CHILDREN’S GALA NIGHT

Taranaki Daily News, 14 September 1934, Page 2

CHILDREN’S GALA NIGHT

'CENTRAL SCHOOL BALL HELD HAPPY PUPILS IN FANCY DRESS. COLOURFUL SIGHT PRESENTED. Last night was gala night for several hundreds of New Plymouth Central school children. About seven o’clock the roads leading to the Coronation Hall were enlivened by odd little figures in every sort of outlandish costume, all hastening in chattering excitement to the scene of the fancy dress ball which the Central School Committee has made an annual fixture. „ A child that is permitted to “dress up in mother’s old-fashioned skirt and to parade in her hat with the big ostrich plume, feels almost that there is nothing left to desire. But when it wears the uniform of a dashing hussar, or a tram conductor, or a fairy, and is taken to a brightly decorated hall where all its friends are dancing, then happiness grows almost hectic. Home work has never been, to-morrow’s school is weeks ahead and “teacher” dances with everyone. For supper there is fruit salad and red jelly and sandwiches and cakes oozing with cream. Judging from enthusiastic comments and from laughing faces it was one of the most successful as well as the most colourful balls of the season. Only one fault was found with it. “Gosh,” said one small dancer, “it’s too early to go home yet.” The dance was run by the Central School Committee and members of the staff acted as masters of ceremonies. Mrs. W. Huggett, assisted by a willing band of helpers, was responsible for the supper arrangements. Music was supplied by McNeill’s orchestra. After the children had left a dance for adults was held. Messrs. J. O. Turner and A.- Feakins were masters of ceremonies. Children at the dance were:—

Primer 1:' Pamela Thomson (military girt), Beverley Abbott (fairy), Elva Lawson (fairy), Thelma Hardy (fairy), Joyce George (fairy), Mary Woodward (fairy), Jean Smythe (fairy), Mavis Harris (fairy), Clarence Oliver (cowboy), Arthur Lester (dragon), William Shiells (cowboy), Aubrey Fowler (cowboy), Desmond Mailman, Murray Power (gentleman). Primer 2: Elaine Baillie (elf), Nola Smythe (old fashioned lady), Fay McGlashan (evening dress), Margery Shaw (fairy), Myrna Moverley (fairy), Dorothy Suthon (fairy), Dorothy Withers (Evening), Noeline Rawlinson (Irish colleen), Meryl Hopkinson. (Bluebell), Roy Shaw (schoolboy), Donald King (sailor), Noel Sykes (pierrot), Brian Sykes (Dutch boy), Donald Andrews (pierrot), Donald McLean (schoolboy), Miltop Edwards (cowboy), Kevin Byers (cowboy), Terence McKeon (clown). Primer 3: Lean Teplitzsky (page boy), Lilian Dewdney (pink fairy); Margaret Terrill (poppy), Desiree Bennett (star fairy), Betty Thomson (carpenter), Betty TUson -(Little 80-Peep), Leonie Swanson (pink lady), Lynette King (red fairy), Josephine Brooks (Betty Blue), Valda Pentecost (pierret), Joyce Weller (black velvet), Pat. Barriball (Hawaiian girl), Joyce McKoy (pierrette), Eleanor Burke (flower girl), Harold McNiven (tin soldier), Tom Giles (cowboy), Alf Attrill, Gordon Watson (Red Indian), John Fairey (pierrot), lan Giles (cowboy), Ray Clarke (pierrot), Jack Nicholson (pierrot), Rex Berry (clown), Dennis O’Neill, Dennis Cox, George Meuli (cowboy). 1 Primer 4: Eric Riding (cowboy), Billie Murray (pirate), Bruce Horsup (cowboy), Gordon Webber (cowboy), Laurie Geden, Brian Williams (sailot), Douglas Shippey (cowboy), Pixie Griffith (fairy), Beverley Knight (artist), Ruth Goodwin (fairy), Margaret Fairey (pierrette). Dolly King (80-Peep), Gloria Taylor (fairy), Marjorie Hoskin (Bluebell), Jacqueline Sturm (hula girl), Jill Howell (pierrette), Ruby Curtis (pack of cards), Mavis Collingwood. Standard IB: Aline Bransgrove (old fashioned lady), Elizabeth Woodward (White Rabbit), Dawn Clarke (ballet dancer), Doreen Cottam (early Victorian), June Russ (fairy), Joyce Bell (bridesmaid), Jean Cross (hostess), Doreen Smith (Chinese), Dorothy Grounds (fairy), Valda Lawson (young lady), Isabella Hook (old fashioned lady), Gay Peterson (fairy-tale princess), YvOnne Lester (80-Peep), Fae Bennett (pink lady), Shirley Allom (Gypsy girl), David Thomas (aeroplane), Bob Ardem (pierrot), Arthur Byers (young man), Jack Lancaster (gardener), Donald looker (Cub), George Taylor (Gypsy), Peter Leane (pierrot), Desmond Andrews (sailor), Keith Andrews (carpenter), Max Moverley (cricketer), Ronald Quay (young man), Don Taylor (ghost), Cyril Holder (pierrot), Calvyn West (artist). Standard 1A: Lorraine Aboott, Wilma Mowat, Iris Mailman, Daphne Wright, Nancy Papps, Barbara Haughton, (Gypsy), Margaret Jarvis (rainbow fairy), Valerie Harle (Central School), Lydia Barnes (Frivolity), Pamela Youngman (Quakeress), Beryl Cox (old fashioned lady), Joan Mace (Joy), Adrienne McDonald (star fairy), Betty Smythe (page boy), Harley Land, Kenneth Birch, John Elliott (admiral), Denis Matthews (naval officer); Alfred Plim, Arthur Soar, Gordon Cursons, John Withers, Oscar Cross. , e Standard 2B: Joyce Allen (Ace of Hearts), Valmarie Burrow (Irish colleen), Ngaere Croll (Dutch girl), Joan Duxfield (summer), Avis Hawke (sunset); Eileen Horsup (old English lady), Doone Howell (ballet girl), Andrea Jones (spring), Myrtle Harl (golliwog), Margaret Kerr (water fairy), Noline Lawson (cherry blossom), Daphne Mailman (old English lavender), Jean McNiven (jingle bells), Peggy Nixon (flower girl), Corinne Okey (old fashioned geiitleman), Dorothy Shaw (fairy), Noeline Steptoe (old fashioned lady), Shirley Sykes (pierrette), Sylvia Terrill (fairy). Patricia Wade (grass fairy), Betty Walter (fairy), Doreen Watson (orange), Thelma Wood (pierrette), Leslie Batten (tramper), Max Beamish (cricketer), Eric Land (buttons), Donald McDonald (Redskin), Paddy O’Neill t cowboy), Cecil Potter (cowboy), Andrew Sheat (pirate), Rex McGiven (admiral).

