MONOWAI DANCE

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 70, 15 December 1933, Page 7

MONOWAI DANCE

English-Speaking Union YOUNGER SET ASSEMBLE One of tlie most cheerful dances given this season was that organised and held on board the. Monowai last evening by the Younger Set of the EnglishSpeaking Union, the host and hostess for which were Mr. and Mrs. O. Benge. Tlie committee were: Mrs. Knowles, Miss R. Anscombe, Miss M. Russell, Miss Heinemann, Miss Ngaire. Horton, Miss Pat Moore, and Messrs. Knowles, Larkin, Laing, Sutherland and Bertram.

The whole promenade deck was enclosed with canvas and flags, and there were sitting-out places on the boatdeck, and even on the sacred precincts of the bridge. ■ Supper was served in all the luxury of the saloon diningroom, the tables of which were decorated with , scarlet Ixias, while flags of various countries, and the ship's pennants, added their note-of splendid adornment. The band was set aft, with loudspeakers to take the music all over the ship, and there was also a gramophone to take an occasional turn. The two comfortable lounges, the music-room, and smoking-room, were all gay witn Chinese lanterns, coloured lights, and flowers, and the ship’s funnels and the bridge were bright with flood-lightri Father Neptune played an important part in the entertainment of the visitors, distributing favours from his sea chest to all comers. There were two charming “turns” by pupils of Kathleen O’Brien —an "adagio acrobatique by Joan Raine and Clarence Poppleton, and “Waltz Dream,” a graceful rhythmic dance by Joan Raine, who wore a white dress with tight short bodice, and long, full, flowing skirt. Among those present were: Signor and Signora FormicheHa. Mr. and Mr®Orebaugh, Captain and Mrs. Webb Mr. and Mrs. Matthewson, Miss Sheila Coates, Miss Amy Kane, Mr. and Mrs S. Andrews, Misses B. Duncan. M. Bennie, N. Hallard. M. and J. Rule. M. Hunt, M. Shorter. D. Poole. M. Post. A. Hdl, S. Bothamley. B. Woolley, K. Ward. I. Brown, A. Hodgkins, F. -Smith, N. Wright, E. Hitchcock, H. Miller, J. Reid, Von Keisenburg (2), Mee, Johnson, McGreevv, J; Gilf Pitts, Reid, Tarr. Barclay. J. May, E. Johnson, L. La Trobe, Mann, Branston, E. Hill. _ Raine. M. Ward, I. McKenzie,’ N. Craig, V. Kelly, M. Small. J. Turnbull. V. Wingfield, M. Urwin, N. Gillespie, P. Galbraith, P. Kain, N. Robertson, Tyson, Messrs. A. Lawson, N. Perry, Wingfield. G. Dick, B. Thompson, S. Toogood, Russel 1. Bertram, A. McDougall, L. Thompson, A. Reeve, Torbot, Clouston, Holdsworth, Miller, P. Thorpe. T. W. Whyte. M< Bennett, S. Rubenstein, T. Lane. Minn, J. Hall, D, Taylor, M. Bennie, H. Plimmer, K. Graham, R; Larkin, Smythe.-G< and D. Bennett.