Flower Carnival

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7192, 26 June 1933, Page 2

Flower Carnival

Peers and peeresses took part on May ](j in the picturesque battle of flowers. The battle ground was a Park Lane ballroom, and the weapons employed thousands of spring and summer blooms culled largely from country houses. It was to bo the first Continental carnival ever staged in the West End, and wellknown hostesses, Beaded by Lady Carisbrooke, organised it. Tho ballroom was converted into the ‘‘place” of a Continental town, complete with brasseries, cafes and shops, and, as in tho French fetes, decorative head-dresses were a feature of the ball. Nine flower queens were in charge of the baskets of flowers for tlic battle, and each of them wav dressed to match her flowers, which were divided into nine colour groups. The carnival king and queen were drawn into the ballroom on a decorated wagon with the flower queens in attendance, and tho comic figures inseparable from Continental fetes, whose costumes were being copied from .French and Italian prints, were also represented.