Standard 2A: Thelma Prestney (Little MLss Muffet), Joyce Black (Gypsy girl), Diana Moore (Polly-put-the-kettle-on), Peggy Knight (harem lady). Jean Anderson (pierrette), Decima Cattley (pink fairy), Gwen Jury (beach girl), Gea Gallagher (spring), Dolce Pruden (pink fairy). Olga Sharrock (old English lady), Jean Lander (carnival bells), Joan Boulton (Chinese woman), Peter Williams (golliwog), Nelson Firth (soldier), lan Julian (zebra), Eric Rutherford (jockey), Jack Wheeler (cricketer), Teddy Milne (cowboy). Frank Koch (cricketer), Joe Hammdnd (cowboy).

Standard 3B: John Benrpch (Cub), Mervygne Clark, Don Graham, Miles King (tennis player), Alex Lancaster (French policeman), Desmond Lowrie, Jim McKoy (cricketer), Stan McKeon, Charlie Revell, Don Sutherland (cowbov), Ivon Sturmey (cricketer), Jack Shaw, Barbara Bewley (page), Marie Boon (old fashioned lady), Evelyn Curtis (clown), Audrey Emeny (changing of the Guards), Mona Gilbert (Irish colleen), Valerie Gruzning (queen), Joyce Harvey (Gypsy), Winnie Holden (bride), Beryl Inns (fairy), Kaiana Moffett (Gypsy fortune teller), Yvonne Morey (snowflake), Barbara Nicholson (fluffy ruffles). June Peterson (fluffy ruffles), Hilda Wade (water fairy), Dul-

