Sports Disport

NZ Truth, Issue 1200, 29 November 1928, Page 17

Sports Disport

MUCH sheikhing was to the fore at ■ m .the Joy Night given for Sybil Swinburne, Sports Queen, m the Wellington Town Hall — so-called. Sybil can dance as well as she can run, which is considerable. Three or four maidens arose and gave small exhibitions of high kicking, and a young thing m absinthe green, with girlish curls, clustered at the nape of her neck, seriously endangered the Town Hall chandeliers by the heights to which she rose. An interesting feature of the evening's entertainment was a fencing display given by the pupils of M. Bernet. A dozen oi % so dainty lasses, all dressed up m their little black and white fencing costumes, made fierce assaults on one another' s anatomy, flourished shining blades m the Grande Salute, and m other ways delighted the crowd, from whom arose such murmurs as "I'll ' have threepence on the blonde, both ways." Miss Eieveneaux, who is M. Berhet's 3tar pupil, swung a yery nimble blade m her duel with the fencing master, and, altogether, the display was a bright and original feature of an equally bright and original evening, y