“Parly Crashers”

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 212, 8 September 1936, Page 3

“Parly Crashers”

PEOPLE ON BLACK LIST Indignant London society hostesses tire banding together to combat "gatecrashers” who invade private parties uninvited. They have prepared a blacklist of offenders, which includes, it is understood, several well-known and titled young people. Other hostesses are employing lynx-eyed guards to keep out the crashers. At a recent party given by Lady Janet Bailey at Jlutlingham, a guard posted at the gate scrutinised the invitations and compared them with a typewritten list of guests. Those wno had mislaid their invitations were toid they could ring up Lady Bailey and give their identity. They would then be admitted if they had been invited, . A dozen or more people were turned away—and did not bother to telephone. Aliss Barbara Cartland, the famous society novelist, told the Sunday Chroncile of ingenious new methods employed by the “gatecrasher.” "Some of them hear of a dance or a party, and although they have not been invited, write to the hostess and say they will bo pleased to come,” she said. “They are reckoning on the possibility that tho hostess will be too busy to check up tho replies with her invitations.” One offender confessed to the Sunday Chroncile that she had been hard hit by the new rulings. "In three seasous I have crashed seventy parties,” said.