Burroughs High the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Edward T. Noland. She attended Mary Institute-Country Day School and is a teacher's assistant at Ladue Chapel Nursery School. Hager, 19, the second special maid, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Charles C. Hager. She is a student at the University of Montana. Shelton, 19, the third special maid, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Reuben A. Shelton. She is a graduate of Gateway Institute of Technology and was an All-State basketball player and a Post-Dispatch scholar athlete. She's on the dean's list at St. Louis University.

Capps, 19, the fourth special maid, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Capps. She's a graduate of Villa Duchesne High, attended Indiana University and is transferring to Vanderbilt Atwood, 19, the fifth special maid, is the daughter of Frederick H. Atwood III and Holly Stolz Atwood.

She is a graduate of Whitfield School and is majoring in art and psychology at Lewis Clark College in Portland, Ore. daughter of the late Brig. Gen. and Mrs. John R.

Jannarone and Mr. and Mrs. James M. Kemper. David Kemper is chairman and chief executive of Commerce Bank and Commerce Banc-shares James Kemper is a Kansas City banker.

A 1998 graduate of John Burroughs High School, Ellie Kemper was a National Merit Scholarship finalist. She is an accomplished athlete, in track and field hockey. She made All-State in both sports and was co-captain of the 1997 Missouri state championship field hockey team. Her interests include running and musical theater. She's also done volunteer work with the St.

Louis Crisis Nursery, Aim High and Habitat for Humanity. This year's court of special maids includes Laura Elizabeth Noland, Alexa Augusta Hager, Christan Elizabeth Shelton, Elizabeth Capps and Kather-ine Stolz Atwood. Noland, 19, the first special maid, is By John M. McGuire Of the Post-Dispatch Elizabeth Claire "Ellie" Kemper, 19, the 1999 Queen of Love and Beauty, was crowned Thursday night at the Veiled Prophet Ball in the Promenade Ballroom at the Adam's Mark Hotel. Kemper is the 105th young woman to be so honored by the Veiled Prophet organization.

She wore a white satin square-neck gown designed by Toma-sina and purchased at Saks Fifth Avenue. A freshman at Princeton University, Kemper is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Kemper. She is the grand Postnet.com is the definitive online guide to living In Metro St.

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Friday's Big Game jackpot is estimated at $33 million. MISSOURI Daily Pick-3 game Thursday's winning number 464 Daily Pick-4 game Thursday's winning number 5775 Thursday's Show Me 5 game Winning numbers 14-17-23-28-29 Saturday's Lotto jackpot is estimated at $2.1 million. ILLINOIS Thursday's Pick-3 Daily game Midday drawing 780 Evening drawing 494 Thursday's Pick-4 game Midday drawing 2003 Evening drawing 6440 Thursday's Little Lotto game Winning numbers 04-09-11-18-29 Wednesday's Little Lotto game Winning numbers 03-10-18-25-29 Wednesday's Little Lotto winners: First Prize winners: Players matching five numbers 6 ($200,000 jackpot, $13,741.50 for each winner.) Second Prize winners: Four numbers matched 340 (Each will get $172.) Third Prize winners: Three numbers matched 7,493 (Each will get $5.) Wednesday's Lotto game Winning numbers 01-03-20-27-32-43 First Prize winners: Queen Elizabeth, a brainy alum of John Burroughs, was paced through her royal court by William H.T. i "Bucky" Bush, the brother of a U.S. president.

The new queen's secular dynasty is headed by her pop, David Kemper, prez and CEO of Commerce Banc-shares. In addition to a common interest in the new queen, Bush and the senior Kemper share an inter-, est in the Missouri Botanical Garden. Kemper replaced Bush as the garden's chairman last year. FROM THE SIDELINES: "If you live long enough, see changes," philosophized Martin Mathews of the Mathews-Dickey Boys Club. "In the 1950s I was a chauffeur driving guests to the VP Ball.

Now, I'm ready for the 21st century." Mathews was to walk special maid Christian Elizabeth Shelton. New this year at the ball were slated to be a boa constrictor and a falcon to entertain guests, courte-''. sy of Steve Shankman. "He wanted to promote the Zoo," said oboe player Jan Parkes, who arrived with cellist Aileen Friedel and violinist Andy Driscoll. Among the mirth-making members of the Krewe in masquerade, directing guests to the ballroom, were Dan Abel, Jim Goessling and Paul Ross.

They greeted the likes of 13-year-old Jamie Corley with her grandparents, Shirley and James Hullverson; John Warren and Christopher Stokes, who rushed into the lobby with a handful of rented formal attire; Julie Boehne of Anheuser-Busch, who sat patiently in the cocktail lounge with her cell phone waiting to 'hear from my date, Jerry Mark and I Karen Homan; expatriate John Ansehl, who winged in from Chicago where he is a designer, to see his niece, Lauren Bade, walk; Mike and Lee Ross with daughters, Trey and Molly; Sarah Badler with Kendall Krumenacher, Ryan Hanley, Meredith Awlward and Katie Littlefield; Joe and Blanche Touhill, the chancellor of the University of Missouri-St. Louis; Julie Clark, Megan Crane, Danny Burks and Brent Powers; Bill and Ruth Franke with their daughter, Courtney; Gene and Carol Cohen Levin with their son, Daniel; Bettye Johnson; Eugene Mackey; and Bill Bopp with his godchildren, Tory and Whitney Key. Edwin and Lenore Pepper and Marlene and Bob Left-on opted for an early dinner at Faust's, the fine dining room of the Adam's Mark. "We couldn't wait until 11 p.m.," confided Lenore. Nor could about 200 other VP guests booked a block away at Tony's.

Many ordered Vince Bommarito's grouper with gnoc-chi and risotto with white truffles. But, for the 1,350 guests at the Queen's Supper, Joseph Driver supervised the preparation of tenderloin of beef with mushroom cap, shrimp with a rosemary spear and milk chocolate towers with caramel. Janice LoPiccolo Hawk, a former dancer, arrived with her daughter, Heather, to make sure the 13 pages handled their chores properly during the processional. "They've been rehearsing since October," said Hawk, who was a page 40 years ago. James and Carol Schneithorst were on hand to see their daughter-in-law, Penny Schneithorst, walk.

"I walked six times and they put me to rest mandatory retirement," said Carol with a wink. compiled by Harry Levins Post-Dispatch Senior Writer fifth-longest running Broadway show ever, after "Cats," "A Chorus Line," "Oh! Calcutta" and "Les Miz" The year's best-selling album? It's a 10-million-copies tie between Britney Spears' "Baby One More Time," and the Backstreet Boys' "Millennium." Next are Shania Twain's "Come on Over" (9 mil) and Ricky Martin's "Ricky Martin" (6 mil) The Rolling Stones are the decade's touring champs, playing 333 shows (307 sold out) and raking in $750 mil, says Amusement Business mag the Army. Instead, she wowed our boys on her just-ended Christmas tour of Balkans bases. How? "I unzip myself out of my flight suit and am wearing what I would describe as a second-skin red dress. A little tiny red negligee of a dress.

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