REVELRY BY NIGHT

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 15, 17 July 1937, Page 18

REVELRY BY NIGHT

POPULAR HOSTS

THE LADIES ENTERTAINED

"Never mind the weather" was the motto of a great number of people who alighted from motor-cars at the Commercial Travellers' Club last night to participate in the revels of "Ladies' Night." In the. vestibule the guests were received/by Mr., and. Mrs. H. H. Nash, the president of" the club, and I his wife. Mrs. Nash was wearing a i frock of., black lace with a short coat of black chiffon velvet and white fox furs. She carried a beautiful bouquet of hyacinths which had been presented to her by the staff. •. The reading room, ' where the concert was hejd,;with its.beautiful wood panelling and parquet-floor with large open fireplaces on either, end'of the room, was made cosy ■ with central i heating. ■ At the commencement of the. concert the president, Mr. H. H. Nash, gave a short address of welcome to the guests, and said that as this was

Coronation year they would begin by singing the National Anthem. A very enjoyable programme followed. Items were given as. follows:—Baritone solos by Mr. Ken Macaulay; soprano solos, Miss Kythe. Maciver; humorous sketches, Mr. Zachar.iah; contralto solos, Miss Eileen Courtenay; and musical monologues by Mr. Bert Goodland (Christchurch). Mrs. Nash presented each lady with a bouquet .of spring flowers. The accompaniments were very ably played by Mr. Norman Izett.

Supper was served in a large room upstairs, which was decorated in the club's colours, black and gold, with paper streamers and festoons of ballloons in these shades. The tables were decorated with streamers, of black and gold and vases of spring bulbs and maidenhair fern. On entering the supper room each guest was presented with a fancy paper hat, these when donned causing much amusement and added the carnival spirit to the occasion. .

.. In. the meantime the concert room had been, cleared for dancing, and bright music was provided, by an excellent dance band. Two exhibitions were: given by Trevor and Dawn, an apache dance and. a.stage waltz, which delighted , the spectators. . A novelty dance, a Highland . schottische, for which prizes were given, was won by Miss Pat Gledhill and Mr. Peter Phipps. . .

Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. W. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Strange-Mure, Mr. and Mrs. F. Eller, Mr. and Mrs. .F. C. Renouf, Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Constable, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Clarkson, Mr. and Mrs. G. ,H. E. Hazelwood. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Bradshaw,. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Scannell, Mr. . and Mrs. *.G. H. Olson, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Galvin, Mr. and Mrs. W. H Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Thornton, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Davenport, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Whitelaw, Mr. and, Mrs? A. L. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. E. Casey, Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Gibson, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Dawson, Mr. and Mrs. L. Rothschild,' Mr. .and Mrs. A. T. Parkes, Mr. arid Mrs. A. R. Wesfropp, Mr. and Mi-s. H. W. Huthnance, Mr. and Mrs. E. A.: Brooker. Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Guise, Mr.' and Mrs. E. W. Watson. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Brooking, Mr. and Mrs. V. M. Jones. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. E. Tomlinson, Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Good, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Thompson. Mr. and Mrs. A. Marsden, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Mazengarb, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Nankervis, Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Clissold, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Gyles, Mr. and Mrs. F. N. R. Meadows, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Morris, Mr. and Mrs. R. Telford, Mr., and Mrs. Con Hardley (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. C. Robinson. :Mr. and Mrs. R. -Caughley.^Mr. and I Mrs. C. L. Dentice, Mr. and Mrs. H. ;Frood, Mr. and Mrs. W. J.. Wallace. Mr. and Mrs. S. C. James. Mr. and ■'Mrs. G. D. Little,- Mr.- and. Mrs. L. F. Barton, Mr. and Mrs. -Aubrey Schloss, Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Hay ward,- Captain and Mrs.- F. A. Mclndoe; Mr. and Mrs. Le Pettit, Mr.- -and; Mrs. Percy Williams (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. Denis Richmond, Mr. and Mrs. F.- Lockwood, Mr. and Mrs. D. G. : Sawers, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Gallagher, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Cometli, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. McMillan, Mr. and Mrs..E. S. McGhee, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. McPherson Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Horn (Hawke's Bay), Mr. and Mrs. Grubb, Mr. and Mrs. Lan Smith (Hamilton), Mr. and. . Mrs. W. Rowe, . Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Rowe, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Mack,, Mr. and Mrs. C. Woodbury, Mr. and Mrs. K. Connor, Mr. and Mrs. Zachariah; Mesdames E. K. Larkin, Crawford, F. H. B. Townsend, Night McCartney, D. Wheeler, A. Bailey; ' the Misses Marie Strange-Mure, Marie Renouf, Edmondson, M. Grimstone, Cyren, Tiora and Imelda Meadows, Mamie White, Joan Carr, Elabeck. Joyce Constable, Patricia Gledhill! Sheila Moodie, G'eraldine Gallagher' Mary Ross, Betty Dixon, and Bailey; and Messrs. L. B. Quinton, J. D. Marks, W. Begg, J. E. Quinn, R. E. Selby (secretary), J. Stanley, H. A. Beauchamp, T W. Witt, R. G. Suiter, L. BoltonMoss, A. Hammersley, C. R. Whitcombe, C. Parsloe, T. F. Gamble Frank Renouf.. Robert Meadows, Robert Murie, Crawford, A. Smith, R.. J. Larkin, .J. .X, Goodley, PL H. Higgins. V. Hutchison, Ken Dixon, Cornelius, E. Dixon, Fernleigh, J. D. Gray, 5.. C. Nicholson, W.- Marchant,