FASHIONABLE DANCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 86, 8 October 1938, Page 18

FASHIONABLE DANCE

PRELIMINARY DINNER PARTY

ATTRACTIVE FROCKS AND

FLOWERS

[ Almost all those who attended the ' dance held at the Mayfair Cabaret \ last night by the Wellington branches of the Woodford House Old Girls' and ■ tlie Wanganui Collegiate School Old 1 Boys' Associations had been to din- : ncr beforehand at the Grand Hotel. • Consequently the dance went with a > swing right from the beginning and there was no time wasted in "breaking ', the ice." ' The dance is held annually and- it is always one of the most fashionable 'of the season. There was a very ; large attendance last night Many ; very lovely frocks were worn, and i the decorations were charming. The t cabaret's divided dance room provided a convenient way of combining the cplours and crests of the two associations, one portion being bedecked with the Old Girls' colours of maroon and white, and the other with the light blue, black, and gold Of,the Old Boys' Association. Even the flowers corresponded as nearly as possible with these two colour schemes. Deep crepe paper fringes hung above, the corner alcove in each room and from the central crystal chandeliers wide streamers radiated to the walls which were adorned with large painted shields bearing the entwined initials of the respective schools. The flowers banked on the dividing partition were lovely. There was a bor* der of fceesias, polyanthus, small black tulips, and grape hyacinths arranged in long green china troughs, and behind were masses of daffodils with a background of red and white camellias. In the supper room there was a similar display. The colours of the two associations were used in flowers and streamers to decorate their respective tables. Hie flowers, were beautifully arranged in baskets and troughs, and streamers were crisscrossed on the tables, A home-made supper was served and throughout the evening liquid refreshments were served in another room. Sprays of flowers were presented at the dinner party to Mrs. Charles Marchbanks^ (president of the Old Girls' Association) and to Mrs. Philip Cooke, whose husband is president erf the. Wanganui Association. Mrs. Marchbanks was wearing a black lacquered satin gown and she pinned her spray to her black evening bag. Mrs. _Cooke wore a dove grey satin picture frock, the bodice being veiled with fine black lace, and her spray was of pink rosebuds and forget-me-nots. Mrs. Marchbanks was a member of the dance committee, which also h> eluded Mrs., lan Ewart, who wore a smart black 'gown,* Mrs. Hamilton J. H. Gilmer, whose frock of prune and gold-shot taffeta had a spray of r&d flowers across the corsage; Mrs. Geoffrey Shirtcliffe, wearing floral crepe . satin with a white ground; Mrs. Peter Grant, who wore a scarlet sash on her gown of white and gold metalasse; Miss Bobbie Hope Gibbons, in blue i chiffon over cyclamen taffeta; Miss Patricia Greenfield Brown, who wore cyclamen chiffon; Miss Tara EvansScott; and Messrs. Philip Cooke,. Barry Blundell, Duff Daysh, R. G. Hunt, W. Littlejohn, D. J. White, Geoffrey : Shirtcliffe, and Hamilton Jf. H. Gilmer. AMONG THE DANCERS, Among others present were GroupCaptain and Mrs. T. M. Wilkes, the Rev. N. F. E. Robertshawe and Mrs. Robertshawe, Mr. and Mrs. John Price, Captain and Mrs. V. G. Webb, Dr. arid Mrs. John Twhigg, Mr. and Mrs. Ken Guy, Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Leicester, Mr, and Mrs. Andrew Todd, Mr. and Mrs. Roderick Fell, Mr. and Mz-s. T. W. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Barry Blundell, Mr, ""and Mrs. Cecil Quane, Dr. and Mrs. John Plimmer, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Brandon, Mrs. Bernard Stott (New Plymouth). Mr. and Mrs. B. Toogood, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Pope, Mr. and Mrs. Ken Mason, Mr. and Mrs. Brian Reid, Mr. and Mrs. Lancelot Herd, Mrs. Elaine Dorgan, Mr. and Mrs, Bernard Johns. Mr. and Mrs. Warwick Blundell, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Bradshaw, Dr. and Mrs. Reay Mackay, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Norwood, Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay Mansfield. Mrs. G. Tringham, Dr. and Mrs. Alan Tennent, Mr. and Mrs. Desmond Todd, Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay Gilmour, Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Webster, Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Bell, Mr. and Mrs. Lackey, Mr. and Mrs. R. T. M. Sutherland, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kirkcaldie, Dr. and Mrs. Tim Williams, Dr. and Mrs, K. Pacey, Mrs. Pettit (Gisborne), Mr. and Mrs. John Gamble, Mr. and Mrs. John Turner, Dr. and Mrs/Frank Bolt; Misses Jean Fenwick, Judy Allen, Violet Hutchison, Myra Gill, Margaret Miles, Valmai and Joan Maudsley, Patricia Gledhill, Paddy Hope Gibbons, Sylvia McLaren, Zoe Tansley, Barbara Blundell, Joan Leary, Margaret yon Dadelszen, June Allison, Barbara Standish, Tara Evans-Scott, Pamela Fell, Phyllis Talbot, Irene Spidy, Marjorie Hutton, Sheila Wellwood, Mollie Rodie, Diana Brodie, Louise Watson, Yvonne Holmes, Colleen Bohan, Audrey May, Susanne Bothamley, Geraldine Litchfield, Elizabeth Plummer, Jill Hayman, Jan Sloman. and Annette Gunn; Dr. Robert Stout, Dr. Lan Ewart, and 1 Messrs. Peter Grant, Dudley Reid, Eric Reeves, John Roberts, Stanley Vinsen, B. Ward • (Levin), B. dv Chateau. Charles Todd, Jack Balharry, Charles Evans-Scott, Kenneth King, Denis Blundell, Tan Graves, John Buckle.on, Norrie McMillan, Geoffrey Colledge, Athol Lawson, John Paul, Cecil Burgess, B. Wylie, Evatt Page (Auckland), Selwyn Toogood, Ken Blair, Arthur Sutherland, Geoffrey and Russell Lon- ■ guet, Don Anderson, R. E. Tripe, and Robin Stanford. .