DINNER AND RECEPTION

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 85, 11 April 1933, Page 13

DINNER AND RECEPTION

DR. AND MRS. MCEVEDY

In honour of their daughter, Miss Mary McEvedy, Dr. and Mrs. P. F. McEvedy gave a large dinner party and reception last evening at the Empire Hotel, about seventy guests being present. The tables were beautifully decorated with choico pink carnations, delphiniums, and other ilowers in tones 'of pink, and blue, and trails of maiden hair fern. The guests were received by Dr. and Mrs. McEvedy, the latter wearing a handsome frock of black ring velvet with inset yoke of black lace over pink net. . A circular capo of lace had a border of .largo velvet flowers, and she wore diamond ornaments, and carried a fan of natural ostrich feathers. Miss Mary McEvedy's frock of carnation pink organdie, embroidered with silver traceries, had a voluminous skirt on which there were alternately silver lace flounces and flounces of delphinium blue taffeta, large puff sleeves reached to the elbow, and she wore pink mittens and carried a pink ostrich feather fan. A shoulder wrap of tucked pink georgette had wide capo sleeves edged with pink cock feathers. Miss Patricia McEvedy wore :i frock of ivory cobweb lace over organdie, the skirt formed by three flared flounces and narrow . bands of sequins encircling tho bodice, which had a broad band of opalescent sequins down the. front. She had a circular shoulder, cape of steel sequins. Mrs. Dennehy (Grcymouth) was in a frock of French silk velvet with epaulette sleeves off the shoulders, and a large applique of rhincslones ond sequins on the bodice. With this she wore a short shoulder capo, edged with summer ermine. Miss G. McEvedy (Christchurch) wore a soft jade : greeu georgette frock, pleated and tucked perpendicularly from neck to hem, and a shoulder wrap with, cape sleeves edged with green cock feathers. The guests were Eev. Fathers J. Dowling, Cullen, and Cleary, Mrs. Macarthy Eeid, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Wood, Mr. and Mrs. C< Tringham, Mr. and Mrs. E. Blundell, Mr.and' Mrs. J. J. McGrath, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. A. Gill, Mr. and Mrs. McLean, Mrs. Knox Gilmer, Mr. Dennehy, Mr. a«d Mrs. Ilollis, Mr. and Mrs. Digges-.Smith, Mr. and Mrs. W. Perry, Mr. and Mrs. Lan Tringhani, Miss A. Kennedy, Mr. and Mrs. N. Nelson, Mr. Madden, Mr. Green, Mr. and Mrs. G. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Ahcrn, Mrs. Campbell, Misses M. Eutter, G. Madden, M. Trotter, DiggesSmith, M. Gilmer, M. Bourke, S. Kennedy, M. Morton, N. Blundoll, Madden, J. Fleming, Wilkinson, B. Bourke, and N. Day, and Messrs. D. and P. McGratli, li. Le Grove, N. Blundell, S. McLean, J. and D. Madden, Trotter, E. Hollis, Brodie, S. Wheeler, Cahill, Cuming, B. Eeid, G. Hull, J. McKondry, T. Brosnan, M. Larkin, Dr. Plimmer, and Dr. Brown. .