FANCY-DRESS BALL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 209, 20 September 1937, Page 13

FANCY-DRESS BALL

Waipukurau School Children Hold Annual Dance AN INSPIRING PICTURE

From Our Own Correspondent.

WAIPUKURAU, Last Night. No more inspiring and beautiful picture could be desired than the sight of the hundreds of happy children who attended the annual fancy dress ball of the Waipukurau District High School. The hall was decorated with clusters of royal blue and white balloons, the tall columns supporting the dress-circle being entwined with white heather, which had been sent up from Picton. The front of the stage was festooned with pink and white camellias. In the supper-room the tables were decorated in royal blue and white (the school colours), bowls of blue hyacinths and primroses being used to give the effect. Supper of fruit salad, jellies and other dainties dear to the child's heart was served. The organisation of the ball was the work of Mr V. Parsons, the headmaster, and his staff, assisted by the school committee, of which Mr C. F. Haycock is the chairman, members of the Home and School League and parents. The ball opened with the grand march, led by the infants, followed by the intermediate and senior pupils. The marches were an inspiring sight, with hundreds of children in the gayest of costumes and with the happiest of faces marching in excellent time, Following the grand march, several singing dances were given by the infants, followed by special dancing by Forms 1 and 2 and the high school pupils. the children giving a really splendid exhibition, which indicated much time and patience put into the training by the teachers. The music for the marching and dancing was played by Mrs Collett, Messrs W. Phillips and E. M. Marshall acted as masters of ceremonies. At 10 o'clock the floor was taken by the adults. The following is the list of costumes worn, by the children: - PRIMERS 1 AND 2. Ngaire Arlidge, blue girl Velma Davey, love-in-a mist; Ivy Edmonds, daffodil; Joy Harrington, flag ; Robin Stovell, rosebud ; Berly Gay and Beryl Spencer, Dutcb girls; Joy Radd, pink rose ; Nancy Proudfoof, flower girl ; Joan Browning, ballet dancer ; Nancy Mills, nurse ; Ngaire Williams, fairy ; Ethne Herbert, shamrock; Brian Tinney, Gipsy; John Malkin, and Graham Lunt, soldiers: Billy Sutton, toy soldier ; Syd. Wells, sailor; Clyde Williams, Kate-Greenaway boy ; Robin Monrad and Roberf Harrington, soldiers ; Russell Jones, Dutch boy ; Wallace Cooper, pirate ; Frank Herbert, Period costume ; Brian Hawke, gnome ; Martin Coats, Chinese ; Colin Taylor, cowboy; David Annand, pierrot; Brian Gardiner, Oliver Twist. PRIMER 3, Joan Sanders and Noeline Hunter, gypsies ; Betty Cbappell, elf ; Helen Hubbard, rainbow fairy ; Alison Stoddart, pierrette ; Norma Wilson, fairy ; Betty Kohleis, ballet dancer; Thelma Spotswood, Dutch girl ; Betty Ward, Italian lady; Nancy Taylor, Alice in Wonderland; Isabel Legerwood, Welsh girl; Joy Bucliman, congetti ; Barbara Haldane, Dutch girl ; Quita Elliott, Columbine; Shirley Renner, ballet dancer; Valda Cassidy, Welsh girl; Mary Gore, Chinese; Ronald Hanson, Indian ; Douglas James, pierrot ; Teddy Malkin, Robin Hood; Leslie Edmonds, swagger; Douglas Williams and Leslie Herbert, Red Indians; Alan Barnaby, pirate ; Billy Hall, nigger ; Norman Cooper, painter boy; Leo Peters, bag of flour; Stanley Douglas, Indian; George Williamson, pirate; Derek Tappin and John Dunn, Dutch boys ; Maurice Ross, babe in wood ; Raymond Brooker, Father Christmas ; Lawrence Sayliss, engineer.

