PUBLIC TRUST BALL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 261, 31 July 1919, Page 2

PUBLIC TRUST BALL

HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL GATHERING. The Town Hall presented a brilliant appearance last evening, when the annual stall' ball of tho Public Trust Office took place there. Like many other events of -a similar naturo, this ball had been suspended during the war . period, and now" that people aro showing a greater zest than ever for dancing, it was a foregone conclusion that if would be very largely attended, and would prove to be thoroughly successful from every point of view. Tho decorations were somewhat similar to thoso of the toco ball, the hall being enclosed with a canopy of crimson and white drapery, alternating with ropes of lj-copodinm and artificial flowers, starred with tiny coloured electric lights, while the outside of the gallery was draped with double festoons of 'blue and white and crimson and white ttreamers, caught up in many places with scarlet and black discs. The spaeo underneath was partitioned into alcoves, each one complete in itself, carpeted and furnished with armchairs and ehesterflold6, ana decorated with palms and flowers. Above each alcove was hung the Hag of an Ally. Supper had been arranged in tho corridor upstairs, numbers of email tables having been dx:otat«l 'with spring flowers, The committee responsible for the arrangements comprised Mrs. Masters, the Misses Proutiug, M'Donnell, Beamish, Israel, M'lnerney, Messrs. Douglas, Scott, Tattle, Goyder, Barr, Dalt/ra, Mulliolland, and Jl'Donald. Tho joint secretaries were (Miss M'ln</rney and Mr. D. M'Donald. The chaperons were Mrs. Russell, Mrs. Triggs, Mrs. Ronaldson, Mrs. Mac Donald, and Miss Barnett. Talcing part in the. official Bet were Mrs. Ronaldson, who was dancing with Mr. MaoDounld, Mrs. Triggs and Colonel G. F. C. Campbell, Miss Kitohing and Mr. Barnett, Mrs. Mac Donald and Mr. Bretherton; Mrs. und Mr. King, Miss Moon and Mr. Barnett, Miss Turton and Mr. Roberts. Among others who wero present at the ball were Miss Barnett, wbo was wearing black charmeuso and beaded net; Miss Lyra Taylor black' chiffon taffetas; Miss Russell, crimson crepe do chine, with a. swatn«d belt of Wedgwood blue satin; Miss G. Russell, white gcorgottr and satin; Mrs. Bannister, buttercup satin draped vitb tulle and swathed bodice of black velvet i Miss M'lnerney, geranium pink frock of silk and tulle with touohes of blue; Mrs. Masters, black with silver trimming; Miss Beamish, poach pink «lk draped with goorgette; Mi6s Israeli, palest pink georgette ornamented with black velvet flowers; , Miss Pi-outing, white georgette and silk; Mrs. Zachariali, paiest' pink;.embroidered georgette and lace; Miss M'Enernay, heliotrope crepe do chine; Miss Higgle, black silk; Miss Jennings, lenion-colournd georgette and silk; Miss Moon, black beaded-net overchaTineuso with deep "swathed belt of blue; Mrs. Roberts, black lace draped over white satinj Mrs. G. Nathan, cherry-coloured brocade patterned' with silver and draped with black tullo; Miss Brown, white 'georgette over satin; Miss Mackersey, lemon coloured frock of striped ninon; Mrs'. 0. Simms, blaok ninon relieved with gold; Mrs. D. Bridge, black charmouse; Mrs. Midlane, black and silver frock; Miss Quereo, pale pink charmeuso and tullo; Mrs. Rhodes, Wedgwood blue clianueuse, draped with georgette, and bodice of- embossed brocade in deeper tones of blue; Mws Tins ton, emerald green charmeuso and 1 tulle; Miss Rita' Moss, frock of pink frilled tulle; Miss Muir, black frock draped with silver threaded lace; Misg M'Keowen, biscuit coloured oropo do chine, with touches of blue; Miss Montgomery, .geranium coloured' charmeuso, draped .with gold threaded lace; .Mrs. Cane, ' black, with touches of emerald green; "Miss' G. Tingoy, white georgette ■and lace'; Mrs. V. Haughton, dark 'blue ■channelise, draped with ninon. of the 'same shade; Miss Morico, cream and gold; Miss M. Fulton, white ninon; Miss Haybittle, palest pink silk, draped with tulle and caught, with tiny roses; Mrs. Hemptou, whito satin and pearl embroideries; Miss Evelyn Myers, mauve crepe de chine; Miss M. Myers, lemon erepe de chine; Miss Willcoeks, white satin; Miss ]). Willcoeks, emerald green charniouse; Miss Low, whito brocade; also Miss Rennie, the Misses La Roche'(2), E. Cattell, Hould, Campbell, Edwards, BrookeTaylor, Mrs. Turnor,'Mrs. T.'King, Mrs. W. S. M'Gowan, the Misses' Ross (3), Mrs. Moore, Mrs. Mackersey, and many others. Two debutantes of the evening were Miss' Melville, who was wearing white georgette over crepe de chine,' trimmed with tiny pink roses; and Miss Meadows, in whito georgette and satin, trimmed with- pearly embroideries, On Saturday afternoon, commencing, at .2.15, tho Commercial Travellers anil Warehousemen's Association - are haying a children's day to commemorate peace. An announcement appears in this issue.