“THE ERRATICS”

Evening Star, Issue 20863, 5 August 1931, Page 9

“THE ERRATICS”

London had one of its strangest dances of tho season when tlio “ Erratics ” held a hall at tho Eccleston Hotel (says tho ‘Daily Mail’). When a reporter arrived at tho hotel ho was greeted by Sir James Erskine. When ho asked Sir James what the “Erratics” were, he answered: “Yon had better ask my son, Mr Keith Erskine.” Mr Keith Erskine, with a smile, replied that tho “ Erratics ” are a group of young men and women with unconventional ideas, who enjoy themselves in an original manner, such as going out for picnic parties before breakfast.

The dance was opened by bliss Pauline Gower, Mr Keith Erskino’s fiancee, who burst a largo balloon as a signal that tlio ball had begun. A few minutes late the young women were dancing with air balloons attached to the Item of their skirts, and as they danced the young men of other couples tried to stamp on tho balloons, while tlio laughing girls again and again cleverly whisked them out of their way.

At midnight, while the dancers were fox-trotting round the room, they were startled to see a number of men dressed in ordinary clothes rush in and close tho doors. People were forbidden to leave the ballroom, and one young man produced a notebook and started _to take names and addresses, explaining that a raid was being carried out by tho police. The surprised dancers later found out that this was done as a joke - , the “ officer ” in charge being a member of tho “ Erratics.”