"LADIES' EVENING"

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 19, 22 July 1939, Page 18

"LADIES' EVENING"

MANLY PRECINCTS INVADED

EXCELLENT HOSTS

"Ladies* Evening" at the Commercial Travellers' Club is an event not likely to be forgotten by.any who have been so fortunate as to attend; It is given annually by the Wellington Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's Association. The guests are exclusively feminine, the only men admitted being the members of the association —in other words..the hosts. This year's function took place last night, and the guests must have been nattered by the arrangements made for their entertainment. After being received in the vestibule by the president of the association, Mr. E. E. Brooking, and his wife, they were escorted up to the club's handsome panelled library, which had been arranged as a concert hall. When, everyone was assembled Mr. Brooking made a speech welcoming the

ladies, and then they were entertained with a programme of excellent items. The hall was crowded, there being about 350 people present. At the conclusion of the-concert''the chairs were cleared away and dancing took place. Supper, was.served in another spacious room on another floor. The tables were c'-ecdrated with' golden jonquils, and Streamers in the club's colours, gold and black, were suspended: from the ceiling; These were, the only decorations used anywhere- throughout the club, the handsome panelling and comfortable furnishings of all the rooms making' further embellishments unnecessary. Dancing continued until well' into' the early hours, and in between times some of the guests amused themselves ■ playing billiards in the spacious billiard-room. Those who.-took- part in the concert programme,, which, was arranged by Mr..'Bruce Quinton, .were Mr. R, J. Simpson (post horn solo), Mr. and Mrs. Hickford (duet), Mr. H. L. Taylor (musical monologue), Miss Kythe Maciver (soprano solo, accompanied by Mr. Harold Whittle), "The Asquitbs-' (■society entertainers"), Miss Joy Asquith (impersonations), Mr. Dan Hopa (baritone solo, accompanied by Mr. E. E. Dean). Mr. Eric Bell was the official accompanist. Many very pretty Crocks were worn. Mrs. Brooking, who was carrying a beautiful bouquet of pink cyclamen, heath, and. violets, presented to her by the members, was dressed in broadly striped pink and waltz green taffeta, made with a full skirt and a horizontally ruched bodice. AMONG THOSE PRESENT. Among others present were >£r. and Mrs. A. Allen, Mr. and Mrs. F. Eller, Mr. and Mrs. H; R. Searle, Mr. R. E. Selby, Mr-, and Mrs. R. Cameron, Mr. and Mrs. O. G. A. Home, Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Haines, Mr. and Mrs. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. D. P. James, Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Kitto, Mr. William Begg, Mr. F. W. Mackay, Mr and Mrs. H. C. Murray, Mr. A. H. Cunningham, Mr. A. L. Smith, Mr and Mrs. W. H. Campbell, Mr F. S. Swan (Napier), Miss Constable, Mn and Mrs. H. Frood, Mr. G. Arcus, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Manning, Mr. W. D. Murie, Mr. R. K. Barron, Miss Patricia Gledhill, Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Pearce, Miss Ola; Pearce, Mr. and Mrs. H. Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Wright, Miv R. J. Henderson, Mr. T. F. Gamble, Mr. H. H. Higgins, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ricketts, Mr. and Mrs S W. Sheldon, Mr. J. Khouri, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Cameron, Mr George Wright, Mr. Kenneth Whitehead, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Tunnington, Miss Joyce Low, Mr. and Mrs. C. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Gault, Mr. Trevor Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. A. Marsden, Mr. W. H. Randall, Mr. J. Banfield, Mr. E. Dixon, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Gyles, Mr. Cyril Gyles, Miss Margaret Munro, Mr. Bernard Parker, Mr. Charles Acheson, Mr. T. R. Catley, Mr. J. L. Barnard, Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Vickridge, Mr. W. S. Corbett, Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Taylor, Mr and Mrs. L. Monkman, Captain and Mrs. F. A. Macindoe, Mr. J. E. Quinn, Miss Joan Carr, Mr. M. A. Carr, Mr. C. Parsloe, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Preston, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Abel, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Scammell, Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Ireland, Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Robertson, Miss I. Vincent, Mr. E. Edwards, Mr. and Mrs. R. Telford, Mr. R. Telford. jun., Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Baillie, Mr. Eric Hatch, Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Richmond, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Shortt Mr. A. Clapp (Duhedin), Mr. L. E. Eastabrook (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Harvey, Mr. and Mrs J. F. Reid, Miss Ormi Reid, Mr. and Mrs. Denis Raymond. Mr. and Mrs. K. Mooney, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hatrick, Mr. S. G. Nicholson, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Good, Mr. J. L. Gichard, Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Parkes, Miss Marie- Brooking, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. James, Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Cloake, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. J. North, Mr. F. W. Bedford, Mr. and Mrs. H. Barton Ginger, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Meacham, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. McGee, Miss Mitchell, Mr. R. G. Suiter, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Read, Mr. and Mrs. Livingstone, Mr. and Mrs. A. Cornelius, Mr. H. Pilkinton (Sydney), Mr. and Mrs. V. McPherson Jones, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Cuming, Mr. Stuart Taylor, Mr. R. Murray, Mr. R. Wallis, Mr. N. T. Raymond, Mr; and Mrs; F. R. Streeter, Mr. Don Streeter, Miss J. Castle, Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Booker, Mr. Keith Cunliffe, Mr. J. K. Goodley, Mr. arid Mrs. A. F. Downer, Mr. J. W. Stanley , Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Swanson, Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Swanson, Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Hayward, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Holland, Miss B. Syme, Mr. C. B. Cox, jun., Miss Williams, Mr. T. W. Orr, Mrs. J. Gapes, !Mr. and Mrs. Gordon McCallum, Mr. C. W. Mack, Miss Kathleen White, Mr. 'A. Keller, Mr. and Mrs. Night McCartney, Mr. and Mrs. Keiv Maxwell '(Hamilton), Mrs. Charles Bush, Mrs. E. Johnson, Miss Geraldine Gallagher, and Miss Valeric Ciut, i