ANNUAL BALL

Evening Star, Issue 23352, 23 August 1939, Page 15

ANNUAL BALL

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS ENTERTAIN All the elements of a successful dance were combined in the annual ball of the Commercial Travellers’ Club, which was held on Friday evening at the Pioneer Hall. Music, floor, decorations, supper, and the spirit of the company were all excellent, and the ball was certainly the best the club has held. Floor shows included a tap ballet given by pupils of Miss Constance Potts, and an exhibition of ballroom dancing by Miss Kitty Eckhoff and Mr Garland. The principal members of the club and special guests were welcomed by the president (Mr Gordon Hewitt) ami Mrs Hewitt (who wore black taffeta and a small coatee, with fine cire stripes in fuchsia and emeraW). Her capo was of skunk fur. Seated with her in the lounge arranged at the far end of the hall were the mayor (Mr A. H. Allen) and Mrs Allen, Mr Horace M'Lean (past president), Mrs M'Lean, Commander Fraser (of the Royal Naval Reserve) and Mrs Fraser, and Mr and Mrs A. Smellie. The members of the Ball Committee included Messrs G. Avery (chairman), who was accompanied by Mrs Avery; the joint secretaries, Messrs E. Griffin and A. Strachan, who were accompanied by Mrs Griffin and Mrs Strachan, Mr and Mrs Gordon Blue, Mr and Mrs C. Mathias, Mr and Mrs J. Harvey Allan, Mr and Mrs W. Palmer, Mr and Mrs 0. Jarvis, Mr and Mrs A. Clapp, Mr and Mrs I). Blackie, Mr and Mrs O. Wood, Mr and Mrs J. Delbridge, Mr and Mrs M. R. Burt, Mr and Mrs E. G. Williams, Mr and Mrs 0. R. Hedges, Mr and Mrs J. R. Luff, Mr and Mrs J. Clements, Mr and Mrs T. Tomkins, Messrs H. Staton, E. Cameron, J. Holland. and J. Dickson. Among others present were Mesdamos P. B. Devereux, P. W. Walker,

S. C. Gourley, H. B. Webb, E. S. Solomon. Campion, W. S. Stewart, D. J. Brown. O. Hansen, Harman, W. J. AVinefield, Alfred Patterson, Stewart Downie. F. D. Harridge, B. C. Abernethy, C. B. Wight, Charles Bell, Harry Webb, James Gore, M‘Clatchy, J. Spiro, Lionel Stephens, G. Sanderson, E. A. Osborne, H. Smyth, A. D. Healy, E. J. D. AVilson, E. Shiel. T. H. Archibald, D. H. Cameron, R. Crocombe, U. Cameron, W. M. B. Veitch, Oswald Stephens, Albert Bidgood, B. Ledgerwood, A. Newall, E. A. Patterson, John W. Walls, H. J. Luff, Stanley Lex, C. P. AVilson, F. R. AVigney, E. Garland, R. AVnugh, John Brock, Arch. Ferguson, A. J. Smith, C. Sonntag, R. AVatsou, A. Michie, George T. Proctor, Faigan, Dick Coxhead, H. Smyth, and Signora Stella, Misses Bessie Gallien, Noelic Talbot, Mercia Hardman, llahna Jenkinson, Florence M'Curdy, M. Morgan, Juno Francis, S. Thomson, E. Garland, Joy Gillies, Helen AA r ood, Alison Gourley, Margaret M'Donald, Phyl Dyer, Mary Henderson (AVellington), Rittenberg, M. AVilliams, Ettie Martin, Betty Stokes, L Thorburn, Kathleen Goughian, Moyra Be vis, Rae Fairbairn, Margaret Greig, Shelagb Mooney, Betty Bell, Joy Knowles, M. Stewart, Alice Clarke, Phyllis AVhite, Nora Garty, Mary M'Cormack, Peggy Stark, Doreen Sharpe, Gwynn Lane, Margaret Bartholomew, Constance Potts, M. M'Bride, Margaret Treacy, Pat Strachan, Margaret Grey, AAL P. Smith, Rona AVood, Leone Bertenshaw.