"MAY DAY" DANCE

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 192, 10 May 1940, Page 4

"MAY DAY" DANCE

Blossoms Used For Decorations

Though a discouraging “southerly” prevailed on Wednesday night, St. James’s Hall, Lower Hutt, where a “May Day” dance was held by the senior Bible class girls, presented a very different aspect, and banished any suggestion of the unpleasant conditions without. The hall was gay with pink and white may blossom. Ail the windows were festooned with this emblem of an English spring, and the stage was a bower. In the centre of the floor was a huge green tub of may blossom, set. in a “rocky islet,” blossom adorned the blue tiled mantelpiece, and streamers veiling the lights, completed a gay and original decorative scheme.

The revels reached a climax later in the .evening, when the May Queen, Ruth Stamp, robed gracefully in white georgette, and attended by four maids-in-waiting, Misses Norina Lowe, Sybil Lowry, Laura Hicks, and Betty Lidgett, advanced slowly up the hall. Mrs. Fry delivered the preliminary oration, and called on the “Lord High King of the Revels” (the Rev. 11. E. K. Fry), to place the white floral chaplet on the head of the queen, and crown her “Queen of the May.” The crowning completed a charming and effective little ceremony. Mr. A. Wilson was the master of ceremonies.

Tlie committee comprised Mrs. H. E. K. Fry and Misses Shirley Kay, Joan Burridge, Norma Lowe, Ruth Stamp, Shirley Seddon and Betty Lidgett. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. D. Weddekind, Mr. and Mrs. J. Nash, and Mr. and Mrs. E. Hutt; Misses B. Campbell. S. White, J. Ogilvie, F. Drysdale. G. S'tuart-Forbes, A. Innes, S. and P. Sanders, J. Hutchings. R. Collins, M. Mitcheson, B. Millar, J. Stoupe, E. Clark, J. Lines, 11. Fry, B. Mackisack, J. Collins. B. Troseder, J. Callis, E. Simmons. E. Sutherland. E. Double. J. Walker, P. Huse, F. McKay, E. Clark and C. Burr; Messrs. J. Fry, E. Marshall, J. Orr, V. Okeby. A. Whitcher, B. Ogilvy, G. Scarff, M. Balls, I. and K. Boyd. G. Laury, M. Lusty, H. Jones, J. Mair, P. White, It. Mair, R. Wills, N. Baigent. A. Boyd, J. Nisbet, L. D. Jones, D. Young, M. Pattern. J. White, J. Hunt, and G. Haise.