DELIGHTFUL FROCKS IN “THE CASSILIS ENGAGEMENT”

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 95, 13 July 1927, Page 4

DELIGHTFUL FROCKS IN “THE CASSILIS ENGAGEMENT”

The frocks worn last evening in the premiere of “The Cassilis Engagement.” the play by St. John Hankin that was so successfully produced by the Little Theatre Society, were extremely smart and chic, without exception, and of unusual beauty for an umateur production. Tn the first act. Mrs. M. M. McCalm. as Mrs. Cassilis, wore a charming own of French grey georgette with a long sleeveless tunic of rose and green floral crepe de chine, in which large roses gave a striking note of colour to the design. Among the other charming gowns she wore was a particularly attractive model of eau de nil georgette exquisitel3 r trimmed with long vertical bands of golden sequins and gold embroidery. A loose panel at one side was prettily trimmed with a band of soft fur. • A simple, smart morning frock was expressed in grey and white striped crepella, while another charming gown worn by Mrs. McCallum was of floral crepe de chine in tones of wisteria and white. Mrs. W. H. Parkes, as the Countess of Reneham, wore a particularly striking gown of black crepe faille for her first appearance. Its sole ornament was a buckle of brilliants catching the tiered skirt drapery, and with it she wore a handsome large diamond brooch and a single rope of pearls. Her panne velvet hat was effectively trimmed with a black osprey plume and her long skunk stole lent an attractive finish to a distinctive toilette. On her second appearance she wore a smart tailleur of grey tweed, with a hat to tone trimmed with green and flame feathers that accentuated the note of green and flame in her scarf and large flat handbag. Mrs. Goodfellow, as Lady Marchmont, appeared first in a smart tailored suit of oyster grey repp with a high crowned hat of lemon shade and a jumper to tone. Her morning frock of pale buttercup yellow crepe de chine was daintily trimmed with drawn thread work, as was another effective little frock of white crepe de chine. Mrs. Goodfellow wore a charming gown of palest leaf green georgette, exquisitely encrusted with sparkling sequins for the evening scene. Graceful bead fringes added a chic finishing touch to this alluring frock. Miss Eleanor Miller, as the mouselike Mabel, naturally had no striking gowns to wear, though she succeeded in looking the “perfect lady” that Mabel’s part demanded in her trim little coat and skirt of navy and white checked material, worn with a white hat and white jumper. Essentially neat and correct was Miss Miller, too, in her riding habit and her simple little morning frocks and coral pink dinner gown. Miss Beryl Nettleton, as Ethel, the thorn in the side of the aristocratic Cassilis crowd, wore some charming little frocks . . . and some that were not quite so charming. A slim little frock of black crepe faille was simplicity itself yet ever so becoming, with its inset vest of beige crepe lightly touched with dark embroidery and its quaint little slashed cuffs. Scarlet georgette was elaborately encrusted with crystal sequins and beads to provide Ethel with a dinner frock worthy of Mrs. Borridge’s daughter. Mrs. Borridge, as portrayed by Miss Ethel Rae, was a joyous creature to gaze upon. Apart from her delicious characterisation, her frocks were simply shrieks ... or to be quite modern . . . “hoots.” In a dazzling dust coat of white crash and an awesome scarlet hat trimmed with a perilously perched red. red rose, she made her first appearance. Round her neck was a wispy, strange affair that probably rejoiced ir. the name of a “stole” . . . what a stole! Came breakfast time, and Mrs. Borridge donned a suit of dazzling emerald green jersey cloth with a scarlet, posy fixed in her corsage, and the longest of long earrings dangling around her. For dinner she appeared in a gown of shimmering, scintillating sequins.

that gave her the appearance of animated coat of mail . • • °y er . gown she wore a wondr°u s c 1 oas _ gold satin bands combined j; bands of black georgette and abo all she had a head-dress (or die call it a tiara?) of diamonds petunia tulle. In the last act she wore a quieter gown of tan crepe ° e simply fashioned and quite but for the vivid string of and the emerald posy that accomP* B * Miss Vera Ziman, as Mrs. had no opportunity to wear a * > n i wa v? As the rector’s wife she ' “sensibly” clad in severe tailorea . 1 and skirts, with whaleboned c 1 lace and net and sturdy nreS eot When she was “among thosep ; ■ at dinner. she was gowned in black charmeuse an 1 ciennes lace. Del** 1 Miss Margot Trafford. a* • wore, of course, only a neai a trim little affair of black » cuffs and cap and collar of