ATRACTIVE FROCKS WORN AT "LABURNUM GROVE"

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 59, 2 December 1937, Page 12

ATRACTIVE FROCKS WORN AT "LABURNUM GROVE"

Attractive frocks were worn in the Napier Kepertory Players' production of "Labumum GTOvef'3 the clever comedy by J. B. Priestley, which was presented "at the Eoresters ' Hall last night. The curtain rises on the living-room of Eadfern's House, at Laburnum Grove, in Shooters' Green. Dark furniture and cream coloured walls gave a very pleasing eft'ect. Shedding a soft. glow in one corner was a pink shaded standard lamp, while a table covered with an exquisite lace cloth, on which supper had been set, was to be seen m another corner, and the window was daintily curtained with marquisette net. The daughter of the house, Elsie Eadfern, played by Pat Baker, made her first appearance in a shell pink frock of silk linen with short sleeves and trimmed with navy buttons and a navy suede belt. She wore a petrel blue silk dressing-gown over her white pyjamas in the early morning scene, following which she appeared in an attractive silk frock patterned in blue and pink, over which was worn a short tailored coat of white pique and a peaked white halo hat. In the final act Miss Baker wore a gay little floral silk frock with very short pufEed sleeves, and a fiowing royal blue sash. Mrs Luey Baxter was played by Eileen Cahill, and for her first appearance shc wore a floral cloque With large puffed sleeves and a spray of natural flowers at the throat. For her next appearance she wears a dark blue dressiug gown. patterned in rftd and white, and for her final appearance she wore an attractive tunic suit of ^ selfstriped marocain in titian rust with a felt hat to tone and a brown fur stole. A smart black cloth coat with a large musquash collar was worn by Mrs Dorothy Eadfern, played by Freda O'Connell. Her black frook was trimmed with a faggotted vestee and roll collar of white_, a tiny whit.e frill diagonally trimming the short puffed sleeves, Eor her second appearance she wore a pink smock patterned in white, with short sleeves and a long roll collar of white organdie. Iu the final scene she wore a model en'semble of black georgette with a breton sailor hat of black straw, and a stone inartea tur neeklet. Her gloves and handbag were of white suede.

Among tnose present were: « Mrs W. G. Wood, Dr. and Mrs F. N. Harvey, Mr and Mrs W. A. Whitlock, Mr and Mrs E. Eickard, Mr and Mrs A. B. Hurst, Mr and Mrs P. Martin, Mr and Mrs E. B. Chadwi.ck, Mr and Mrs Ian. Hennah, Mr and Mrs Hunter; Mesdames J. Leahy, E. Pilson, M. Bee, J. Bernau, K. Boswell. G. F. Gardiner, E. Chesney, H. Douglas, A. Biggs, E. Loten, A. Eetemeyer, A. E. Bedford, H. Ellerm, U. Williams., senr.. A. E. Denholm E. Carter, S. Truda/ Swanseger, W. E. Anderson, M. Spriggs, Hamlin, Bradley, G. Madigan, W. Hannah, H. Jamea, S. Spiller, M. Poley, W. McKain; Misses U. . Williams, Pasley, J. Cunningham, H. Bernau, G. Eussell, E. Lopdell, Hurst, M. Bryant, Nield, E. Munroe, Cray, E. Briaseo, E. Hamlin, O'Connell (2), J. Swanseger, T. Williamson, M. Bayley, Y. Clark, Greenfield (2), Montgomery. Q. Corbett, Jaines, Carter, Barnes, E. Wilson, D. Prewitt, Smith, C. Carroll, Y. Corbett, Moss (2); Messrs J. W. Cargill, W. Whishaw, M. McQuillan, Mitchell, T. Eeaney, A. Eenouf, U. Williams, Newton, Eev. Nield, s! Hannah.