HOSTESS FOR WEEKLY DANCE

Evening Star, Issue 22919, 29 March 1938, Page 11

HOSTESS FOR WEEKLY DANCE

MRS DOROTHY SAVIGNY AT TOWN HALL In the majority of the leading dance halls overseas the appointment of a regular hostess has proved a welcome and timely innovation, and there is every reason to believe that the decision of the management of the Tovvn Hall dance to have its own hostess will be, in every way, a decided acquisition, not only to local patrons, but more especially to visitors to Dunedin. For this important position the Town Hall dance has engaged the services of Mrs Dorothy Savigny, the present hostess of the Utopia Club. Although she has

been a resident of Dunedin for the past 10 years or so, Mrs Savigny, who is a niece of Colonel D. Coquhouu, D. 5.0., of Wellington, has travelled fairly extensively, and has had a somewhat varied and interesting career. Edinburgh is where she spent most of her girlhood, and for a short time she was on the stage.' At the King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, she appeared at the age of 16 in the pantomime production ‘ Dick Whittington,’ an entertainment which was particularly popular at the time, as the well-remembered Florrie Ford was a member of the east. During the war years Mrs Savignv served as a nurse, and after her marriage she came out to New Zealand. Among her other accomplishments Mrs Savigny is fond of music, and this, no doubt, can be attributed to heredity, for_ her father, besides being associated with a theatre orchestra, was bandmaster of the Legion of Frontiersmen Band m Edinburgh many years ago.