CARNIVAL PRINCESS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 46, 26 February 1935, Page 2

CARNIVAL PRINCESS

ARRIVAL IN WANGANUI ATTRACT!VE COSTUMING Wi ..uganui was in f-estive mood last night lor the arrival of the Carnival Priueess and her attendants. Keen interest was shown by the public in the procession, for everyone wondered who had been chosen as ' * Prosperity Princess” for this year’s week of carnival. All eyes were watching a decorated vehicle adorned with a huge white swan. Throned in the centre was Miss Evelyn Wright, who made a charming picture in an ivory ninon frock embossed in gold and with a train. The neckline was heavily banded in diamante and she wore a diamante headless fashioned like a high Spanish comb. As the evening was chilly, she wore a short white fur coat, with high collar and held a diamante star. Her four attendants, Misses B. Fisher, M. McAddie, iv. Vodani and M. Edwards, were in frocks of white satin with trails of scarlet flowers arranged from each shoulder and falling at the back. Their diamante headdresses were in Grecian style and they wore white shoes and fur wraps. The sixteen fairies who were to have danced wore attractive frocks, eight being in pink with green garlands, and the other eight in green with pink garlands. Other fairies were in frocks in rainbow shades adorned with brilliants, headbands of brilliants and shoes to match. The large group of Ratana and Putiki Maoris, garbed in attractive native costumes, aroused much interest, as also did the choral tableaux entered by business firms. Those representing the City Council depicted summertime, with frocks of pastel shades and summer suits, the lorry being a bower of greenery. Britannia was the theme ches-en by the Wanganui Woollen Mills, the central figure representing the name part and the other occupants were dressed in white suits and peaked caps. Costumed as haymakers complete with smocks, 'kerchiefs, rakes and forks were those representing Woolworth’s, while J. R. McKenzie’s lorry showed a scene from “Old Virginia, with a coal-black mammy at the washtub surrounded by other “negroes’ correctly garbed. Owing to the inclement weather the 16 fairies, who had been trained by Miss Muriel Swann, did not appear, but requests have been made for them to be seen in future events during the Carnival period.