“PARTY-CRASHERS”

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 301, 16 September 1936, Page 3

“PARTY-CRASHERS”

People on Black List Indignant. London society hostesses are banding together to combat “gatecrashers” who invade private parties uninvited. They have prepared a black list of offenders, which includes, it is understood, several well-known and titled young people. Other hostesses are employing lynx-eyed guards to keep out the crashers. At a recent party given by Lady Janet Bailey at Hurlingham, a guard posted at the gate scrutinised the invitations and compared them with a typewritten list of guests. Those who had ni’slaid their invitations were told they could* ring up Lady Bailey and give their identity. They would then be admitted if they bad been invited A dozen or more people were turned away—and did not bother to telephone .Miss Barbara Cartland, tbe famous society novelist, told the “Sunday Chronicle” of ingenious new methods employed by the “gate-crasher ”

“Some of them hear of a dance or a party, and although they have not been invited, write to the hostess and say they will be pleased to come." she said. “They are reckoning on the p-issibllity that the hostess win be too busy to check up the replies with her invita t'ons.”

One offender confessed to rhe “Sun day Chronicle” that she had been hard hit by the new rulings “In three sea sous 1 have crashed 70 parties.”J she said