Fair Women

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

Fair Women

YjT/E'RE , hearing great things - of . this vv v Druam of Fair Women . Pageant which .is to. make good ., husbands go 'yrrbfig m the next week or. so. Everybody knows— having : bought buttons, attended dances and so on, m the good, cause- r that there' are to be. half a dozen. Queens, dating back to Cleopatra and leaving' Victoria well 'out of the pictu: Rosy lights and sol; sic are to surround the of each Queen, wh< have her own train of tiers, all gorgeously turned — or, at. least, a geously costumed as ian slaves, who wore leopard , skins m . cold weather, can accurately be represented to be. . The pageant will pass from legendr'.ry times , do -w n through the stately ; Middle Ages, picking vp 1 the choicest flakes of "1 a; s t year's snows" on the way. A water lily pond, a hanging garden, glimmering fountains and swinging lights will add atmm o sphe re. The Town Hall is to be converted into a "Palace of Beauty" ■'■ — what exactly that may mean, we don't yet know, but confidently expect' to find out. • Director Honey, the . man behind the Cupid's arrows, so to speak, promises that every- jj thing is going very well.