FIRE BRIGADE BALL

Taranaki Daily News, 9 August 1930, Page 10

FIRE BRIGADE BALL

CHILDREN IN FANCY ! DRESS. Usually a big: function’patronised by a large and. representative crowd, the annual ball held in the Town Hall on Thursday night by the Stratford Volunteer Fire Brigade attracted a poor attendance. This was probably attributable to the adverse weather and the fact that the ball comes towards the end of a loim list of similar functions. Several firemen from other Taranaki centres were present. Apart from the attendance, the ball was highly successful. The decorations, for which* red and black streamers were used, left nothing to be desired, the supper tables being attractively set out in blue arid white. Flowers and greenery supplied the finishing touches. . The upper was of the usual, high standard, and no fault could be found with the music played by ", McNeill’s orchestra. Firemen H. Cleaver, R. Boyd and D. Butcher were masters of ceremonies. . A more animated scene presented itself last night vvhen crowds, of children thronged theflbor'iin striking contrast + j the comparatively few adults who had danced the previous' evening. Many and varied/were the fancy dresses that graced the small forms and supplied the subject for considerable thought on the part of the judges, who were set a difficult task in', making the awards in the different sections. It was a children’s night out and they made the most of the function, which was one of the moot successful the Town Hall has accommodated this year. Catchy music with a swing and rhythm came from Marsh s orchestra. Messrs M. Thomson and F. Sanderson, and Miss K. Hynes played extras. Much credit is due to the committee of ladies for untiring efforts on both nights. Awards for fancy dressee were: Fancy dress. —Joan Joyes (Russian Dancer) 1, Dorothy Cook (Page) 2; Pat Villers (Pierrette). . Most original—W. Lamplough (Admiral) 1, Audrey Jones (Page) 2, Nancy Wilton (Old English Lady) 3. National dress—Nancy Pratt (Spanish Dancer) •1, Dorothy Joyes (Eastern Dancer) 2, Pat Branford (Dutch Girl) 3. Specials.—Gordon Mather (Gay Cab-

allero), Kathleen gisarich (Fairy), M. Fazackerley (Fairy), Belle Horn (Bell Boy), B. Branford (Nurse),. J. Allen ’(Father Christmas). CLAY BIRD SHOOTING.' ■ • POOR WEATHER CONDITIONS. A gusty wind and showers of rain provided very unfavourable conditions i for the shoot held by the Stratford Gun Club on Thursday. A 12-bird sweepstake counting for the Ballistite Cup’was divided by Messrs. •A. Nelson and A. E. Brown with 11. . birds each. , After. shooting off with B. • Green the-Western Cup shoot of 12 birds was won by G. A. Carter.' In the. double rise, six pairs.of birds, Nelson and Green; ' divided with 9 birds each.- Two Ameri--c a - shoots concluded the ' programme.': ■ One was, won-by Nelson with- 13 kills out ; of .14, and Brown carried- off the. other with 9 birds, out of 10. . . • KING’S THEATRE. : ALL-BRITISH TALKIE. The murder -.will-out- theory . iscvi’dontly dominant in the mind of ’the ■ great .English mystery writer, A. E. W. Mason,. whose . famous • story, “At the Villa Rose,” is now moving'and talking in a smooth voice at the King’s Theatre. The locale of' this - picture is picturesque Monte.'Carlo, and the story revolves around several people, chief among them? being the ..super mystery solver of the. Mason mind, Hanaud, Madam d’Auvry, Celia. Madame’s protege, Ricardo, a fop,, and Weathermill, a young man-about-town. The construction of this British Dominions' picture is particularly sound; and so logical.that one’s attentions can: be concentrated on three of the five lead-. ' irig characters mentioned above,. with-’ out the thought of haying one’s powers of detection ridiculed by some absolutely impossible development. “At the Villa ■ Rose” is a melodrama in every sense of the word, and, while the serious mom-- . e'nts are many, the .picture has a de-, ’lightful vein of humour' running through, it that is just as spontaneous as the fun that has characterised' : s'tich British talkies aS “Splinters”* and “Rookery Nook,” ELTHAM THEATRE. . “SLEEPING PARTNERS.”' A delightful all-talking farce comedy of innocent marital complications, “Sleeping Partners,” adapted from Sacha Guitry’s highly successful music hall sketch by Seymour Hicks, England’s greatest stage'comedian, will screen at the Eltham Theatre to-night. The sketch is transferred to the screen with all its scintillating wit, its amusing ■ dialogue, its piquant situations and its ' intimately witty atmosphere, and is ■ clean throughout. “The story tells of a well-to-do Parisian bachelor who falls in love with a beautiful young married woman and persuades her to visit his flat while her husband is out. When he kisses her she swoons. He rushes for sal volatile, but gives her a powerful opiate by mistake, and she sleeps soundly until morning. How the -bachelor succeeds in completely turning the tables - on the husband and establishing a satist factory ; alibi ’for- the wife. is. very clever and equally amusing. --