STRATFORD CLUB'S BALL

Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1930, Page 10

STRATFORD CLUB'S BALL

EFFECTIVE DECORATIVE SCHEME Discarding the tactics of the football field where forceful use of the f eet is most fitting, members of the 8 trail ord Football Club gathered in the town hall last night to use their feet in accordance with tjie intricacies or otherwise of‘‘oldtime” and modern dunces. The occasion was the annual bail, which attracted a large crowd of members and friends as well as visitors from kindred clubs. As. might be expected the ball was a great success and a fitting finale to a season throughout which the Stratford team maintained the high traditions of the club. The hall was beautified with an effective decoration scheme. From a square centre piece • with dropped centre amber and .black streamers were intricately looped to the sides of the hall, where pendant red and black streamers set' off the sides of the hall. Added where they were most attractive were coloured lights, greenery and Chinese lanterns. - • ' McNeill’s orchestra played for the dances which were controlled by Messrs. R. Fryday and D. Young. INTER-CLUB GOLF MATCH. - ELTHAM TO PLAY OPUNAKE. The following Eltham golf players will visit Opunake for a ‘week-end match: Abbott, H. Casey, Darling, Clemow, Jefcoate, Tiplady, J. Campbell, E. Carter, R. H. Free, R. Ritter. ' SENSATIONAL TALKIE. KING’S THEATRE PROGRAMME. Two directors and the wife of a noted actor are in Ruth Chatterton's supporting cast in 'her all-talking film, “Madame X,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s sensation version of the famous stage drama which will be shown at the King’s Theatre for the last time tonight. The new picture is a vivid talking adaptation by Willard Mack of the stage play and features developments in talking screen technique. The cast is a large and a notable one with many stage and screen celebrities. Lewis Stone, a famous stage actor before he adopted the screen as his medium of dramatic expression, plays the hard, relentless “Floriot,” the husband of “Madame X,” who casts her off for her one indiscretion, causing her downfall, a gradual degradation that reaches the depths of murder. Raymond Hackett plays her son, whom she abandons in babyhood and dees not see again until he is a practising attorney at the French bar and, without knowing who she is, pleads her case at the court of justice.