cie Webber (page girl), Thelma Wheeler (columbine), lola Williamson (Gypsy). Standard 3A: Erice Ardem (pierrette), Ailsa Armstrong (fancy dress), Mavis Bullot (one. little girl in blue), Melya Falk, Shirley Johnston (daffodil), Maisie Mclntyre (patchwork), Betty Milner (photography), Claribelle Marley (ballet girl), Mary Mowat (Dutch girl), Cassie Price, Daisy Reed (Russian girl), Nola Wheeler (golliwog), Nancy Drake (evening dress), Peggy Vollheim (evening dress), Mary Cursons, Neville Baker (cricketer), Harold Bishop, Murray Blanchett (cricketer), Brian Bridger (cricketer), Alfred Clark (cricketer), Brian Diinkley (pirate), Ivan Hardgrave, Vincent Harrison, Neville Movefley, Roy Sharp, Cecil Sharrock (pirate), DWid Sykes (cricketer), George Tremie tt (jockey), Harold Tuson (pierrot), Dudley Griffith (pirate), Clinton Baillie (Indian). , . Standard 4b: Joyce Hardgrave (evening dress), Nanty ShaW (evening dress), Eliza Mowat (Irish jig), Rosemary Wilson (wood fairy), Bernice Sarteh (Irish colleen), Joy Johnston (autumn), Dorothy Hurley (evening dress), Evelyn Steffensen (maid of honour), Loris Julian (evening dress), Kathleen Crockett (party frock), Margaret Johnson (evening dress), Dinah Allen (Chinese lady), Dorothy Woodward (shepherdess), Shirley Hawke (evening dress), Oma Sissoh (Dolly Varden), Nola Goodwin (lonesome doll), Evelyn Hadland (pierrette), Eunice Weston, Jack Waters (Dutch boy), Max Carney' (cowboy), Noel Batten, Douglas Attril, Jack Simmons, Owen Jones (cook), Neale Turner (pierrot), Peter WilSon (schoolboy), Elliot Masters, Gordon Edwards (Scout), Fred. Baird, Gordon Taylor, Conrad Jury. Standard 4a: Richard Stephens (Lord Nelson), Victor South (cricketer), Bill Lawson (Cub), Sid Pentecost (cricketer), Don McGiven (cricketer), Ted Pentecost (gendarme), Don Hodder (Chinese), Arthur Standish (cricketer), Bert Mason (Boy Scout), Verna Fox (ballet girl), Verna Maclean (Bluebell), Eileen Pfestney (ballet dancer), Margaret Geary (evening costume), Joan Loveridge (pierrette), Pat Cattley (autumn), Frances Foden (jazz pierrette), Molly Morley (beach girl), Betty Webster (pierrot), Betty Hodgson (cherry blossom), Pat Waters (ballet dancer), Annette Jones (shepherd), Lulu Mclntyre (80-peep), Barbara Hawkins (Greek girl), June Winiki (evening dress), Alison Sheat (Madam Butterfly), Harry Wheeler (tennis playdr), Verna Fox, Betty Hodgson, Jock O’Neil, Les Harvey, Hazel Burke, Betty Lucas, Loma Sharp, Quita McCauley. Form lc.: Peggy Cox (Plantagenet period), June Milner (folly), Erice Webster (Dutch girl), Mae Nicholson (Italian peasant), Joan Berry (Hawaiian girl), lima Blackhall (gipsy), Eileen Moffett (cherry blossom), Del Callaghan, Noreen Maxwell (grass fairy), Rita Blackhall (gipsy), Winnie Clow (Egyptian), June Clarke (ballet girl), Dorothy Mills (Spanish girl), Dotis Allen (pierrette), Rona Rowland, B. Autridge, H. Mundt (cricketer), R. Hooker (cricketer), D. Baker, A. Burke, D. Sheat, K. Macdonald, B. Clarke (cricketer), Ray Carsons (cricketer), Ross Okey (pirate), Philp Gallaher (cricketer), lan Hardy (gipsy), Graham Fiddis (rajah), lan Falk (cowboy). Form lb.: Sylvia Aldous, (rosette). Naomi Baillie (guard of arcady), Noelehe Burrell (old-fashioned man), Rae Duxfield (spring),.Beverley Fyfe (Dutch girl), Merle Julian (ballet girl), Evelyn Lawson (Japanese), Muriel Mackay (changing of the guard), Violet Quay (Irish girl), Joan Sykes (Dutch peasant), Joyce Wheeler (Japanese), Daphnd Emeny, Zora Mailman, Nola Jones, Nola Bellringer, M. Goodwin (pierrot), A. Lancaster (cricketer),'

Form la.: Unice Cooper (fairy), Joy Burrows (Venetian), Athalie Burrows (guard), Betty Byers (Oriental dancer), Gar Stone (burglar), Enid Leighton (ballet dancer), Elaine Moverley (tap dancer), Marie Lacey (witch), Gladys Harrison (cavalier), Doreen Reed (fairy), Connie Firth (fairy), Kathleen Allardyee (fisher girl), Connie Burwell (Morris dancer), B. Conway (Red Indian), P. Bennet (cricketer), B. Melhose (cricketer), F. Girling (cricketer), C. Thomson (cricketer), R. Baillie (tennis player). Maurice Sykes (pierrot), Claude Weston (cricketer), Cuthbert Geldarel (Mexican). Form 2b.: Joy Peterson (Bambarina), Yvonne Bertrand (old-fashioned lady), E. Hurley (Boy Scout), R. Payne (chewing gum), B. Jones (cricketer), D. Chartetis (cricketer), E. Davies (Jack Tar), K. Jones (cricketer), H. Boulton (cricketer), D. Sandford (cricketer). Form Il.a: Lesley Wood (poppy land

maiden), Jean Inns (Oriental maiden), June Utiger (Kate Greenaway), Marie Holgerson (Hawaiian maid), A. Roberts (highwayman). D. Allofn (Ali Baba), A. Wilkinson (Chinaman), N. Hardgrave (pidrrot), B. Cleaver (cricketer), J. Cattky (cricketer), D. Blackley (Chinese mandarin).