COURT DEBUTANTES

Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1930, Page 3

COURT DEBUTANTES

! y ■ CpNTRAST WftpjJQ.LT> .DAYS. ' ; ; "''Exbdx, May 13. " Gone as the bluYllritgy nervous Court dejutante of yesterday, who with maidenly . modesty or Mnjpid,ity retreated into idle depths of SjSer. coach or car and ; endeavoured tB hide from public gaze until' her conveyance passed through the gates of Buckingham Palace. , , , vv Society’s: -.Talired® yjebutantes who at last evening’s brilliant court made their, first'cuftsip before their King and'i^tmeii,’;;hvpuliiiiiiifi ! 'ffi ;i t 'i ce( l -their granumotlions. >. fir TiAras'"'^^ {■ apd-Ti cFowclVaL 'watched';'the long procession of saloon cars wending their way to the palace.gatusv ;.The girls who were to be presented. w|i*e as beautiful as ever,'"hut modern freedom found full expression outside tiipi palace. yin contrast .with the deh.utsjritc of bygone days, /the girls showed no reluctance to be- photographed. Righted cigarettes were seen in some cg.t’s. The occupants of others, pass--s?d the period ojkwaiting with gramomusic or - pickL cjb-up on their portable 'wireless sets. \ ujjdany were reading evening papers orVnovels and a few ufere knitting or doing embroidery work,;' ; / ■(Another innovatimp.yas the use of loudspeakers at |ntrancp "to the palace for the purpose' of summoning cars after the ceremony. dDespite the modernism outside, the scpiie inside the palace was as stately afc-ever as the- debutantes were presented to their scarlet-uniformed King anil magnificently-gowned Queen, who sffiod bv goblen thrones on a scarlet apid gnld dais amid masses of hydrangeas under a golden canopy.