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MRS. GLIDDON'S 'DANCE.
On Wednesday night at their home,
Avenue Street, Alillsivcod, Mr. and Mrs.
G. R. GJiddon gave one of the jolliest
dances of the season, and entertained with
lavish hospitality some 60 or more of their
friends. Everybody appreciates the privi
lege of attending a dance at a private {
house, and when all the cuests one i
wishes to ask cannot be accommodated
for dancing and Kipper in the iiouse
itself the excellent dance floors and
marquees provided by Flavel & Co. make
ideal rooms.
Two big marquees were erected on the
Jawns, the dancing one being decked with
big bron'n hanging baskets of carnations
and- sweet peas, ??vnile red, blue, and green
balloons hung round the sides and myriads
of rainbow streamers These have be
come most popular adjuncts to a dance,
and the guests just iove to whirl round
in ligh :-nearted fashion, entangled in
miles of ribbon, with balloons floating
gaily in the air. Mis3 Dorothy Daley's
Jazz Band played excellent music, the
addition of a xylophone making things
even more hilarious.
In this marquee ilr. and Mrs. Giiddon
received their guests, being assisted by
Misses Clara and Irene Giiddon and Mr.
Laurie Giiddon. Mrs. Gliddon's hand
some/frock is sketched elsewhere in this
issue. Miss Clara Gliddou wore a smart
confection of black silk net on a founda
tion of black silk with touches of gold,
and a beautiful necklace of jet. Her
evening scarf %as of black woven siik
lined with, mole floral ninon. Miss Irene
Giiddon's frock was of palest pink satin
iwith an overdress of pink tulle, made in
bouffant style and edzed with pale blue
satin. . *
In almost every room in the house was
a cossy fire and bowls of exquisite violets,
roses, and carnations, and in the dining
room hock and claret cup and light re^
freshments were available all the evening.
At 11 orclock everybody trooped into
the second marquee and sat down to a
deleetabie champagne supper. Here the
colour scheme was in varying shades of
yellow. Wonderful baskets of daffodils
and fern hung from the centre, and on
the tables were vases of Iceland poppies.
More balloons — gresn and yellow— -hung
all round the 'wa-ils, and a. particularly
festive kalf-hour was spent. A whisper
went round that it was the eve of Mr.
Laurie Giiddon's birthday, and we ali
toasted him in champagne and sang 'For
He's a Jolly Good Fellow'-^and so he is!
He made an apt speech in reply, and was
greeted with loud applause.
I don't know when the party was over,
for I left reluctantly at 1 a.m., and there
were stiU about naif a dozen more dances
on the programme. 'Mr. and Mrs. Giid
don certainly gave their guests a beautiful
time, and we shall long remember it.
Among those present were Dr. and Mrs. John
Corbin, Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Shorney, Dr. and
Mrs. Darcr Cowan, Mr. and Mrs. Gill Williams,
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Corbin, Mr. «nd Mrs. Iieelie
Bickford, Mr. nd Mrs. Jack Morish, Mr. and
Mrs. A.- GrenfeJI Price. Miss Inly Melrose. Miss
Thelnu Glover, Hiss Phyllis Bitson, Miss Phyllis
Bray, Miss Mollie Inrin, Miss Katrine Creswell,
Miss Eileen Toiler, Miss Nancy Murray, Miss
Patricia Bowman, Miss Eosa Beld, Miss Poppie
Toller, Miss Enid Evan, Miss Marie* Henderson,
MisEes Patty and Irene Willcor, Miss Olive
Hiles, Miss Kathleen Armstrong.
Mr. John Creswell, Mr. H. S. Cowan, Mr. Eric
Tollej-, Mr. Jack Tolley, Mr., Bill Murray, Mjr.
Lance Lewis, Capt. Gaynor Owen &nyth, Mr.
Jack Evans, Mr. Douglas Eeid, Mr. Clifford Eeid,
Mr. Percy Willcox, Mr. Charlie 'Willcox, Dr.
H. J. Penny, Mr. Claude Fisher, Mr. Haddoa
Bowea, Mr. Ernest Jolly, Mr. Albert Eankine,
Lient. Hartley Heyward, Mr. Baxter Cos, Mr.
Keith Catchlore, and Mr. Tom Morris.
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