ALL FOOLS' REVELS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 121, 23 May 1914, Page 10

ALL FOOLS' REVELS.

On Ist April it was the All Fools' Night Revel at Covent Garden Opera House. There were days when a fancy dress ball brought together almost monotonous groups of kings and peasants, of cavaliers and shepherdesses. But now we are in the days of Cubists and Futurists and other strange people, so there appeared a huge assemblage of dancers in black and white, which are tho fashion for dresses, cut in grotesque form like nothing that happens in real life on sea or land, with green eyebrows and wigs of every shade but the expected. Midnight brought, with it crowds of stage favourites and the now inevitable "spectacle." This consisted of a procession of " ideas "" — pretty uctressos in strange dresses of black and white, gold and flame, with here and there a green wig. They danced the Chinese "TaTao " — which lacks the gay abandon of ragtime. Then a ' solemn pause, enter "the haunted hundred," a ballet of "ghosts" in black and white cloaks, who went through mazy movements at a gallop, chasing the poor "Ideas" away, while different coloured lights played over the revel. Suddenly — darkness — a solemn hush-*-and then upturned lights. This was tho planned and secret " sensation " of tho night, for each ghost had turned back the flap of his or her cloak, and tho whole company became a band of grinning skeletons.