PRIMER 4, Nancy Johnson, pixie ; Nola Morton, Welsh girl ; Phyl Ashley and Fay Ashley, ducks ; Lois Bowering, Chinese girl ; Beyerley Dowrick, bee ; Shirley Murray, fairy ; Betty Price, Fiddler, PRIMER 5 Ken Bowiey and Trevor Grant, soldiers; William Grainger, cricketer; Monty Howlett and Alex Peers, clown; Barry James and Brian Jones, Chinese Peter Kendall and Ronnie Taylor, cowboys; Hugh McWilliams, Indian; Edward Peters, swagger ; Alan Pettengell and Robert Spencer, Dutch boys ; Frank Watson, page boy; Jimmy Lum Jack ; soldier ; Douglas Paget, indian; Forbes McKenzie, army officer ; Bobby Phillips, pirate; Douglas Price Pierrot; Martin Weir, Indian cbief; Kathleen Bixley, pirate lady; Valence Coughlan, flower girl ; Joy de Clifford, Maid Marion ; Beverley Gardner, Columbine; Judy Haycock, minuet ; Dawn Marshall, fluerelle ; Jewel Pellow, Bubbles ; Jean Proudfoot and Beverley Salter, flower girls; Ann Steele, Pierrette ; Betty Sutton, night fairy; Ann Coats, ballet girl ; Pat Frederickson, girls and boys. STANDARD 2. John Burgess, Dutch boy; Ernest Edmonds, man ; Peter Price, golliwog ; Raymond Timer, eastern page; Henry Williamson, mechanic; Peggy Chappel, Egyptian ; Heather Christensen, Bo Peep; Joyce Dillon and Ngaere Gore. Chinese girls ; Eva Dunlop and Robin Haycock, pierrots ; Helen Ferguson, Jack-in-the-box ; Hazel Moffatt, Shirley Temple ; Mama Phillips and Joyce White, Welsh girl ; Ray Peters, moonbeam fairy ; Joan Annand. Victorian lady ; Alison Hunter, Elizabethan lady ; Joan Williamson, Madame Pompadour ; Meg Thomson, Japanese lady ; Margaret Taylor, night fairy ; Peggy Cooper, Irish Colleen ; Gwen Haycock and Betty Meredith, pierrettes ; Myra Wadman, Jean Tinney. "Something About," Michael Peacock, Chinese ; Don McLean, Gypsy ; Beth Lunt, Japanese Lady ; prince; Barry Paton, Dutchman ; Barry Elliott, pack of cards; Maurice Bolton and Charles Etlmonds, cowboys ; Meryn

