BEAUTIFUL FROCKS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 133, 3 December 1930, Page 15

BEAUTIFUL FROCKS

PAGEANT OF LIVING JEWELS

Pearls, rubies, diamonds, emeralds, and every other precious stone which I can be found in the British Empire formed the basis of a niagnifieeiit "Pageant of Living Jewels," which AViis given at the Park Lane Hotel, London, on the night of the Jewels of Empire Ball" (states the "Daily Mail"). Sixty beautiful women took part in it, and wore dressed actually to resemble -the jewels they impersonated. The richest of velvets was used for thoir gowns. The living ruby had a ruby-red dress just sufficiently darker than the stone itself so that the neck lace, brooch, and other ornaments worn were thrown into relief against it. The rich blue of the torquoiae, the brilliant tone of the emerald, the soft beauty of the amethyst, and that of the sapphire were all represented in this way, but the diamond was displayed on wonderful creations of. Mack or grey velvet. Lady Diti.ti.-i Cooper-was the "Queen of Diamonds," with l.ho Ma.rchionoss of Queeusbury, the Hon. Mrs. James Beck, Miss Valeric 'French, and Mrs Gerald d'Erlanger in attendance on her The other groups were matlo up in tlio same way, of five women, noted for their good looks or their vivid per-

sonality. The outstanding figure in the pageant was Miss Gertrude Lawrence, who, in a gown of the softest and richest pearl-tinted velvet, with a dozen magnificent silver fox skins adorning the beautiful draperies, impersonated a, black pearl. Three types of opal were impersonated, the black, the fire, and the white, with five young girls in delicate shades taking up tho colours of tho stones to display tho frocks. Mme. Danilova, of Russian Ballet fame, who is the star dancer in "EverGreen," danced in the pageant as tha "Spirit oL' Jewels." The ball and pageant was intended to demonstrate that, almost every precious and semiprecious stone is found within tho British Empire.