EFFECTIVE BALLETS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 233, 1 October 1931, Page 10

EFFECTIVE BALLETS.

Pupils have Annual Dance Recital. MISS MARGERY MYERS. Many charming costumes were worn by the pupils of Miss Margery Myers at the annual dance recital given in the Civic Theatre last evening. Noeline Clemens, a tiny tot, draped in a brown and white skin, with her wee pipes, made a delightful miniature Pan. A skirt of rainbow hue, with a blue spangled bodice, formed the pretty ballet frock of Esther Hollander in a Pas de Valse. As the dancer in “ A Vision of India,” Jessie Dickson was typically of the East in her flowing veilings of purple. Later, in a Dance, she donned male attire, with swallow-tails, top hat and cane complete. A tangerine satin costume with glistening spangles was worn by Kathleen Mathews in a clever acrobatic turn. Joan Meikle was sweetly dressed for her Pas Seul in a cherry red ballet costume, the fitting bodice and full tulle skirt being lightly touched with diamante. A dainty costume of delph blue and wide gossamer-lilce wings with silver tracings and motifs gave pretty effect, to the dance, “ Gossamer Wings,” by Ruth Hollander. Joan Hughes, for her Gavotte, wore a pretty Old English gown of cameo pink, with a Quaint pancake hat demurely tied with a wide pink ribbon bow. Gold and silver and a circlet of flowers combined to make the dainty ballet frock worn by Cecil Harris in an operatic solo. Leslie Ballin was attractively dressed for her Dance Piquant in an orange costume with a navy and white checked hat and orange gauntlets. For her dance, June Beadel wore an effective Chinese costume in deep blue and tangerine. Very striking was the effect of another duo by Kathleen Mathews and Jessie Dickson. The former wore a dainty primrose ballet frock with lacings on the corsage and narrow bands on the frilly skirt of black velvet. Her partner was dressed in a black satin coat with a primrose blouse. Betty Beadel and Marjorie Lindop wore Cossack costumes in a Russian duo. ” The Sailors’ Sweethearts ” was an amusiug number, consisting of two little middies (Billy and Bey Hughes) and four little girls in white and blue sailor costumes. Billy and Bey Hughes, in a Mickey Mouse duo, were well dressed for the part in the traditional Mickey costume. The ballets gave scope for some beautiful effects. In “ Silver Bubbles,’* the tiny tots, draped in azure blue and girdled with silver braid, tossed two large silver balloons in playful effect “ Anit.ra’s Dance ” was a striking ballet, the costumes being carried out in orange and emerald green. ” Butterflies,” executed by a chorus of tiny tots, was very dainty, their lemon “ bodies ” and “ feelers ” being set off by tangerine wings.