CABARET EVENING

Evening Post, Issue 20, 23 July 1935, Page 15

CABARET EVENING

YOUNG FOLK ENTERTAINED

In honour of their twin daughter and son, Miss Thelma Jones and Mr. Mervyn Jones, Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Jones gave a thoroughly delightful dance last night in the Mayfair Cabaret.

A huge, painted cardboard key with a glittering tinselled "21" hung over the main entrance, and the cabaret, -charmingly decorated with streamers [and spring flowers, looked at its best. The ballroom in which the cabaret house orchestra was situated was cleared of its usual little red, green, yellow, pink, and blue tables, which were all placed in the other room and decked with jonquils, Iceland poppies, and camellias. A big bonbon was suspended overhead in each ballroom, and at a given moment they "cracked" arid their contents—multicoloured balloons, large and small. —went floating down among the dancers. * Loudspeakers were installed in the rooms furthest from the orchestra, so that everyone had the benefit of the excellent music.

The supper-room looked a picture of festivity. The long tables, arranged in a most unusual and very attractive fashion in the' shape of a triangle, were gay with yellow jonquils and maidenhair fern, paper caps and all sorts of delicacies, including hot savouries. In the centre of the triangle a brass bowl on a brass pedestal was filled with flowers. The guests of honour and their parents sat beneath another suspended key and tinselled "21" at the base of the triangle, with a beautifully iced large, square cake in front of them, which was ornamented with gold keys and the tiny figures of a boy and girl.

A very entertaining item was given by little Anne Boe, who made her entrance dressed in aviator's uniform, seated on an "aeroplane" (cleverly made out of a barrel). She sang "The Good Ship Lollipop," and did a clever tap dance in- imitation of Shirley Temple, the little screen actress.

Altogether it was a most gay and delightful party.

Mrs. Jones wore a graceful frock of heavy black elephant crepe, trimmed with pink and embroidered with diamante. Miss Jones's frock was of magnolia pink satin.

Among the guests wore Mr. and Mrs. G. McNamara, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. A. Ilott, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Blundell, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Sevier, Mrs. H. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Bell, Mrs. M. J. Hurley, Mr. and Mrs. G. Miller, Mr. "and Mrs. J. Mclhlyre, Mrs. W. S. Hughes (Christchurch), Miss F. Low, Miss B. Menard; Misses Marion McCaul, Nancy Lambert, Maisie Robertson, Esther Hoby, Helen Johns, Valeric Coleman, Winifred Vickery, Yvonne Vickery, Jo Power-Collins, Angela Yeats, Sue Yeats, Katharine Andrew, Barbara Young, Ranee Miller, Hilda Hurley, Joan Smith, Lois Mcllroy, Barbara Edie, Irma Hydcr, Molly Hurst, Helen Widdop, Barbara Widdop, Kathleen Kempthorne, Joyce May, June Allison; and Messrs. Reg. Jones, Dennis Page, Jim Nelson, Alex. Pearce, Bruce Vickery, Tom Harty, Geoffrey Harty, Dick Andrew, Ken King, Bill Gibbons, Brian McEwun, Jack Mules, Jack Jessep, Jack Ilott, Alan Ahearn, John Hurley, Jim Buddie, Hugo Hollis, H. W. Piper, H. L. Piper, Dick Morpeth, John Rose, lan Kirkcaldie, Tom IBirks, L, Desborough, Charlie Plank.