LAVISH BALLS

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 48, Issue 2818, 5 October 1938, Page 2

LAVISH BALLS

BRILLIANT FINISH TO DERBY FLOWERS IN DECORATIONS Latest newspapers from London devote a column or so to the balls which took place after the Derby. To New Zealanders, the lavishness of the decorations and the huge attendances are something of an eye-opener. “Marianne Mayfayre,” 'writing in the Daily Telegraph on June 1, gives an impression of this splendour of the entertaining which is part of the charm of London social life.

The Palace ball to-night is to provide a brilliant finish to Derby Day, she writes. • Eight hundred guests are going. Some of them will watch the racing with the King and Queen at Epsom earlier in the day. To-morrow night (June 2), three hundred guests will dance in the firstfloor ballroom at No. 14 Princes Gate, at the dance being given by the American Ambassador and Mrs Kennedy. A pale golden table scheme has been planned for the dinner party for 80 people. Each of ten tables will be covered with pale yellow damask cloths, specially dipped to* get the right pastel shade.

In the centre of each table will be a silver candelabrum with pale gold candles. Rings of roses and sweet peas in pale yellow shades will surround them.

Shad roe has been brought from America to serve at this dinner party. The fish has something of the delcate flavour of salmon, and is grilled and served him with a sauce made of the roe. A Forest of Lupins The two eldest daughters of the Ambassador, Rosemary and Kathleen, will help receive guests. The younger children will go to bed before the ball starts. A stage is being built at one end of the ballroom for the band, which will perform turns in between dances. Guests will walk into a forest of lupins on arrival. The outer hall is to be decked with these flowers in different shades.

Pale mauve and pink blooms will make an attractive ballroom scheme. Flowers in all the flame tones will have an effective setting in the pinepanelled room which is to be used for sitting-out, together with the French room, which is to be decorated in pastel yellow shades. American dishes, including a favourite version of creamed chicken, will be served at the buffet supper. Mr and Mrs Kennedy and their two elder daughters will attend the ball at the Palace. Many Dinner Parties There will be many dinner parties to-night. Thirty-eight dinner hostesses are entertaining for one dance alone. It is being given by Lady Mary Clancarty for her daughter, Lady Alma Le Poer Tench, and for Miss Cynthia Moodie. D’ebutantes and their partners will have the choice of two ballrooms. Downstairs at the house in Stanhope Gate, where the dance is being held, an oak-panelled room is being transformed into a beer garden, where strolling musicians will play oldfashioned waltzes and other old-world airs for guests to dance to. Upstairs modern dance music will be played in the big ballroom, which is being decorated with white and yellow flowers.