"PLANTATION NIGHT."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20556, 6 May 1930, Page 16

"PLANTATION NIGHT."

CHARITY CLUB CARNIVAL.

Many novel decorative schemes have been chosen by the Auckland Retail Shop Assistants' Charity Club, for its weekly dances, and the carnival held in Scots Hall last evening was a scene of brilliant colour. Decorated to represent a plantation sceno, tho walls of tho hall were massed with bamboo foliage and palms, these also flanking the entrance lobby and tho doorways. At the back of tho stage were hung long green and yellow panels covered with nigger minstrels' heads, and other smiling blackfaces were to be soon ov<;r the front of tho gallery and round lho walls. The lights were shaded with green and yellow streamers, and clusters of multi-coloured balloons which were suspended overhead were later showered among the dancers. Looking very quaint and in complete harmony with the decorative scheme, were the members of the Versatile Pirates' Orchestra, with their blackened faces, small coloured hats and immenso green and red bow ties, while the music they played consisted of well-known plantation melodies, syncopated to suit the. modern dance steps. Minstrels' hats and other novelties were distributed during tho evening. Tho members of the committee who were present were:—Miss Purccll, who wore black georgette; Miss Steinmetz, deep orange georgette with Chinese embroidered coatee; Miss Cunningham, apple-green taffeta; Miss Edgecumb, cinnamon georgette; Miss Littlejohn, Royal blue chiffon velvet; Mrs. Thomson, black panne velvet; Mrs. Burgess, black moire silk; Miss Christie, lemon net with slanted yoke of pastel ribbon. Also present .were: —Mrs. Bauckhani, vice-presi-dent of the Interhouse Girls' Sports Association, who woro lemon sequinned georgette, and Miss Whittaker, secretary, who was in amber embossed chenille georgette.