Malcolm Gilchrist and Derry Hansen, cowboys ; Henry Price, Sapta Claus; Davis, soldier; George Kohleis, Indian; Michael Brathwaite, Mexican bandit ; Harold Stoddard, clown; John Stovell, Rajah ; Bobbie Williamson, pixie; Thelma Abrahams, Jean Batten ; Girvan Cassidy, Mexican; Dorothy Daily, Bo Peep; Ngaire Hill, flower girl ; Mar-. garet Nicol, rabbit; Vera Paget, pierrotte; Heather Scott, Chinese girl; Joyce Thomson, Ruth Weir and Joy Williams, Japanese girls. STANDARD 3 Nola Green, Ialian Peasant girl ; Margaret Lansdowne, Scotch Thistle ; Betty Agnew, Irish girl ; Ngaire Jones, pierrette; Betty Spencer, Gipsy ; June Allen, evening press ; Grace Steel, soldier; Evelyn Pettengell, flower girl; Edna Peters, mixed sweets, Pearl Watts, Dolly Varden ; Mavis Weir, nurse ; June Hall, BoPeep; Tom Spencer, P.C.D. ; John Taylor, clown; Nicholas Fisher, old man ; Trevor Hill, Victorian boy ; Bryant Fergusson, Chinese ; John Brown, wood elf; Bruce Bousfield, huntsman. STANDARD 4. Melva White, night; Dora Ashley, shamrock ; Nita Bennett, sailor boy ; Miriam Christensen, maid Marian ; Dorothy Gideon, sky fairy ; Audrey Hurdsfield, mid-Victorian ; Joycelyn James, frivolity; June Johnson, Indian girl ; Irene Lee, shepherdess ; Kathleen Lucas, Alice in Wonderland ; Ruth Henderson, gipsy ; Jane Lum Jack, witch ; Joan McLaggan, old-fashioned lady ; Isobel Munro, Mexican girl ; Rae Paton, Dutch girl ; Joan Price, Gypsy ; Noeline Sutton, cottage window; Valerie Taylor, Egyptian lady ; June Waters, Coronation bells ; Sheila Walker, skating girl ; Theresa Weir, Spanish senorita ; Josie Walker, Austrian Tyrolese ; Joan Turner, rainbow cocktail ; Muriel Piddens, "Buy British Goods ;" Jim Brown, Nigger; Jack Clarke, cricketer; David Fryer and Brian Gray, rajahs ; Geoffrey Hubbard, pierrot ; Douglas King, Venetian officer ; Fred Lucas, tennis player ; Derek McCoskery, French peasant ; Courtenay McLean, prince ; Desmond Price, sailor ; Paul Salter, pierrot ; Francis Sayliss, cricketer. FORM. 1, Thelma White, Welsh dancer ; Elva de Clifford, dairy-maid ; Lena Rayner, Hungarian maid ; Ena Ludvigsen, Columbine ; Margaret Gideon, patchbag ; Joan Staines, pierrette ; Valda Hurdsfield, mid-Victorian ; Ngaire Tate, Plantagenet period; Jean Dilworth, Italian peasant ; Kathleen Johnston, Gypsy ; Margaret Lee, Japanese lady ; Joan Moran, Cameo lady ; Norma Thomson, Spanish girl ; Barbara Tinney, grandmama's day ; Thelma Dunlop, minuet frock ; Molly Dilworth, flower girl ; Dorothy Lunt, pink rose ; Mae Ebbett, Mediaeval princess ; Gwen O'Connor, Irish colleen ; Eva Richards, sign service ; John Fergusson, jockey ; Leslie Grant and Gavin Gardner, tennis players ; Fred Gibson and Roy Tocker, cricketers ; Renwick Seater, Mexican; Colin Bolton, pirata; Bernard Dowrick, Tommy Atkins. FQRM 11. Judith Agar and Roberta Hurdsfield, mid-Victorian ; Isabel Frazer, Spanish girl ; Dega Kohleis, military girl ; Margaret Sutton, toothpaste ; Violet Marton, gypsy ; Evelyn Halford, Irish lass ; Shirley Coughlan and Jean Johnston, bridesmaids ; Marian Turner, Grecian maid ; Melva Peters, modern lady ; Dorothy Gibson, skipping girl; Jean Young, daffodil ; Kathleen Hubbard, Highland lassie ; Margaret Moore, Japanese ; Velma Hill, bird ; Fay Ward Gypsy ; Verna Peters, patchwork ; Terence Lachan, lady ; John Davey, Cossack; Bill Watson, Cricketer ; Harry Gair, Mexican. FORM III Doreen Williams, Hungarian peasant; Gwitha Pendray, Russian peasant; Gypsy Browne and Margaret Dowrick, Chinese girls ; Jessie Lum Jack, old-fashioned lady ; Shona Bell, old English lady ; Patricia Parsons, Queen of Hearts ; Betty McRae, Gypsy ; Enid Groves, Gypsy; Peggy Malkin, Sunshine Sue. FQRM 4. Laurie Thorburn, tap dancer ; Nancy Ward, peasant ; Joan Ashley, Gypsy ; Jim Norris, Spaniard. SCHOOL BAND. The following were in the school band: Jim Thorburn, Phil Stoddart, John Stoddart, Tom Johnston, Rod Chisholm, Clive Warren, Alf Howlett, Henry Price, Jack Tinney, Lawrence Tayjor, Don Robertson, Ray Howlett, Bob Johnston.