SYDNEY ARTISTS’ BALL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18999, 23 October 1923, Page 11

SYDNEY ARTISTS’ BALL.

QUESTION OF DECORUM. (From Oub Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, October 10. The recent artists’ ball in the Sydney Town Hall has, as was the one last year, been the talk of the town because of the reports which have appeared in the press concerning it. One paper said it was so proper and Inoffensive that one could have taken his grandmother to see it. But another paper created a ; stir by its exposure of what it alleges were'disgraceful incidents lit the function. The committee says the report was quite unwarranted; but that there was unseemly conduct in the basement is alleged also by the police, who point out, however, that everything was carried out with the utmost good taste and decorum on the main floor of the hall. It certainly appears to have been over-merry and bright down below. Towards 10.30 p.m , according to the police, a number of dancers) men and women, were showing signs of over-indulgence in liquor in the basement. There, at midnight, when spirituous liquors were seized by the police, a number of dancers were in various stages of intoxication, so the police say, and they do not appear to have sobered up when the lignts 'were put out at 2 a.m. Now the paper in opposition to the one which made all the fuss has opened its colmns daily to the question of what constitutes decent dancing, and whether f dancing is unhealthy. The artists’ ball will certaWly be remembered'.