Communal Entertaining

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17953, 3 December 1932, Page 10

Communal Entertaining

ENTERTAINING, once a matter arL ranged entirely by the hostess unci members of her own family and staff, is at Home this winter the subject of businesslike meetings of a large number of hostesses. Private parties arc so few that women are putting all their efforts into ensuring the success of communal entertaining, which is taking the form of charity balls. Some'of next year’s debutantes arc being brought out at the charity balls. The unwritten law- of giving a private ball or choosing an exclusive hunt ball for a young girl’s debut is thus being broken, and the number of hostesses >vho are economising on the bringing-out of their daughters is ■growing as tlio season advances. So little use is likely to be made of the famous ballrooms and drawingrooms of London’s remaining great houses that hosts and hostesses from the highest in the land are glad to have them put to practical use by lending them for the meetings of the mammoth committees organising charity balls, dinners, and matinees. An average committee consists of .100 well-known hostesses, and thorc arc committees of 150 and 200 women. Efforts are being made to recapture the brilliance of the days of private entertaining at charity functions.