UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' PROCESSION

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 228, 20 June 1919, Page 9

UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' PROCESSION

AL FRESCO ENTERTAINMENT SETS THE CITY LAUGHING University students have had to repress themselves during the last few years owing to circumstances over which even they had no control. But they broke out yesterday in the form of a weird processional advertisement, for last night's capping ceremolry and the enter'-' taimucut; that is to he held tins evening at the Grand Opera House. .With cheer-, fill, irresponsibility the show, disposed on a number, of. lorries, on horseback, and foot, started from up-tov/n, to the rheumatic music of a crazy, jazz baud, which played "K-k-k-kuty".aua other popular lilts, which were only.faintly r,cognisable at. intervals. Each member of the'band-was camouflaged in false hair and - smudges of primary colour, often displaying,.tho'."sole".of an avti.it. < Following the band was an jipsii. carriage'devoted to "wearers. of tho Order of-- the British Empire, brilliantly capa l-Honed soldiers, weighed down with "breast metal," and a . quizzical law-, ver in a wig and gown.' These were all branded "0.8. E.," and bore Hie. Lon-our-with . becoming 'dignity.' following the carriage was.an "O.'Bilv." travelling buffet, which dispensed' orders lo isny. one in. tho crowd on the slightest j/rovucation. . , ' '_• "Milk.and "Water" represented'a topical burlesque tableau on tho milk i|iiestion. One odd person, who bore a faint resemblanc? to Micawbcr, was labelled "Wbodgnaw; the Milk King" (an -.-bvioiis skit bri Councillor Norwood, chairman of the-Milk. .Committee) and his coadjutor in comedy disported himseli ka "Lu.tewarni. John." A .while-robed, .pink-cheek-ed, baby .about .six ttct inlcngith' was fed.at intervals'by a yellow Arcadian (escaped from sonie early Grecian revue), whilst, high above the driver's head a very.masculine Cupid in ji'izk loosed his arrows, in every'direction. ■'There was also" a strained effort in Hie'form.' of !t U-boat with.a motley crew'of Humush design, One sign that hung over tho port'.bow.i'ead: "Golt Strafe"'Jimmy Allen if ho has riot been strafed-enough already." There '"were"' numerous irinraudi)i(r parties, wlio.would'irisist'oil ; 'iilnym'h -Jang-a-ring-a-lfesy" with the girl:'spectators on '"the sidewalks. ' On. one occasion they sighted an 'enterprising '-Press, photographer, setting up - -his \m : in the centre-of Lambton Quay, 'iinmedij ately io was surrounded■" by a;, mob of dancing students in fancy costumes and made the pivot of a wild'jazz dance, Oiw roughrider, with • mask and'-six-sho-jter, nonchalantly-rode'along.the foot•path on an' "aged' 'halklpftuglit,.- •nn'd peered wickedly.' tho •• windows. of insurance and' otherofTices, to .lhfi deligtit of tho small boys in tho vicinity, there was olso an clongatcd',crocomle, supported by'an army of small boys, .and inaay other "stunts' 4 were perpetrated oetween noOri and' 2 p:(n: A halt was mace in tho 0.P.0; Square, .'where the students showed "a fine facility in raisuiz <i lull head of "hot -air."