DUNGEON CABARET
The organiser of any affair to collect funds for charity has to have exceedingly original ideas today if she is to attract a somevrhat blase public. All those who work at organising charity dances and entertainments are not as fortunate as an English hostess, Lady Chaytor, who, in the beginning of December, organised a cabaret and dance in the dungeons of ancient Witton Castle in Durham. There are three dungeons in all, and they have hardly been touched since they were built in the eleventh century. On this occasion, however, one had been transformed into a scene from the Moroccan desert, and tile others weer a Chinese room and a fully-equipped cocktail bar. The tremendously thick grey walls were covered with tapestries and embroideries, and the ceilings were covered by beautiful and priceless old hand-made curtains. In one dungeon there Is a cavity which was once a secret passage leading to the river. In this cavity had been placed a huge ruby-coloured globe round which were arranged faggots giving a wonderful realistic effect of lire.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 913, 5 March 1930, Page 6
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177DUNGEON CABARET Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 913, 5 March 1930, Page 6
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