Eightsome Reels at the Astor The social activities of the Shanghai-Scottish Company, 8. V. C., have been extended this season, and besides the annual dinner a ball has been included in the programme. This, the first ever given by the company, took place at the Astor House last Friday, and was.
pronounced success.
A very great tendency is ap) ent these days for such festivity to be conducted in the most inform: al manner possible, and this principle was followed out on this occasion. The rank and file of the company were present in mufti, but a number of the descendants of the clans in kilt and sporran gave the necessary picturesque touch to the proceedings. Further, the perfervidum ingenium Scotorum found expression in a couple of eightsome reels and a lilt or two on the bagpipes (for even writers in our correspondence columns were unable to make the Scotsmen forgo their wonted joys.) No matter though other musical instruments possess greater range, the pipes will always have a leading place with all music lovers, and accordingly a feature of the evening was their presence. So were the eightsome reels—measures which can woo the foxtrotters and jazzists from their favourite pastimes.
The guests numbered 300, and the Scottish Ca. was present at practically full strength under its officers Captain Gavin Campbell, Lieut. W. A. Turnbull and 2nd Lieut. A.M. Wilkie. Among those present were Col. Marr Johnson, C.M.G., D.s.0., and Mr. John Prentice, ¢.9.M.s. David White was the organizer of the function, and to him much of its success was due. The bagpipe music was supplied by Pipe-Sgt. Webber and Piper Mac-Lennan.
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