MASQUERADE BALL IS GIVEN BY STUDENTS

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 185, 6 August 1931, Page 10

MASQUERADE BALL IS GIVEN BY STUDENTS

VARIETY OF COSTUMES AT THE WINTER GARDEN. A true carnival spirit held sway at the Winter Garden last night, when the students of the Canterbury College School of Art held their annual masquerade ball. The scene was a striking one as the floor filled with the hundreds of masked dancers in a bewildering variety of costume, beautiful and bizarre. Not only was the dressing notable for variety, but for fertility of imagination and a wealth of inventive genius which did infinite credit to the designers. It was a gay scene as the dancers whirled past—sheiks and sailors, tramps and troubadours, harlequins and houris, cardinals and costers, sundowners and senoritas, mandarins and midinettes—a colourful kaleidoscope. The hall was hung with poster cartoons of members of the staff and fel-low-artists and many amusing caricatures of notable pictures shown at the last exhibition of the Society of Arts. Great amusement was caused by several well-sustained comic characters and by a burlesque procession on wheels to the accompaniment of a lustily-sung chorus composed by the students. An exhibition dance was given by Miss Evelyn Edgar and Mr Wallace, and an eccentric dance by Mr Basil Robson. The Bailev-Marston Orchestra supplied the music.

The unqualified success of the ball was due in no small measure to the efforts of the following committee: — Mrs Alfred Cook, Misses Ermie Fitz Way, Kathleen Harley, Enga Washbourne, Kathleen White, Messrs John Oakley. Clifford O'Malley and Frederick Shewell.

The guests of honour were: Colonel the Hon G. J. Smith and Mrs Smith, and Mrs W. H. Clark.

The judges of the costumes were Colonel the Hon G. J. Smith and Mrs Smith, Mr Richard Wall work, director of the School of Art, and Mrs Wallwork, and Mrs W. H. Clark. A difficult task was presented in selecting the prize-winners, who were finally announced as follows: —Mr Southern and Miss Irene Harrison (Chinese Prince and Princess), Mr Leckie, Miss Phyllis Fitz Way and party (Misses Hope Parlane and Nettie Louden), Three Castles Court Group. A special prize was awarded to “The Scarecrow,” whose identity was not disclosed. Variety of Costumes.

Among the ladies in fancy costume were: Mesdames Richard Wallwork (period headpiece), G. D. Greenwood (Chinese Princess). Maxwell Ramsay (Caliph of Bagdad), Harold Beck (Persian Lady), Harley Slack (Carmen), Olliver Harley (Victorian Lady), W. J. Scott (Mephistopheles), Colin MacDonald (Persian Lady). R. W. Thorpe (Bathing Girl), Douglas Anderson (Powder and Patches), BeveridgDavis (Maid from Japan), Alan Joyce (Dutch Girl), A. J. Thompson (Spanish Dancer). J. Mercer (Gipsy), Phillip Wratt (Spanish Dancer), Charles J. Wilson (Gipsy), Lance Stevens (Spanish Lady), Arthur Stewart (Gipsy), H. Henderson (Revue), V. May (Rainbow), and K. S. Hodgson (Pyjama Kid), Misses Irene Harrison (Chinese Princess), Winifred Smith (Red and Black Pierrot), Eve Mercier (Apache), Doris Fleming (Hula Girl), Althea Slack (Egyptian Princess), Madge Mathews (Old English), Mira Larsen (Spanish Senorita), Grace Smith (Dutch Girl), Molly Davies (Robin Hood), Helen Bretherton (Folie). Mabel Miller (Spanish Dancer), Marie Mercer (Yellow' Bird Tobacco), Marjorie Carwell-Cooke (Maid Marion), Eunice Ilart (Russian), Kathleen Harley (Folly), Eileen Rose (Russian Peasant), Nancy Grant (Early Victorian), Maisie Jamieson (Beach Girl), Florence Macdonald (Dutch Girl), Kathleen Wallace (Carnival Harlequin), Ina de Malmanche (Egyptian Lady), Xessie Jones (Turkish Lady), Dulcie White (Gipsy), Doris Tucker (Hawaiian), Jean Eliott (One of the Princes in the Tower), Elvie King (Folly), Renee Connolly (Pierrette), Peggy Pearson (Old English Lavender), Jean Wilkins (Eastern Lady), Margaret Clark (Turkish Lady). Enga Washbourne (Early Victorian), Arulai Carr (Hindoo Woman), Cynthia Brightmore (Egyptian Harem Lady). Phyllis Abbott (Mexican Rose), Sally Willis (Eariy Victorian), Evelyn Sopp (Modern Hostess), Jean Hurd (Pierrette), Ermie Fitz Way (Sailor Boy), Muriel Swanston (Hula Girl), Julia Scarvill (Dancing Girl), Vera Hutchinson (Delphiniums), Phyllis Edw'ards (Queen of Clubs), Jean Sharpe (Queen of Diamonds), Marguerite Minson (Carmen), Margo Wallwork (Spanish Dancer), Lota Wishart (Frolic), Edith Wishart (Winter), Joan Mahar (Page). Isabel Svme (Coster Girl). Vyvian Dawson (Beach Girl), Mabel Bigg-Wither (Lido Ladv), Lorna Broadway (Creme de Menthe). Rhona Boswell (Gipsy), Joyce Shaw (Sidey’s Summertime), May Cracroft Wilson (Ballet Dancer), Agatha Upham (Swiss Peasant), Vera Papprill (Balloon Girl), Rita Clark (Lido Lady), Bertha Frizzell (Nigger), Ethel Mahar (Quaker), Patricia Ewing (Egvptian Lady), Lou Camm (Tunisian), Rhona Hoben (Modern Artist), Dorothy Camm (Harlequin), Mona Butler (Early Victorian), Jean M’Lean (Spanish Ladv), Esther Rose (Senorita), Thelma Haydon (Pirate). Irene Leggett (Players Please), Phyllis FitzWay (Three'Castles Quality Lady), Hope Parlane (Three Castles Quality Page), Nettie Louden (Three Castles Quality Page), Ethelwyne Bates (French Doll). Joyce Cooper (Georgian Lady), Zena Bates (Hiker), Kathleen Vincent (Midshipman), Mona Ril~v (Chinaman), Therza Stephenson (Riding), Peggy Hutchinson (Rainbow), Madge Ounsworth (Hawaiian). Muriel

