WESTOWN BALL

Taranaki Daily News, 24 August 1935, Page 17 (Supplement)

WESTOWN BALL

CHILDREN IN FANCY DRESS. BRILLIANT ARRAY OF COSTUMES. Colour and life and, movement held full sway at the We-’iwri Hall on Thursday when the children of the Westown school held their annual fancy dress ball. The children, garbed in a great variety of fancy costumes ranging from the dainty and beautiful to the comic and original, entered thoroughly into the spirit of the occasion, enjoying themselves to their hearts’ content, while the numerous well designed and executed costumes showed that during the .past few weeks the parents, too, had don; their share. As usual there was a large number of parents and elder brothers and sisters present. They, too, had a very enjoyable time, for the scene was a picturesque one, , as the children threaded the mazes of the many dances, in which their proficiency ■ was a tribute alike to their own skill , and the tuition they had received from tie ‘eaching staff, which comprised Messrs. F. ’W. Gilligan (head)/ A. V. Gilbert, Misses,M. H.awkes, T. Slyfield, I. Taylor and B. Hawkins. ’ The children: had the floor to themselves during the early part of the evening. The grand march was led by Robin Hood and an >ld English lady, who had in their train representatives of all nations as well as fairies, golliwogs, pirates, wheeelbarrdw derbies, animals, etc. Mr. A. V. Gilbert was master of ceremonies, arid the music <ras provided , by Miss Mischefski (piano) and Mr. L. Smith (drums). The dances by the children included You are Welcome,, Cobblers’ Dance, Pease Porridge, Will y-u Please be my Partner?, Sellingers Round, Come Little Partner, Chimes of Dunkirk, linger Polka and Chinese Dance by the junior pupils and Capt. Jinks, Sellinger’s Round, Indian Queen and Butterfly by the senior pupils. The supper arrangements were attended to by a committee under the supervision of Mesdames F. W. Marsden and W. F. Southam. The tables were tastefully decorated with spring flowers, which harmonised with the streamers of green and gold, the school colours. Prior to the adults taking the door, Mr. L. T. Aylward, chairman of the school committee, expressed the thanks of the committee to the staff, the parents, the women’s committee and all who had assisted to make the ball the success it was. The children present included:— Primers: Eh an Simpson <Miss Muffetz, Norma Stewart (.Fairy Queen), Liane Eagles (Chicken),, Margaret McKenzie (Night Fairy), Betty Southam (Jested’ Nola King (Gipsy), Jill Seldon (Dutch boy) Leslie Howarth (Cowboj), Graeme. Deighton (Cowboy), Frank Lender (Spider web), Ted Handley (Indian), Brian Leighton (Chinese), Don Evans (Pierrot), Margaret Ward (Pierrette), Robin Dumbell (Drum Major', . pencer King (Dutch Boy) Lois Baker (Japanese), Fay Rowe (Page Boy), Shirley Winchcombe (Pier-, rette). Colin Row* (Dwarf), Peter Gray

(Matador), Bob Smith (Chinese), Graham Kirk (Harlequin), John Bates (Soldier), Maurice Bumand. (Cowboy), Ken Daker (Page Boy), Margaret Gredig (Dutch Girl), Philippa Mander (Bumble Bee), Pauline Harrigan (Bridesmaid), Joyce Rowe (Flower GirD, J. Harrigan (Carnation).

