SHERRY PARTY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1937, Page 18

SHERRY PARTY

MRS. FULLER ENTERTAINS

ENGLISH ARTIST WELCOMED

Mrs. Murray Fuller invited a number of people who are interested in art to a "five o'clock" party at the Hotel Cecil yesterday to meet Mr. and Mrs. S.J. Lamorna Birch. Mr. Lamorna Birch is a Royal Academician, the first to visit New Zealand. He and. his wife have just arrived in Wellington after making a painting tour through the North Island, and he is very keen about the beauty of the country. After he has visited the south, and before leaving for England, he intends to hold an exhibition in Wellington. Mrs. Fuller's guests were all very pleased to meet this ■ distinguished artist and his wife, who have a contagiously happy and charming manner. Sherry and savouries were served continuously and the party was a very cheery one.

■.The lounge was decorated with bowls of yellow zinnias and,looked particularly attractive. Mrs. Fuller was wear-

ing a floral dress with a Russian blouse effect, and a charming gown of delphinium blue spotted with white was worn by Mrs. Birch.'

Those present were Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Fuller, Mr. and Mrs. T. D. H. Hall, Dr. and Mrs. Twhigg, Sir George and Lady Shirtcliffe, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Dawson, the Misses Olive Barron and Joan Inglis, Mr. and Mrs. Alan Mulgan, Mr: . and Mrs. Philip Cooke, Dr. and, Mrs. Marshall McDonald, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Burch, Mr. and Mrs. Fotheringham, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Kent, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Hogg, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Y. Seddon, Mi", and Mrs. G. G. G. Watson, Sir Robert Muir (Glasgow), Dr. Morgan (Melbourne), Mr. Nugent Welch, Mr. E. D. Gore, Mr. and Mrs. J. Heenan, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Jenkinson, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Atkinson, Miss Eva Butts, Mr. and Mrs. Gray Young, Dr. and Mrs. P. Lynch, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Ewen, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Hunt, Mr. and Mrs. R. Hipkins, Mr. and Mrs. M. King, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Wauchop, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tombs, Colonel Carbery, Dr. Robert Stout, Madame Bendall, Miss Longford, Mr. and Mrs. Feilding, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. McKinnon, Mr. and Mrs. O. N. Gillespie, Mr. and Mrs. F. Whatley, Miss Patricia Gilmer, and Mr. and Mrs. T. A. McCormick. , - '