ENGLISH VISITORS ENTERTAINED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 638, 15 April 1929, Page 5

ENGLISH VISITORS ENTERTAINED

Mis* A. Windham and Miss M. K. Wilson, English visitors to New Zealand in connection with the Girl Guide movement, were the guests of the executive committee of the Girl Guide Axeociation at the Lyceum Club on Thursday morning. Autumn flowers were arranged in the \liss Windham, whose brief speech about Guiding, was very interesting, jaid that she had discovered the New •Zealand Association to be suffering [rom an “inferiority complex.” Miss Windham’s own opinion was that New Zealand Guides compared favourably with those of all other countries. imong the other guests were: Mrs. Itov Wilson, Mrs. R. M. Tolhurst, Mrs. Etven Alison. Mrs. Ely. Mrs. Leys, Miss Trevithick. Mils Anderson and Miss gtatham. __

CRAZE FOR NOVELTY “THE PAINTED LADY" N’ovelty is the craze at the moment and hostesses view with one another in thinking out new cabarets, balls and cocktails. An old-fashioned simple party is unknown, writes “A Londoner.” A party which has set talktng was a Russian ballet dance given bv a mother for two debutante daughters. Tbe supper room had its tables set with jade green American cloth instead of table chilis and decorated with futurist orange, purple and red glass. A golden witch ball was offered as prize for the loveliest dress and it was won by a girl dressed in white organdi with enormous balloon sleeves and a futurist wreath of tulle lowers on her head. Her dress had a big sash of Romney blue ribbon. The runner-up was a lovely lady impersonating a ballet china figure. She had a short frock of white American cloth and had her face and hair covered with white shiny paint to imitate china glaze. Her lips were painted Mue and she cannot have been, entirely happy at supper time. ISoyd Cable, the well-known Australian novelist, can always be depended upon to be original in everything he does. At a party he gave in Kensington the other night he welcomed his guests wearing a dress-ing-gown, with a gardenia in the bimonhole. He remained in this odd attire until his guests departed in the early hours. The liquid refreshment consisted almost entirely ot' draught beer. It was served in a huge earthenware pitcher and consumed out of pewter pots.