CHELSEA ARTS BALL

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 73, 27 March 1931, Page 13

CHELSEA ARTS BALL

ENORMOUS BIRTHDAY PARTY

One of the most popular balls of the year in London was tlio Chelsea -Arts Club ball, which took place in the Albert Hall on New Year's Eve (states ;i London correspondent). Mr. Frank Brangwyn and Mr. Dean Cornwell were responsible for this year's decorative scheme, and the main idea of the ball was to make it as much as possible like an enormous birthday party, as this was the- 21st time the Chelsea Art Club ball had been held. The Albert Hall was transformed into the likeness of a, huge drawing-room, and the debutante who personified the coming of ago was carried round the floor on the Bhouldcrs of Slado School students. She had a ninetoen-foot-high birthday cake, surmounted with a bottle _of champagne twenty-four feet nigh, which was opened at midnight. Many of the merrymakers impersonated guests arriving by air, steamer, and train, and others dressed as symbols of the coming of ago party. For instance, some posed as candles, 21 of them, round the cake, while others represented the food for the birthday feast, and many brought presents. The Westminster Art School, for one, represented Kenya Colony, and brought offerings in the shape of gold, ivory, coffee, and oranges. A satisfactory report of last year's work was road at the recent meeting of tho Brooklyn branch of the Women's Christian 'J'cnipcraiicc Union, The president (Mrs. Ssiwdon), who was in. the chair, spoke on tho work mapped ■out. for the ensuing year, mentioning particularly, the work done yearly by Lhe Dominion Union organisers (tho Misses M'Lay). She asked each mombur present to bring one new member. Mrs. Webster (vice-president) attended the Nelson. Convention,