THE SOCIAL ROUND

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 134, 2 March 1936, Page 4

THE SOCIAL ROUND

Star Briating Club Dance Dinner suits took the place of club blazers at the Star Boating Club’s rooms on Saturday night, when members held a successful dance which was both well attended and thoroughly enjoyed by all present. Dancing took place in the main club-room, which had been strikingly decorated with coloured streamers strung, canopyfashion, from side to side of the ceiling, while at one end a huge blue star mounted guard. The club’s colours, blue and white, were much in evidence, and all the lights—in the dance room, the supper room and in the wide corridor, with its honours boards, going back many years—were decorated with streamers that matched the canopy over the dance floor. The night was perfect for dancing, being neither 100 warm nor too cool, and in great demand was the balcony which, with its view of the harbour, always slightly romantic on a night such as Saturday, was very popular both during and between dances. A tempting buffet supper was ■ served and a good orchestra was heard in popular dance tunes.

“ Those present included Misses Claire Mack, Ngaire Aplin, Pat Harle, Zoe Bowling, Sonia and Valerie Caselberg, Kathleen Kempthorne, Valerie Robertson. Suzanne Hughes, Jean Fenwick, Nancy Meinhold, M. Gibbons, Elsie Stewart, Joyce Aberne, Margaret Nancy Young, J. Peters, Joyce Binnie, Barbara Bannister, J. Didsbury, Marion Todd, J. Turnbull, Peggy Hogg, Messrs. Selwyn Toogood, Arthur Mack, Keith Morrison, Brian and lan Graves, W. Ward, W. Bradshaw, L. Caselberg, J. Black, 11. Wansbrough, Pat Hughes, T, Dennihy, Ted Wright, R. G. Didsbury, L. Ellingham, Reg Larkin, Roger Roberts, S. Agaard, Hague-Smith, Nigel Haggitt, K. Twiss, G. Gibbons, K. Frazer, G. Peters, D, Burge, U. Stewart, V. du Chateau, AV. Foster.

Leap Year Dance

Something in the way of a novelty was staged by the Younger Set Club of Wellington on Saturday night (leap year night), when they held a leap year dance at which men were asked to dress as women and women as men. There was an excellent attendance, the majority of the dancers entering thoroughly into the spirit of the occasion. The dance Was held in the Oriental Cabaret, Courtenay Place, which, with its pale biscuit walls surmounted with quaint Eastern pictures and amusing Oriental figures, presented a gay and amusing sight. Many of the young Women who wqre dressed as men looked thoroughly at home in the clothing: of the opposite sex—which was more than-one could say of the men who ■ were dressed as women. One young man who. was in a black frock trimmed with scarlet, looked every inch a "vamp,” and even went to the extent of having his fingernails coloured and wore a most fetching scarlet band and bow in his jpt black hair, Another chose an 'evening frock of primrose satin cut oh every modern lines; With this he wore a vivid Oriental shawl and a primrose bandeau and bow in his hair. His high-heeled shoes proved to be something of a trial. The majority of the' men’s dresses were in the nature Of comedy impersonations. A leap year novelty was the auctioning of partners, the women bidding for the men. During the evening a buffet supper was wheeled into the room on "dumb waiters.” Music was supplied by an orchestra, which played both modern and old-time numbers.

The committee wbo organised this novel dance were: Miss Aileeii Reed (secretary), Mrs. S. Smith, Miss Margaret Munro, Miss Margery Bunner, Miss Lprnu Hare, Mr. Herbert Knowles, Mr. Rod Latimer, Mr. E. Davy am} Afr. R. P. Davison. Among those present were: Sir, and Mrs, Carl- Brandt, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Pearce, Afisses Rona Chapman, K. Todd. A. Gill, S. Hodgson, Beadle, AlcNab, AL Bayliss, .Mavis Sawyer, Joy Cartwright, M. AlcNarn/ Alabel TV'alker, D. AValker, M. Webb, H. McCulloch, H. Alartin, Peggy AVoodward, Cara Aldrjdge, J. Lauchlan; Alessrs. B, AlcCaw, Syd Apirris, Ron Fletcher, R. Hill, K. Chambers, B. O’Connell, Max Turner, P. Hamill, W. Dyer, John Harvey, J. Payne, John and Brian Homewood, N. Bunner, T. Geddes, A. Sutherland, P. Peterson, G. Taylor, and others.