POPULAR DANCE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 492, 29 June 1932, Page 9

POPULAR DANCE.

St Margaret’s College Old Girls. EIGHT DEBUTANTES. One of the most popular dances of \ the year was held last night in the Winter Garden, when members of St i Margaret’s Old Girls’ Association and ! their friends gathered to spend a happy J evening dancing and exchanging remint iscences of school days. , The guests of honour were his Lord- > ship Bishop West-Watson and Mrs • West-Watson, who wore an attractive frock of black georgette inset with lace and a matchi-g coatee, and Mrs C. L. ‘ Young, head mistress of St Margaret’s ! and patroness of the association, her frock being of black chiffon velvet cut on long, slender lines, with a fichu of ivory crepe de chine bordered with Brussels lace. A large committee was responsible for the arrangements of the dance, the efforts to make the occasion even more popular than in previous years being crowned with success. The members were:—Mrs Guy Cotterill (president), who wore a marine blue lace frock and coatee and a white shoulder posy; Miss Mary Morten (vice-president), wearing deep wine satin romaine, the long bodice being vandyked to the long fully flared skirt; Miss Rose Reynolds (honorary secretary), in black georgette with bodice and butterfly cape of faconnc, black and gold tissue bridge coat; Miss Marjorie Best (honorary treasurer), in ruby chiffon velvet with cowl collar and shaped hip yoke, coatee to match trimmed with black fox fur; Mrs George Rich, cocoa brown floral chiffon patterned in green and apricot; Miss Kitty Dixon, turquoise ring velvet, with vandyked bands at the hip line and fully flared skirt; Miss Betty Thomas, marigold moire with long vandyked bodice and fully flared skirt, matching coatee fastened with brilliant I buckle; Miss Alma Chamberlain, deep rose georgette shading to blush pink, with a deep pink coatee; Miss Isobel Bates, ageratum blue taffetas appliqued with rose pink flowers and finished with two deep hip frills. The Debutantes. Eight debutantes stepped into adult society at the dance. They were:— Misses Lorna Best, Myrle Corrick, Phyllis R. M. Ford, Lorraine Dudley, Nancy Frater, Kathleen M’Namara, Bernice Smith and Aldwyth Jones. Upon arrival, they were presented with I posies to tone with their frocks by the president, Mrs Guy Cotterill, on behalf of the association. Later the debutantes were presented to his Lordship Bishop West-Watson and Mrs WestWatson, Mrs Cotterill making the introductions. Miss Best’s dainty frock was of white taffetas, lightly patterned in pink rosebuds and green leaves, a small bow being placed at the back on the waistline. Miss Corrick was in a graceful frock of deep cream satin romaine, the bodice being draped at the shoulders and caught at one side with brilliant buckles. Miss Ford wore a sweet frock of white taffetas lightly embroidered in tiny sprays and cut in Mid-Victorian style with off-the-shoulder decolletage, style with off-the-shoulder decolletage, sash tied in a large bow, and buttercup ruching trimming the hip line to hem. Miss Dudley's attractive frock cf deep cream satin had a cowl collar and small cape at the back of Brussels lace, and a narrow sash encircled the waist. Miss Frater wore a dainty frock of ivory lace mounted over georgette, the long fitting bodice having a cowl neckline and finished with a small bow at the back of geogette and lace. Miss M'Namara had chosen a simply cut frock of white crepe satin, the bodice forming a point on the skirt, which was trimmed with narrow bands of the reverse of the material in diagonal lines. Miss Smith wore an attractive frock of white satin romaine, the lines fitting the figure to the knees and then

flaring fully to the instep. The decolletage was cut to a deep V back and front. Miss Jones wore a pretty frock of ivory georgette, fitting to the knees and falling in flares to the toes. Three frills were placed on the hip line, leaving a plain panel at the back and front. Music was supplied by the BaileyMarston Orchestra. An interesting item was given by Mr Basil Robson, novelty dancer. The supper-tables were effectively decorated with blue and silver paper ribbons in the school colours, and quaint little blue pots of blue and silver leaves. The Guests. Those present included Mesdames A. D. Ford. Geoffrey Smith, J. R. C. Matthews (Sefton), A. D. Allan, Albert Smith, F. It. Dudley, W. E. Best, E. C. Frater and Clive Crowley, Misses Patricia Ronalds, Norah Hoare, Mavis Mulcock, Vera Papprill, Margaret Ormerod, Lorna Preston, C. D. Robinson, Ruth Main, Nola Midgley, Olive Langley, Betty and Molly Heasley, Mary Wilkins, Brenda Smith, Eileen Orchard, Eileen Tingey, Olive Spencer-Bower, Vivienne Eckford, Phyllis Cameron. Nell Wilkinson, Betty Simpson, Jean Lynch, Beatrice Telford, Pa t Simpson, Mary Rutherford, Joan Spence-Clark, Barbara Bloxant, Molly M'Kenzie, Alice Botherway, Esther Rose, Elsie Rutter, Ena Fleetwood, Joan Lisle, Noni Thompson, Vera Fox, Rayma Morgan, Vyvian Dawson, Isabel Pawson, Dorothy Judd, Joyce Burt, Mary Menzies, Monica and Molly Templeman, Kathleen White, Nancy Alloway, Nona Hampton. Hilda Penny, Grace Dysart, Joy Nicholls, Mary Stallard, Audrea Suckling, Marjory Tingey, Kathleen Macready, Joyce Shaw (Amberley), Ursula Evans, Marjory Owen, Pat White (Whiterock), Marjory White (Whiterock), Amy Dixon, Gwenhwyfer Wilkins, Daisy Armstrong, Natalie Danks, Gwen Skjellerup, Margaret. Lance, Agatha Upham, Kathleen Kay (Duvauchelle), Betty Nancarrow, Bertha Frizzell, Dorothy Stevens, Mary Pitts, Shirley James, Rona Woodward, Mollie Harnann, Nola Danks, Carol Eagers, Betty and Axleen Thompson, Shirley Wooller, Marjorie Sherris, Mavis Nixon, Barbara Buchanan, Jeanne Grant, Pauline Jefferies, Davina Bates, Joyce Collett, Alison Cooper, Dorothy Kernohan, Marjory Irwin, Alice Hewlett. Trixie and Doreen Bradley, Joy Woolf, Elaine Wickenden, Nessie Jones. Marguerite Baxter, Sylvia Smith, Joy Bridgewater, Doreen Byrne, Betty Deighton, Olive Round, Bettie Wilson, Edna Gill, Beth Green, Marjorie Milsom, Gwen Clarke, Nancy Green, Nancy Gardner, Betty Crawshaw, Barbara Salt, Noeline Craytliorne, Tui Pannell, Edith Smith, Florence Cannon, Olga Nelson, Mildred Garbutt, Elisabeth Tipping, Maisie Jameson, Patricia Cowper, Elsa Whitta, Rani Stewart, Gwen, Betty and Irene Barrow, Tui Thomas, Alison Goff, Madeline Pine, Als Jones, Rena Jaggar, Edna Firth, Dora Prudhoe, Mae Milliken, Mary Wacher, Vivienne Thomas, Lesley James, Ruth Taylor, Clare Woods, Merle Parry, Ruth Dudley and Winnie Mackay.