THE LATEST ENTERTAINMENT.
" A Polymorphous' Fete " is the latest entertainment which, it is. said, KajLJUflt been given in Pari? by 7 a welljWwn aotress, The ball-room'was, transformed into a funeral, -chamber,; harmonise with the character of the entertainment ; and the guests amused themselves by playing at ghosts. The gentlemen arrived in spectre attire, and the ladies were deliciously dressed . \ as phantoms; coffins were liberally i placed'about the room,-and : round:and amongst them a,game of hide and-seek was entered into with.mu<ih- 'zeal.- AfteyJß wards there was a dance'of a speetmfw description; and to it succeeded a concen£7 in which the ghosts performed. However, notwithstanding the phantom-like, appearance of the guests, they gave evidence of being flesh and blood by an: excellent appetite, The night's festivities were brought to an end by a choice supper, served (in the coffins, piled up one on another to form a table.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2096, 16 September 1885, Page 2
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145THE LATEST ENTERTAINMENT. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2096, 16 September 1885, Page 2
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