Colour of the Orient Seen at the Civic

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 852, 21 December 1929, Page 24

Colour of the Orient Seen at the Civic

Many at Opening of New Theatre

BEAUTIFUL FROCKS WORN Under the twinkling stars of a tropic night, the first-night audience at the Civic Theatre sat in surprising luxury. They might have been sitting at some fashionable watering-place on the Mediterranean coast, so lovely is the interior of Auckland's new house of amusement. ATTENDANTS garbed in Oriental "costume showed patrons to their decorative, comfortable seats, and dusky Arabs were in attendance on the stairs and at the door. Delicately traced towers and minarets, the balconies of Eastern palaces covered with flowers and rich rugs* waving palms against a deep-blue sky, all added to the wonder and enjoyment of last night’s smartly-gowned audience. AMONG THOSE PRESENT Mr. and Mrs. T. A. O’Brien, Mir. and Mrs. O. Nicholson, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Bankart, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rhodes, Mr. and Mrc. E. R. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Nathan, Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Nathan, Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Houghton, Mr. and Mrs. Trevor Davis, Mr. and Mrs. V. J. Darner, Mr. and Mrs. Rogerson, Mr. and Mrs. Gribbin, Mr. George Baildon and Mrs. A. D. Campbell (Mayoress), Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Brigham, Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell, Mr. and' Mrs. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Tyler, Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson, Mr. and Mrs. Paul, Mr. and Mrs. Skeet, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hayward, Mr. and Mrs. P. Hayward, Mr. and Mrs. M. Moodabe, Mr. and Mrs. J. Moodabe, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith, Mr. and Mrs. P. Murdock, Mr. and Mrs. R. Puller, Mr. and Miss Harding; The Hon. J. B. Donald and Mrs. Donald, Mr. and Mrs. W. Jacks, Mrs. J. Potter. Mrs. J. J. Sullivan, Miss Bessie Pagni, Miss Hildred Graham, Mrs. Hale, Miss D. Farquhar, Mrs. Ralph Wylde Brown, Mrs. Colwill, Miss Joyce Colwill, Miss Betty Colwill, Mrs. Reg Newcombe, Mrs. EC. Ogilvie, Miss Doris Tills, Mrs. Hunt, Miss Gwen Gooseman, Miss Nance Forte, Miss Edna Ballantyne, Miss Stewart, Mrs. Brewer, Miss Brewer, Miss A. Webster, Miss Thelma Ogilvie. Mr. and Mrs. George Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Mcßrearty, Mr. and Mrs. Daye Cook, Mr. and Mrs. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Mulgan, Mr. and Mrs. Bullock, Mr. and Mrs. McKay, Mr. and Mrs. Oakley Browne, Mr. and Mrs. Seabrook, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Hacket, Mr and Mrs. C. S. Tendall, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Scoullar, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. Bohringer, Mr. and Mrs. Leighton, Mr. and Mrs. J. Donald, Mr. and Mrs. Inder, Mr. and Mrs. Metcalfe, Mr. and Mrs. Fraser, Mrs. Farquhar, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Eady, Mr. and Mrs. McGinn, Mr. and Mrs. Robertson, Mr. and Mrs. Chalmers, Mr. and Mrs. Edwards, Mr. T. Dawson, Mr. and Mrs. A. Barker, Mr. A. J. O’Brien, Mrs. K. Wallace, Mrs. M.' L. Brewer, Mrs. Boult and Miss Boult, Mr. and Mrs. Pat Saunders, Mr, Zimmerman, Mrs. Henkel, Mr. E. Taylor, Miss Margin, Miss A. Stewart, Miss Wright. Mrs. de Graff Hunter, Miss E. Hardley, Miss Iris Hale, Miss Anita Webster, Mrs. Gordon Jones, Mrs. Lichtenstein, Mrs. Athol Mills, Mrs. Herman, senior.

A large number of people remained after the show to a supper dance in the Winter Garden.

AMONG THE DANCERS

Mrs.' Thomas O’Brien was wearing a gown of black and silver beaded chiffon. Mrs. Elliot Davis wore a quince coloured Spanish lace frock with deep decolletage and smart pointed cape. Mrs. Reg Newcombe was wearing palest cameo pink chiffon with tucked corsage and uneven-length skirt. . Mrs. Hunt wore a gown of rose pink faille with flounces of silver lace. Miss Dulcie O’Brien wore a frock of cameo pink taffeta. Miss Peach O’Brien had on a pastel shaded chiffon frock. Miss Gwen Gooseman wore a slim-nt-ting frock of nymph gren satin beaute. Miss Nance Forte had pinned a spray of pink roses to the corsage of . her flounced rfrory chiffon gown. Miss Edna Ballantyne’s lulled georgette frock was of larkspur blue and dipped to the ankles at the back. Miss Stewart was wearing o, frock of Ch M l i r ss Brewer had on a frock of ciel blue and silver embossed georgette with flounced skirt. .. - Anita The uneven hemline of Miss Anita Webster’s lavender tinted georgette frock, falling in four points, was defined with narrow georgette frills. , Miss Effie Hardley wore a black georgette froc kand black and orange happy C °Miss Peggy Keys was In a black and rose flowered chiffon. BEACH OUTFITS BAGS, SUITS AND SUNSHADES MATCH Beacli outfits become more and more Important every year now that there is such a craze for sun-bathing; while the additional amount of travelling done since the war has brought about a revolution In travelling bags, The newest handbag of coloured morocco is one with the triple fastening, which turns it into two bags. One of these two bags has the ordinary mirror and note-case fittings, with a little flap purse attached firmly to the side; the other bag is lined with oiled silk, and contains, in various pockets, a face flannel, soap, small towel and comb. It has a wide enough gusset to allow for a swimming costum'e but it is really Intended largely for travelling. The newest beach bag is the brolly bag,' and is made of gaily-coloured striped linen, lined with moire silk. It has a sun umbrella of the same linen, which can be slipped into straps inside the bag when not needed. Another variant of the heath hag is a very large one of gay cretonne, set into an imitation tortoiseshell frame and lined with oiled silk. It is capacious enough to allow for a swimming suit and towel, and has a waterproof purse,, a note case, a mirror and a, comb as fittings. There are some new and amusing ideas for beach costumes showing in the larger houses now. One of them consists of a practical stockinette swimming suit with a figured crepe de chine coat in gay colours, faced with stockinette, and a cap made of the two materials; a large bathing bag and a sunshade tq match are included. The idea, of course, is that you take the coat off and put it Inside the bag, which then makes a pillow for your head, while the sunshade keeps your face from blistering. Still more amusing is a “sea suit” in milanese silk with braid down the front of the bodice and round the skirt; the bodice is made in a crossover fashion, very prettily, and when you have taken your bath you may slip on a floral cotton skirt, very full cm an elastic waist. A cooling hat goes with this, trimmed with the same material.