Hartell (Hopes for the Future), Joan Skipage (Old English), Ngaire Shankland (Pierrette), Betty Hughes (Persian Lady), Betty Stock (Dolly Varden), Claire Webb (1890), Helen Hayes (Pierrette), Edith Bell (Tennis Girl). Marjorie Rasmusson (Peasant), Bessie Seymour (Russian), Mary Hole (Folly), Eileen Brice (Russian), Ethel Fanthorne (Marguerite), Roi de Pass (Green. Folly), Cathie Macdonald (Harlequin), Dorothy Pettey (Sailor Bay), Margaret MacGibl>on (Pierrot). Constance Andrews (Ragtimg), Dallis Wilkinson (Eastern Princess), Doris Dunnage (Russian). Molly Orr (Night), Jean Greaves (Artist), Miriam Cook (18th Century Lady). Pauline Kitto (French Artist), Joy Machin (Brighter Christchurch), Dorothy Dickinson (Harlequin Columbine), Shirley Wooler (Pirate). Marjorie Chambers (French Artist), Marion Miller (Oldfashioned Lady), Lois Denniff (Pertinette). Margaret Bell (Persian Lady), Chrystobel Bowen (1980 Smoking Suit), Shelagh Gumbleton (Crinoline), Doris Price (Persian Lady), Mena Prestige (Mephistopheles). Pat Campbell (Harlequin), Amy Dickson (Persian Lady), Gwen Scott-Baker (Victorian), Janet Dickson (Rumanian Peasant). Lilian Harper (Harlequin), Joy St John (Masquerade), Ivy Fife (Pirate). Molly Brewer (Russian Peasant). Kathleen Hitt (Dolly Varden), Elisabeth Tipping (Russian), Kathleen White (Chinese). Wilmot Macbeth (Beach Pyjamas). Edna Dunnage (Turkish Ladv). Slerle Miller (Carmen), Florence Akins (Hell’s Angels), Jessie Llovd (Hell’s Angels), Rita Cook (Hell’s Angels), Thelma Prestidge (Red Devil), M. Graves (Japanese), Jessie Dickson (Gipsy). Ladies in evening dress included: Mesdames Cecil Kelly. J. C. Mercer. A. A. Bender. Edwin Mills. R. A. Mercer, L. B. Casbolt. H. Wooff and If. C. Manseld, Misses Joan Seabrook. Mary Chaney, Gertrude Oarage, Jean Lynch. Rhona Weavers, Peggy Anderson. Edna Gee, Doreen Athfield, Margaret Christian. Ena Harris, Hazel Hamilton, Gladys Mowbray. Margery Oilier, Joyce Hood, Rona Smith. Beryl White, Alma Marchant. Olive Booth, Millie Lomax, Esther Lomax. Yvonne Parry, Mae Freeman. Iris Donovan. Mary Scarvill, Susette Prichett, Joan Taylor, Rewa Campbell, Naare Hooper, Noreen Craddock. Freda Tapper. E. James (Auckland). Marjorie O’Malley.