ART SOCIETL’S BALL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17010, 7 April 1923, Page 3

ART SOCIETL’S BALL.

BRILLIANT SCENE IN ART GALLERY. An Arts Ball, wherever it may be held, is always looked upon as the most brilliant and enjoyable function of its kind, and that held in the Art-Gallery last evening, under the auspices of the Canterbury Society of Arts did nothing to dispel the glamour that always clings to this title. The gallery was wonderfully decorated, the ballroom decorations being the work of Afr Richar l AVallwork and Afr J. AA’ecks and those of the permanent gallery ot Mr and Afrs Cecil Kelly. The ballroom was canopied overhead with streamers of crimson and white; in the centre a life-size figure of '‘Carnival - ’ swung in a hoop hung with blac k eats and gay balloons. On each wall were big drawings representative of the three arts, painting, sculpture and architecture. AVillyams’s Jazz Band supplied the music, and the Prehistoric Alan jazzed gaily with an Early Victorian Lady, Charley Chaplin partnered a dainty Columbine, while an ominous Skeleton swung a frivolous young Folly. Supper was served in the “ Cafe de Troi .Arts,” arranged in Continental style under a striped awning massed along the front with palms and hung with Chinese lanterns. Overhead were two huge fancy umbrellas from which hung bunches of gay balloons.