GRAND NATIONAL DAY

Evening Post, Issue 37, 12 August 1936, Page 15

GRAND NATIONAL DAY

Sitting with Mr. D. A. Ewen, the president of the Wellington Symphony Orchestra, and Mrs.. Ewen were Mr. and Mrs. T. C. A. Hislop, M. and Madame Leon de Mauny, Mrs. Ramsay, and Dr.! and Mrs. Marchant. . Also noticed in the audience were Mir. and Mrs. W. M. Page, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Strachan, Dr. and Mrs. A. F. Hickey, Mrs. Knox Gilmer, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Pringle, Mr. A. H. Miles, Miss Hilda Miles, Mr. and Mrs. C. Ai Rendle, Dr. and Mrs; Charles Morice,-Miss Constance Morice, " Mrs. R. C. Addison, Mrs. A. H. Bath, Mrs. S. Harcourt, Dr. and Mrs. O. Jacobsen, Dr. and Mrs. Louis Levy, Mr. and Mrs. E. Palliser, Miss Valeric Corliss, Mrs. Gordon Forbes, Lady Gray, Mrs. A. B. Gibbons,' Mrs. Gledhill, Lady Frazer, Mrs. R. O. Chesney* Miss Irvine .Smith, Mrs. Noel Nelson, Mrs. John O'Shea, Mrs. Wood, Mrs. W. F.. Ward and Mr. Bill Ward, Dr. and Mrs. Bruce Rennie, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clabburn, Mr. and Mrs.. Claude Batten, Miss Christie. Mr. Ernest Blundell, Miss Mary Gilmer, Mr. John Jerram, Miss Mollie. Atkinson, Mrs. 'J. Parker, Colonel and Mrs. A. Cowles, Mrs. Charles Levin, Miss Monica Robertson, Mr. Ormond Wilsont Mrs; Fosfcery Handyside, Mrs. Charles Miles, Mr. and Mrs: G. P. H. Davidson, Mr. and Mrs. H. Hardcastle, Mr. and Mrs. Graham Robinson, Signora Dessaules, Mr. and Mrs. 0. Pope, Miss Isla Bristow, Madame Tarbayeff, Mrs. Montgomery Spencer, Mrs. Rana Wagg, Misses Babs Hunter, Joan Fenwick, Nancy Hunt, Messrs. Desmond White, Frank Dougall, and John Roberts.

A number of society girls made very efficient ushers and sold programmes.' They included Mary Knox Gilmer, Betty Ellis, Alison Pearce, Shirley Hopkins, Janet Milev .Patricia . Marshall, Betty, Kirsty, and Eleanor Page. Irene Spidy, Alison Addison, Jessie Elliott, Angela Yeats, Joan Fenwick, Ann Rendle, Josie Doyle, Patricia White, Mary Neave, Valeric Robertson, Esme Whatley, Helen and Mary Thomson, Mary McLean, and Marjorie King. A delightful supper party took place after the concert in the Palm Lounge of the Hotel St. George when Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Ewen entertained Dr. Malcolm Sargent and the members of the executive. .

MUCH ENTERTAINING

Grand National race week entertaining commenced yesterday in Christchurch with numerous parties. Lunch parties at the races, sherry and cocktail parties after the meeting, and dinner parties before the Hunt Club ball in the evening.

Among those who gave sherry parties in the late afternoon was Mrs Sholto Douglas, states the "Star-Sun." Mrs. Douglas invited to her new home in Hanson's Road, Riccarton, a large number of town and country guests, among them being Mr. and Mrs. Marmaduke Bethell, Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Blunden, Mr. and Mrs. E. P. H. Burbury, Mrs. J. Dampier-Crossley and Miss Shona Dampier-Crossley, Mr. and Mrs. Neville le Cren, Mr. and Mrs. H. Acton Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Colin Douglas, Mr. Angus Douglas, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Greenwood, Mr. and Mrs. Oakleigh Greenwood* Mr. and Mrs. George Macdonald, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Douglas, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Martin, Mr. and Mrs.'Denis Chapman, Mr. and.Mrs. H. Chapman,