TWO ATTRACTIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 97, 21 October 1936, Page 17

TWO ATTRACTIONS

VICEREGAL PATRONAGE

The, great number, of cars that parked in the vicinity gave some indication of the popularity of the attractions within the Town Hall last night when the Symphony Orchestra, under the leadership of Mr. Leon de Mauny, gave a concert in the hall proper and the first night of the Repertory Society's latest production took place in the Concert Chamber. Her Excellency Viscountess Galway attended the concert, accompanied by Mrs. Arthur Purvis. Seated with them were Mr. D. A. Ewen (president of the Symphony Orchestra Society) and Mrs. Ewen, and Mr. W. M. Page (vicepresident) and Mrs. Page. Her Ex-cellency-was wearing a black evening frock and coat, and a spray of orchids, and Mrs. Purvis was also dressed in black. •

Noticed in the a.udience were Madame de' Mauny, Commander and Mrs. E. L.. Tottenham, Lady Frazer, Mr. Edward Bell, Mr. and Mrs. Saunders, Mrs. Edwin Salmond, Mrs. Rendle, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Pringle, Mrs. Charles Morice, Mrs. Frank Hay, Dr. Hickey, Dr. and Mrs. Mercer, Mrs. Milne, the Misses Mary and Jean Gilmer, Mrs. Hobbs, Mrs. Godfrey Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. John Jack, Mr. and Mrs. Dean, Mrs. Montgomery Spencer, Mrs. Morley, Miss Isla Bristow, Major

and Mrs. Edney, Miss Holland, Miss Francis Parker, Mr. Lefeaux, Mrs. M. Tweed and Miss Tweed, Mrs. F. W. Lawson, Miss Olive Barron, Mrs. G. Bucklin, Mrs. Peter Maclean, Miss Sybil Nathan, Mrs. Ashbolt and Miss P. Ashbolt, Mrs. Stanton.. Harcourt, Mrs. Sprott, Miss Seymour, Miss Noel Dowling. Mrs. Hitchings, Mrs. Hughes Steele, Mrs. Fosbery Handyside,' Dr. Tennent, Mr. A. H. Miles, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Hart, Miss Nancy Hunt, Miss Alison Addison, Miss B. Crawford, Mr. and Mrs. Oswin, Miss M. Cooper, Miss Kember, Mrs. A. B. Gibbons, Miss. Constance Morice, Mrs. Parker and Miss Mary Parker, Miss E. Greenwood, Miss D. Greenwood, and Miss~Paddy Steele.

A number of well-known young girls sold programmes and acted as ushers, among them being the Misses Esme Whatley, Lois Miles (Gisborne), Betty Ellis, Jan Slbman; June Luckie, Diana Jamieson' (Hawke's Bay), Pamela Paterson, Betty and Eleanor Page, Georgette Handyside, Annette Harcourt, Harper Allan, and Patricia Marshall.