A DERBY BALL
There was a distinctly pre-war atmosphere at the Hon. Lady Ward's Derby ball at Dudley House, writes a Londoner.
Almost every feminine head carried its tiara. Some surprising-looking calves were revealed in consequence of the malo guests wearing knee-breeches. Masses of roses were banked up on each si do of the ballroom. Jars of i-aviare and baskets of strawberries covered the supper tables. Even thu music was Ambrosial.'
Tliere were enough duchesses to have satisfied "Alice in Wonderland." Ono of these, the Duchesso of Norfolk, sat on tho right of tho Queen, whose- blue tlrcss glittered witli diamonds.
Notable guests, such as Lord Londonderry, wero taken up to Her Majesty oue by one. She smiled as Princo George danced by, first with Lady Milbanke and later with Mrs. Dudley Coats. And the proof of the success of the party was that the Queen did not leave until nearly midnight.
A ladies' home-nursing class will be enrolled at the St. John Ambulance Association's lecture hall, Broadway Buildings, Courtenay place, on Thursday evening. The course of lectures will cover a period of eight weeks, and will be a most instructive and interesting one. All phases of nursing iii the homo will be dealt with, and tho knowledge gained will be most useful to nil who luku I lie course. Full details may lie obtained ill. the oflier, and the i-lnss is opuu Uf all. _
A DERBY BALL
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 31, 5 August 1930, Page 13
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