ONLY FOR A NIGHT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15056, 27 July 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

ONLY FOR A NIGHT.

ire BRILLIANT BALL teX / - § ROYAL GUESTS, "•ft One of the most brilliant balls of tv j ''" 1$ sent Mason was given a i£ 1; at Surrey House by I*rd Rihbjx M M i entertainment being i a honour J* ** £& ■ youngest and only miir^^.^-.llitlE Lord Ribbiesdale, who is one of if** 11 ' ■ picturesque figures in London S J Bn *' M an artist to his finger-tip* T^' » superintended all ihe-d e^^|^P§S|: : requiring little assistance from },?*, H? I* ter, Lady Lovat, or his Mt w W\ : Asquith. Surrey House is, aa JJ- tfi'- Insetting for a great entertainment 11 * I *. • Wt ' late Lord Batte-rsea erected a',l? It" staircase and a lofty ballroom, B rate parquet floor. The mansion wj f* H aver, transformed beyond recogiiiS, — IE night, for Lord Ribblesdale bftSfif '*' £"■• priceless collection of picturesW™** 'IK burn, as well as pictures, tansrifT "*<' H objets d'art, and was thus' cSm 1 $1' totem in London amid the W% of his ancestral homo in YorkshWT*- 11 Fine examples of the art of U, t» 1 mm : burn, Russell, and other pciraj/j'-#■' &•»' hung on the walls, genuine rore reflected the gay drefse* of a,?? 6 '* 11$ eers and in the card and sittmjwint ; fe% antique settees, and fauteuils ft. Wi ginal old brocade upholstery took the i 1 *' S of the up-to-date gilt chairs or seat, F*', Hi liar in latter-day ballrooms. N 0 L*?*' ; K : note was allowed to jar the « 6 ~ "$' J' : & the general seventeenth century a>* 'US sphere which prevailed.'"' , 4ia ' -»ll - Even in the minstrels' galtay v ■ WL Heir Gyula Box horn's Viennese ' Wm installed, early 17th-century rout «, 1! *! MP-' stools were provided for ■ 0»'. aJfiff Hi and on buffets and supper tables foair ' W& less family plato of the Conmu?aff ei ,jfJ r ?i" Hh Jacobean periods was used. ( > *** Sm ■ The guests drank their <lrajl!| ' k*4. champagne from aid WaterfopElßal piece of which was worthy of & «Jfcfi*!'' ! TH| cabinet. There were no tower* in A mat supper rooms, the circular tahla .-i-l* In for their adornment on treasured ■■f|B bowls of "' famille rose" china luscious fruits and flanked: with *!&l- ip topers set in old silver 9 stairway was, however, covered by*W'H§ rustic trellis, in which roses ana-ttj^! B MXwere'entwined, giving the effect of*!»?& SI ing hedge of blossom - m HI All fashionable London was mr} Prince Arthur,, the Grant! Date "SS" si' Countess Torby, Countess Zia avid PtoSS **" Pless were : discernible among. lbs dwSh Hi The .Duchess of Norfolk, ;.MariHp«§ Westminster, Portland, sutherlaai , a3''Bl Wellington were representative* ot jMh, B ducal houses. v* Br Mrs. Asquith came with the PricwilitiMfr ister and Miss Asquith, and was «{ tfe Btj help to the boat's two f'.-tugiit/org. Ijs» Lovat and Mrs. Mathew. WilEori, ia »£''»'! taining the 500 guests. Lady fifllH Lady Dudley both gave big dinntt-, •** S ; the dance, aid Lady Alington, lAdy.£j^ : {KH bun-, Lady Brnasey, Lady Ui<Mtai9H Lady Londesborough brought J dapm&tfi^K : ! tho last named also chaperoning k