INFORMAL "AT HOME"

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 57, 5 September 1945, Page 10

INFORMAL "AT HOME"

RS. APPLETON RECEIVES

MANY GUESTS

1 Nearly 300 women were guests of (the Mayoress, Mrs. Appleton, at an "At Home," held in the Concert Chamber yesterday afternoon. Though it was the first party on a peacetime scale to be given by the Mayoress, it was not an official gathering, the majority of the women present being old friends of Mrs. Appleton and associates on the' various committees with which she has worked. The Mayoress, • who was wearing a two-piece suit of fine black wool with the jacket braided in white, was assisted in receiving the guests by her daughter, Miss Rosemary Appleton, and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. B. M Appleton. Exquisite flowers decorated the room. Blue hyacinths and trails of pink camellias were arranged on the two long buffet tables from which tea was served and the stage, was banked with rhododendrons, lycopodium, and hothouse plants, with a giant bowl of pink japohica on the stage itself. Throughout the afternoon incidental music was played by Mrs. M. Donnelly. Mrs. W. H. Stevens sang, with Mrs. S. Hunter playing accompaniments, and Miss Ena Rapley also entertained with vocal solos, with. Mrs. Donnelly as accompanist. -• ;