FANCY DRESS BALL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 247, 19 October 1936, Page 3

FANCY DRESS BALL

CHILDREN’S FUNCTION ARAMOHO SCHOOL SUCCESS. (Contributed). Successful from every point of view was the children’s fancy dress ball held in the A.B.C. Shed last Thursday night in aid of the Aramoho School funds. The hall was filled to capacity and in spite of the limited floor space, some of which was required to accommodate the large number of spectators, the various folk dances evoked rounds of applause. The grace and precision with which the movements were performed merited well-earned appreciation. The judges, Mesdames W. J. Stone and F. C. Atkinson, awarded the following prizes:— Best dressed boy: W. Davidson (Scotsman), C. Roy (Chinaman); best dressed girl: R. Edwards (Victorian Posy), E. Stevenson (Old English); most original boy’s costume: D. Paterson (elephant), R. Hume (coster); most original girl’s costume: J. Humphrey (music goes round and round), T. Slight (keep off the grass); most comical boy: A. Cawley (Pop-eye); most comical girl: A. Boyland (Queen Elizabeth); most economical dress (boy), O. Tee (Guy Fawkes); most economical dress (girl): A. Mcßeth (onions). Tiny Tots: B. Randal (water lily), S. Williams (penguin), J. and T. Healey (Bags Brothers), E. Cables (bride), J. Soper (bridegroom). Others in fancy dress were as follows : Standards 6 and 5 (boys).—C. Roy (Chinaman). J. McFarlane (Cant. Blood), B. Hallam (sailor), L. Paterson (Dutch boy). D. Benbrook (serenader), B. Coughlin (Charlie Chanlin), D. Cathro (tennis player). A. McLean (drummer), I. Simmonds (Rajah), A. Simpson (Jan). Standards 6 and 5 (girls).—G. Greig (Irish colleen), A. Jones( sailor girl), C. McNicol (belle of ball), H. Nelson (ginsy), I. Roy (Spanish lady). Standard 4 (boys).—Eric Menzies (make ’em grow), Peter Bagley (clown), William Davidson (Scotchman), Kenneth Hawkins (on the Friendly Road), James Nelson (advertisement), Maurice Sturzaker (bandsman), John Bish (Chinaman), Donald Greig (swagger). Standard 4 (girls).—Lorraine Cables (saucy but quite 0.k.), Marjory Duke (Queen Anne chocolates), Doris O’Brien (’Xmas tree girl), Beth Addenbrook (Early Victorian Lady). Daphne Benbrook (spring), Phyllis Smith-Pilling (powder puff), Joan Parnell (Greecian maid), Mabel Williams (traffic control), Christine Hughes (old-fashioned lady), Merle Gedye (black mammy), Lindsay Breton (fairy), Peggy Butler (English lady), Valda York (dancing girl), Dulcie Menzies (golden butterfly), Iris Tasker (daisy), Jean Tasker (Mexican girl), Mavis O’Brien (hearts). Standards 3 and 2—lrene Robson (knitting bag), Fay (a lampshade), Shirley Handy (Grace Darling), Pattie Cornick (Miss New Zealland), Lois McChesney (French peasant), Shirley Wilson (Cinderella), ijuan McLean (Dutch girl), Audrey 'Mcßeth (dancing with tears), Betty iWilliams (ludo), Thea Slight (Dutch girl), Ngaire Gosling (a young prin-

I cess), Gertrude Fisk (summer), Elva Stephenson (Old English Gentleman), Margaret Wood (a Gipsy girl), Mabel • Kearns (powder puff), Valerie Robb (Karatane nurse), Nancy Hope (Dutch girl), Maureen Tee (Indian rance), Merle Cleveland (Gipsy), Joan Bowman (Red Cross nurse), Nola Slight (rainbow), Tom Mortensen (swagger), Alan Cables (good night), Frank Gilroy (school boy), Ernest Randal (a tramp), Tommy Little (Weldon's patterns), John Greig (schoolboy), Keith Cathro (cricketer), George Nelson (Russian officer), Des'mond Simonson (schoolboy), Ken. Smith-Pilling (Dutch boy), Lindsay Davidson (schoolboy), Jack McChesney (Robin Hood), Dan Brandon (schoolboy), Douglas Greenless (schoolboy), Peter Horsley (Russian Hussar), Jack Healey (a bear), Francis Davison (sandwichman), Peter Petersen (home gardener). Standard 1 (boys).—Trevor Cartwright (a clown), Alec. Cawley (Popeye the Sailor Man), Milton Cornick (a bell boy), James Davidson (patches), Donald Hughes (a rabbit), Robin Hume (a coster), George Kerwin (Dutch boy), Andrew Little (a pair if scissors), Ronald Nelson (Dutch boy), Donald Paterson (an elephant), Colin Simonson (a dormouse). Standard 1 (girls).—Rita Bryson (blue frock), Leonie Ernst (Russian ballet girl), Velebeth Fisk (spring), Margaret Gilroy (night), Alison Good (two little girls in blue), Betty Greig (C.W.S. products), Valarie Jackson (pink frock), Frances Jeffrey (a call boy), Shirley Gullery (a Rajah), Myrtle Kuzman (a beautiful lady in blue), Mollie McAllister (carnival), Noeline McDonald (a Rajah), Jean Price (a brown elf), Authy Slight (a Russian), Jean Sharrock (a fairy), Betty Tasker (girl in blue), Joyce West (a pierrette), Thelma Williams (danger signals). Primers 3 and 4 (girls).—June Forward (ballet girl), Marie Fromont (Red Ridinghood), Joyce Johnston (lady in red), Violet Benseman (olni fashioned lady), (Vel.) Mary ProudIfoot (Dutch girl), Gwen Hildrect j (fairy), Verona Edwards (Victorian | posy), Aileen Jackson (Shirley Temiple), Joan Storey (eat more fruit), ! Rossy Berry (Gipsy). Lynda and Ali(son Good (two little girls in blue), jVirginia Bell (Little Miss Muffet), jßoys: Alan Johnston (Scotchie). Ron- | nie Robson (Wee Willie Winkie), I Walter Benseman (old man). Rex. I Healey (bear), Douglas Holmes | (Prince Charming), Wallace Harris (Mickey Mouse), Stanley Williams (penguin), Ron. Wood (little carpeniter), Alan Angus (scarecrow). Primers 1 and 2.—Allan Cartwright ' (Baker), Cedric Downs, Kenneth Me- ! Naught (monkey), Owen Tee (scarejcrow), Gordon Cathro (pierrot). Ron. Dempster (dog), Len Firmin (Mickey Mouse), Alan Tasker (Mickey Mouse), I Teddy Wenham (golliwog), Billy i Hatcher (Maori), Johnny Hekenui ' (morepork), Noelene Gullery (ranee), | Lilian Morris (Little Red Ridinghood), (Beatrice Randal (water lily), Janet Robertson (night), Sally Todman | (pig), June Wenham (Alice Blue I Gown), Carol Wilson (fairy), Maureen (Angus (car), Beryl Forward (buttercup), Peggy Greig (fairy), Shirley Healey (fairy), Natalie Jackson (rainbow fairy), Jean Kirk (all woollen), Pat Mulcahy (ready for bed), Jean Pendreigh (fairy), Noeline Joll (bedtime), Beryl Harris (Minnie Mouse), Lois Puklowski (Christmas tree), Anne Boyland (Queen Elizabth), Doris Hoskyn (sunflower), Shirley Lawlesi (fairy).