LONDON'S "CRAZY DINNER"

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21716, 3 February 1934, Page 13 (Supplement)

LONDON'S "CRAZY DINNER"

THREE CHAIRMEN APPEAR FLEET STREET EXPERIMENT A " crazy dinner " has been held in Lon Jon. It was in keeping with the tastes of an ago which honours crazy painting, crazy sculpture, crazy music and crazy entertainments, and tho perpetrators were the members of the Fledt Street Press Club. Sl.range bugle calls, finishing with " o:ficers' wives have puddings and pies,," summoned the guests to table. Thejre they found crazy bottles leaning like so many miniature Towers of Pisa, and a menu —of which alternate pages went printed upside down and the frontispiece was at tho back —forewarned the diners of dishes as plaii:e " fresh from Loch Npss." A toastinastcr, correct in pink, but otherwise curiously garbed, and adorned with Orders unknown to chivalry, fcade tho guests receive their chairman, though not one but three chairmen appeared. They were Mr. J. T. Bolton, chairman of the club, Mr. Percy Rudd and Mr. A. P. Garland. Mr. Charles Grave was responsible for the menu. In the corner was the tall hat, with deep crepe band, which caricaturists like to place on the head of lhe " Kill Joy." At a table were depicted two sad revellers, and from the mouth of one a " balloon " with the words, " I'm behaving humorous. Wh'r don't you laugh?" There was no need for tho admonition, for the guests thoroughly entered into "the gaity of the evening and the experiment was a great success.