LIFE IN LONDON.
BROOK HOUSE. Brook House, for Lady Helen Cassel's dance, might almost have been translated back a hundred years, we are told. Tho scene in tho white-and-gold ballroom was a whirl of slowly waltzing figures, the girls in long frocks which almost touched the ground, and tho young men looking younger than you would believe possible. This atmosphere of extreme youthfulness was tho most striking thing about the ball, remarks tho writer. So many of tho girls were wearing their hair just shoulder-length that they might have been fourteen or fifteen, instead of eighteen or so. I wonder if the young men wo found so fascinating when we came out appeared as incredibly youthful to our elders? There were six or seven hundred guests; and all of them wero either of debutante age, or mothers and chaperons; which was surprising, for I had thought to find some of my own generation. But thore woro nono.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20602, 28 June 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)
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