Standard I .:—Brian Clarke (Sailor), Trevor Davies (Cowboy), Rodney Evans (Fireman), Don Nielson (Indian), Billy Wills, (plain), Basil Revel (Clown), lan Stewart (Chinese), Laurie Burnand (bailor), Terry Lcbb (Jockey), Alan Milham (Clown),.. Leslie Parr (Cowboy), Sonia Arnold (Fairy), Joan (Judy), Gloria Bocock (Fairy), Margaret Codd (Pierrette), Pat Coleman (Victorian), Janet Grant (Daffodil), Joyce Klenner (Red Riding Hood), Beverley Lobb (Fairy), Daphne Mavor (Dutch), Betty McEwen (Japanese), Elwyn Tancred (Spanish), Rosemary Wiggins (Hungarian), June Parr (Workbag),’ .vis Lobb (Victorian), Kathlyn Wagstaff (Red Riding Hood), Gloria Wilson (Columbine), Aileen, Pillette (Flower Girl), Valerie Hoyle (Victorian)., Standard 2:—Sonia Lovell (Columbine), June Gredig (Old English Lady). Peggy J ritchell (Night), Noeline Pipe (plain), Lucy • Gordon (Geisha Girl), - Jocelyn Hodges (Boy Golliwog), Sylvia Mills (Queen of Hearts), Alison Tait (Fairy), Nancy Blackhall (Red, White and Blue), Joan Gray (Dutch Boy), Doris Gear (Pattern Girl), Phoebe Re' 11 (Lady), Kathleen Miller (Gipsyi), Kura Darby (Balloon Girl), Iris James (Flower Girl), Laura Handley (Balloon Girl), David Mitchell (Gondolier), Gordon .Bates (Pirate), Geoffrey. Parr (Clown), Robert Daniels (Aladdin), Roger Church (Cowboy), George Grant (Clown), Jim King (Tram Conductor), Murdoch Roy (Bunny), Pat Lander (Fox), Leo Symmons (plain). Standard 3: Pamela Arnold (Butterfly), Eileen Brown (Country Girl), Gwen Codd (Pierrot), Betty Daniels (Waitress), Joan Darney (Harlequin), Colleen Dav--ies (Irish Collee’ >, Beryl Davies (Party Frock), Robin Epping (Hawaiian Girl),’ Mary Foster (Hawaiian Girl). Margaret Froggatt (Black and White Pierrot), Phyllis Gear (Ukulele* Lady), Zelda Lobb (Eastern Lady), Joy Loveridgi (Mystery Pierrette), Dulcie Parr (Red Riding Hood), Annette Penn (Chinese), Lillian Symmons (Party Frock), Claudia Sole Girl), France. Southam (Rainbow), Shirley Trebes (Spanish Dancer), Gwen Turnbull (Witch), Betty Winchcombe (English Ballet), Marion Wiggins (Clown), Nora Wood (BlacK Topsy), lan Dalgleish (Page-boy), Robert Davie (Red Indian), Edward Frost (Clown), Neville Gardiner (Archer), Teddy Gordon (Forester), Leslie Hartley (Indian), Herbert Higgins (Pirate), Joseph James (Nigger), Graham Lobb (Cricketer), Max Lobb (Tennis Player), Maxwell Morrison (Cricketer), Jim Poynter and Hugh Poynter (Wheelbarrow Derby), Billy Prestney (Cook), Ron Shepherd (Chinese), Douglas Zumbach (Tramp), Don Sole (Chinese), Rex Tancred (Chinese). Standard 4: Stewart Bates (Blue Devil), Maurice Cotter (plain), Bryan Croker (Dutch Girl), Keith Gredig (Girl), Williarn James (plain), Reg Klenner (plain), Richard Knight (plain), Keith I

Leighton (Japanese), Norman Lock (.plain), Donald Mavor (Drum Major), lan McEwen (Cricketer), Lawrie .Miller (An Ok. Woman), Alan Mills (plain), Barry Roebuck (Cricketer), Edward Somerville (plain), Arthur Squire (plain), Williams Winks (plain), Ralph Whitwell (plain), Philip Wood (plain), Robert Wynyard (Robin Hood), Maisie Allridge (Italy), Shirley Arnold (Chinese Girl), Kathleen Bitske (plain), Noleen Clarke (Dutch Girl), Nava Coad (Golfer), Frica Croker (Operatic Dancer), Joan Duncan (Star Fairy,, Veda Garcia (A Knitting-bag), Monica Hall (Legionaire Soldier), Jean MacKenzie (Elf), Alison McQueen (BoPeep), Nancy McQueen (Pierrette), Shirley Roy (An Ascot Lady), Edna Rutter (Peasant), Patricia Southam (Egyptian Lady), Lilian Hutchinson (Prince Charming), Nancy Strang (Star Fairy), and Mavis Parr.

Form I.: J. Dumbell (Uncle Sam), F. Hartley (plain), J. Huggett (plain), O. Lander (Mexican), R. H. Poynter (Wheelbarrow Derby), R. Mackinder (Carpenter), L. Shepherd (Tramp), I. Thomson « ricketer), H. Andrews (plain), P. Baker (plain), B. Church (Hungarian Peasant), L. Coleman (Moon Princess), D. Darney (plain), B. Davies (Prince of Sunland), S. Morrison (Romance), I. Loveridge (Pompadour Pierrette), D. Parr (Evening Frock), J. Smith (plain), R. Symmons (Jac? in the Bean Stalk), M. Tait Early Victorian Lady), B. Turnbull (Pierrette), Ulander (Syncopated Sue), V. Wagstaff (Gipsy), Velda Brown (plain), Eiola Clarke (Evening Frock), Sylvia Kitchingman (plain), Yvonne Lovell (plain), May Mclntyre (plain), Peggy McIntyre (plain), Thelma Milham (plain), Dorothy Andrews (Balaret), Joan Strang Form 2:" H. Alldridge (Cricketer), J. Church (Cricketer), N. Duncan (Pierrot), S. Garcia (plain), F. Gredig .plain), M. Lobb (Cricketer), K. MacKenzie (Cricketer), J. Penn (Chinese), N. Prestney (plain), J. Ridland (Cricketer), C. Wiggins (Indian), B. Winchcombe (Dutchman), P. Cronin (Pierrot), R. Handley (Pierrot), J. Kelly (Christmas), B. Roebuck (Teacher), E. Shaw (plain), F. Turnbull (plain), W. Revell (plain).