CABARET DANCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 28, 1 August 1940, Page 16

CABARET DANCE

SOLDIERS' FAMILIES BENEFIT

TRUBY KING CLUB'S EFFORT

American ideas were incorporated in the dance given last night by the Truby King Club, and about 250 young people responded to the committee's invitation to spend a night at "The. Coconut Grove." Guests, on arrival, passed through the carpeted foyer where dozens of luxuriant palms were arranged, into the cabaret proper, which was gay with poinsettias, flowers much favoured in the United States? for their striking decorative effect. Few of the young men present could resist the wiles of the committee girls who sold cigarettes and floral sprays from beribboned trays, and their partners benefited as a consequence. Those who succumbed to the charm of spring flowers, and bought cigarettes with the change, were also materially helping the Plunket Society, of which the Truby King Club is junior branch. All funds from the dance are to be handed to the Plunket Society for the welfare of soldiers' families and a committee spokesman reported this morning that the donation would be a good round sum.

A striking frock of navy silk striped in white, and featuring a crisp white mess jacket, was worn by the club's president, Miss Sylvia McLaren. Her committee comprised Misses June Lankshear, Patricia McNamara, Valeric Pope, Priscilla Levin, and Margaret Farra, and Messrs. M. Christie, W. Coombs, D. McGill, and W. Goodwin. The president and committee recorded appreciation of the management's generosity in lending the Majestic Cabaret for the night, and to the orchestra and staff, who volunteered

;heir services,