OLD-TIME BALL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 263, 30 June 1932, Page 7

OLD-TIME BALL

DANCES OF TWENTY YEARS AGO REMAIN POPULAR IN 1932. A. AND P. ASSN. DANCE.. Jazz was a thing forgotten, gone was the saxophone and in its place the old accordion of yore. We were back in the days of twenty years ago, dancing aloft in the barn, or was it really 1932, and were we really at the Majestic Ballroom. All the dances we used to dance all the old tunes they used to play on the gay old eoncertina. Those of a younger generation who witnessed the old-time dances at the A. and P. Association ball last Thursday evening will, I think, be quite ready to admit that the charm and sentiment attached to the dances of twenty years back is far more poignant than the modern jazz of to-day. To see the lancers the quardrilles, the mazurkas, and D'Alberts danced with such ease by our parents one wonders why it all has been changed for a mere jazz. But then fashions change and dancing is no exception to the rule. But stay; our fashions are gradually but surely going back to the date of twenty or thirty years ago, why not dancing? In a few years, we, too, may be dancing the barn dance, and the polka with as much relish and fervour that we now step the modern jazz. To say the ball was popular would be stating the obvious; it will sufiice to say that there was a record attendance in both the card-room and the ballroom. Mr. Morrison was in great demand with his "accordion" and gave the necessary old-world atmosphere to the music, which was supplied by Epi Shalfoon and his Melody Boys. Included in the programme were two Monte Carlo dances. the winners being Miss Matthews and Mr. R. Lillas. Miss M. McDowell and Mr. E. Tregilgas. The successful players in the card-room proved to be Mrs. Holden and Mr. Pennington. Among the ladies present were. — Mrs. C. Shooter, Mrs. H. Wilkinson, Mrs. E. Armer, Mrs. G. Steele, Mrs. A. Clarke, Mrs. C. Goodson, Mrs. Pennington, Sr., Mrs. C. Managh, Mrs. Moule, Mrs. T. Kelly, Mrs Shearer, Mrs. Holden, Mrs. Isdale, Mrs. H. Winslade, Mrs. B. Fitzgerald, Mrs. T.

I Lindsay, Mrs. W. Donaldson, Mrs. W. j Heley, Mrs. A. Steele, Mrs. W. Steele, j Mrs. S. Brooker, Mrs. J. Buchan, Mrs. j Stewart, Mrs. Dixon, Mrs. Saraty, | Mrs. A. Munro, Mrs. Hodgson, Mrs. ! Monk, sr., Mrs. W. Walker, Mrs. W. : Sherriff, Mrs. W. T. Brown, Mrs. j Spencer, Mrs. Ifitehens, Mrs. Penno, ! Mrs. Manson, Mrs. Weeks, Mrs. W. | Park, Mrs. Talbot, Mrs. Simpson, Mrs. i Callaghan, Mrs. Gleeson, Mrs. M. Morgan, Mrs. Hulton, Mrs. Corbett, Mrs. Fairley, Mrs. Mercer, Mrs. Henderson, Mrs. Libeau, Mrs. W. Brothers, Mrs. Pennington, jr., Mrs , Robinson, Mrs. Pope, Mrs. Carter, Mrs. Land, Mrs. Gustavsen, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. Gillette, Mrs. Deery, Mrs. Queenin, Mrs. Hargraves, Mrs. Carroll, Mrs. Neal, Mrs. Cann, Mrs. McKay, Mrs. Cummings, Mrs. Montgomery, Mrs. Matheson, Mrs. Miller, | Mrs. Gillett. » Miss K. Hall, Miss P. Sinclair, Miss E. Sharpe, Miss D. Hamilton, Miss R. Malcolm, Miss A. Steele, Miss R. Munro, Miss T. Johnson, Miss N. Devin, Miss B. Johnson, Miss M. Bates, Miss M. Hawlcness, Miss R. Lake, Miss M. Ford, Miss V. Snell, Miss N. Snell, Miss F- Prentice, Miss ; P. Wilkinson, Miss R. Ryan, Miss I. Anderson, Miss McDowell, Miss R. Bell, Miss L. Berge, Miss R. Cannell, Miss O. Beamish, Miss M. Trask, Miss J. Martin, Miss Dixon, Miss V. Butler, Miss R. Woolliams, Miss M. Matthews, Miss D. Edwards, Miss O. Edwards, Miss Monk, Miss Greenhead, Miss J. Cottrell, Miss A. Hill, Miss Dodson, Misses Gallagher (2), Miss Greenhead, Miss G. Montgomery, Miss C. Orsler, Miss S. Manson, Miss R. Owens, Miss Munro.