FANCY DRESS PARTY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17178, 23 October 1923, Page 9

FANCY DRESS PARTY.

Dixieland presented a very gay and festive appearance last evening, when the art students of Christchurch gave a fancy dress party to their friends and fellow students. The secretary, Mrs R. M'Kenzie, with a willing band of helpers, spared no trouble to make the evening a success. The jazz room was decorated with baskets of red poppies and red and yellow lamp shades with long streamers of blue ribbons. The supper room and lounge were made very festive with huge baskets of paper poppies and large bowls of arum lilies. About forty couples danced to the music of Sutherland’s Jazz Band. Among those present were :—Mrs R. M’Kenzie (Butterfly), Mrs AY. Trethe-«fc-ey (Eastern Lady), Miss Theo Berwick (Eastern Lady), Mrs Beswick (Folly), Miss Audrey Oraeroft Wilson : (Folly), Mrs M’D. Vincent (Cairo), Miss Thornton (Queen Catherine), Miss Marjorie Wilson (Dutch Girl), Miss Wheaton (Dutch Girl), Miss Tylie (Jazz Folly), Miss M. White (Pierrette), Miss Barbara Olayden (Little Milliner), Mrs Scott Stevenson (Bacchante), Miss Ngaio Marsh (Poppy), Miss Brown (China Girl), Mrs Clark (Pierrette), Miss Lawrence (Gipsy), Miss Wollams (Russian Gentleman), Miss Anderson (Persian Lady). Miss Spencer Bower (Folly). Miss R. Adamson (Rosalind), Miss Campbell (Lady of 14th Century), Miss Peggy Poulton (Italian Lady), Miss Molly Black (Persian Lady), Mr Percy Crisp (Bluebeard), Air R. M’Kenzie (Spaniard), Ronald Randy (Chinaman), Norman Bachelor (Russian). Mr M’D. Vincent (Tut-ankh-amen), Mr ; and Mrs Kelly, Mr and Airs AVallwork. Mrs Minchin, Sir Charles Campbell, Hon Brinsley Plunket, Alessrs D. Gould, Scott Stevenson. Francis, Lough nan, L. Booth, R. Hall, Clark, Furness James.