CABARET COMIQUE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 193, 15 August 1931, Page 22

CABARET COMIQUE.

Funds of Plunket Society Aided. SPIRIT OF CARNIVAL. It was a gay corner of Paris that found its way into the Winter Garden last night, when the Cabaret Comique arranged in aid of the funds of the Plunket Society drew a large snd hilarious crowd. The committee’s intimation, “ any costume but evening dress,” was interpreted liberally and literally, and it is hard to imagine a more cosmopolitan crowd than that which thronged the cafes last night. Trim midinettes and students in sash and blouse wonderfully bearded and moustached were there in dozens. Flocks of girls in many variations of trousered costumes of every hue ‘nixed in a whirling throng of dancers, representative of all the nations of the earth. The comedy spirit of the evening was well reflected in the choice of eccentric and ludicrous garb in which people had chosen to array themselves and still more in the gay abandon which nothing but fancy dress can produce. The fun was fast and furious from the first rollicking chorus as a band of clowns circled the hall, until the small hours of the morning, when the last lights in the cafes and Theaue Bebe flickered out. A Parisian note was introduced in several cafes arranged in different parts of the hall, where dancers could obtain all sorts of refreshments, and in the miniature theatre where the cabaret items were staged. A Notable Record. With a notable record of previous successful Plunket entertainments during National Week, this year’s committee had a standard of excellence to maintain and it must be said that the Cabaret Comique proved a most conspicuous success. The members of the committee who carried out the arduous work of organisation, so well were' Mesdames Frank Graham, J. G. Collins. Misses Margaret Anderson and Mildred Cook, Messrs Frank Graham, Heathcote Helmore, Ross Lascelles, R. H Livingstone, F. G. Bristed, J. G. D Ward and F. Nicholls. During the evening cabaret items were given from the Theatre Bebe by Basil Robson, Miss Iris Edmonds and Desmond Day, Lawrence and Moran and “ Le Gai Titchener.” The members of the Bailey-Marston Orchestra, who were in carnival garb, were grouped in an attractively arranged stage setting designed bv Mr Paul Pascoe. Many Visitors Attend. Those present included:—Ladv Ward Mesdames Frank Graham. Ross Lascel es, Pat Ward, W. H. Clark, L. G Collins, J. K. Bristed, C. Taylor, W. Williamson, R. H. Livingstone, Sinclair Murchison, L. M. Wilson, W. H. Clark o' 2?' Macfarlane, F. Cracroft-Wilson.’ S N. Perry, Richards, J. G. L. Vernon, H. East, W. J. LeCren, Hallowes Wood. Fitzgerald, E. J. LeCren (Timaru), J Reid (Culverden), H. T. Beck, II St A Murray, Peter Hall, 6. Frankel. Philip Hollander, Guy Cotterill, Kenneth Robinson, A. A. M’Master, Milner Harris, Bernard Murray, Neil Rattray (Waimate), Rossmore Cracroft-Wilson. E. J. Cordner, Ivan Wood, Geoffrev Hamilton, Gordon Coull, R. H. j. Camm, Shirley Wright, S. P. Godfrey Robinson Hall, H. M. Godby. Alan Matson, Jack Matson, Guy Nicoll, Arthur Thomson, Victor Mulligan R J. Mulligan, H. Reese, R. W. Morrow, Gent van Asch, J. S. Guthrie, H. H Wauchop, Eric Diehl, W. H. Cowper, George Aitken, Keppel Archer, Keith Ower, G. D. Greenwood, Norman Tingey* Jack Redpath, Dorothy Skinner, h J. Savill, Douglas Anderson, V. May, Maxwell Ramsay, Colin Macdonald, D. E Bremner, F. W. Freeman, Godfrey Rutherford, L. M. King (Rangiora) E B. Davison, J. M’Quilkin (Eiffelton), Maurice Louisson, M’Keenan (Kaikoura), Lyn Lawrence, Gordon Rich Arthur Nicoll, Cecil Quane, A. M'Queen Misses Mildred Cook, Mabel Bigg,Wither, Dorothy Raymond, Eileen lingey, Phoebe Martin (Marlborough), Shelia Atkinson (Hanmer Springs', Margaret Clark, Dorothy Walton (Timaru), Lenore Minson, Rosa Tripp (Timaru), Marjorie Frostick, Betty Beadel, Peggy Norton, Joy Rawnsley, Margaret Ogilvie, Wilmot Macbeth, Ethel LeCren, Joy Machin, Betty Macdonald, Alice Hewlett, Barbara Bloxham, Magdeline Hall, Gendie Maling, Katherine Westenra, Gladys ActonArams, Mary Nutting, Cushla Mitchell, Dorothy Robinson, Dorothy Poison (Stratford), Millencent Grose (Wellington), Diana Orbell, Sally Newton, Elena Helmore (Timaru), Jean Newton, Joyce Macgibbon, Christobel Bowen, Ella Macgibbon, Ruth Taylor. Shona DampierCrossley, Elisabeth Morris, Peggy Orbell (Waikouaiti), Cara and Nona Pinckney (Southland). Agatha Upham, Egidia Menzies, Linda Taylor, Yvonne Baxter, Sybil Rutherford (Hawarden), Betty Rutherford, Mary Alexander. Norah Newton, Betty Kiver, Patricia Powrie, Madge Morland, Marjorie Mil som, Gretchen Sargent, Barbara Bayley. Dawn East, Marguerite Minson, Noreen Craddock, Dora Warren, Gwen Baxter, Dulcie Fleetwood, Betty Holmes, Margaret Anderson, Cynthia Wilson (Bulls), Diana Allen, Julie Snow, Vida Manning, Joan Simpson, Lou Camm, Margaret Tulbot, Billie Allen, Kura Smith, Julia Scarvell, Betty Cotterill, Ruth Wynn-Williams, Noleen Sey, Lesley Payton, Margaret Livingston (Dunedin), Denderah Rhodes, Quita Cordner, Janice Overton, Nancy LeCren. Jean Mitchell, Dorothy Camm, Lorna Rushbrook (Wellington), Marua Seabrook, Lois Ollivier, Nancy Harper, Norah Ilaggitt, Phyllis Acton-Adams, Adine Acton-Adams (Dunedin), Mildred Hiatt, Elisabeth Tipping, Norah Hoare, Margaret Stevenson, Dorothy Wauchop, Molly Evans, Rhona Hoben. Peggy Lake, Nancy Williams (Masterton), May Thacker, Hazel Evans, Claire Perry, Joan Gard’ner, Melva Watson, Mary Scarvelle, Barbara Rutherford, Kathleen Hoare, Doris Price, Cynthia Wood, Muriel Swanston, Betty Harper, Rae Wauchop, Joyce Blunden, Betty Evans, Hilda Lewis, Monica Templeman, Harris, Edith and Betty Wishart, Betty Kimbell (Lower Ilutt), Alison Huie, Ailsa Nelson, Peggy Wi! liams, Meta Nixon, Margaret Lance, Molly M’Gregor (Southland), Marjorie Gambier (Auckland). Mary Weld (Marlborough), Rana Redpath, Dorothy Mayo, Kathleen M’Quilkin, Molly Pears, Meudaill Smith.