Over a thousand people danced in Regents Park Thursday night at the Ball in the Zoo. Hostesses had viewed the threatening skies earlier with some trepidation, but when they arrived they found that both the palm and flower decorated ballroom and the supper rooms were under cover.
Girls led baby bears, lions, chimpanzees and llamas among the dancers as they made a tour of inspection of ihe grounds, The ghost of the third Marquis €f Hertford thrilled those who watched him make his appearance by the flamingo pool in the ear hours of this morning.
Lady Howard de Walden had made up a large par Lady Gough, Lady Gloria Fisher, Lady Grenfell Lady Ratendone, Lady Glendyne, Lady Greville, Lady Plunket, Mrs. Dudley Ward, Sir Samuel Scott, the Hon.
James Smith and the Hon. Mrs. John att were among others who took on the dinner table and placed huge, informal groups in the ballroom and sitting-out rooms.
Coloured Tennis Shorts Black sun glasses with white rims, which made their frst appearance at Wimbledon this year, came into action again at Lady Crosfield's tennis party Royal guests, Princesses Helena Victoria and Marie Louise and Prince and Princess Arthur of Connaught, were sheltered from the glare by an awning under the cherry trees, and had a carpet spread on the grass to protect them from damp.
Coloured shorts dresses were to be seen among the amateur tennis players on the hard courts, while the Wimbledon stars maintained their rule of white.
Lady Catherine Ramsden's golden yellow shorts had two hip pockets at the back in masculine style. Lady Brougham's cream shorts had a dark blue strip down each side, and Mile. Paravicini had Coronation red socks, coat, hair-ribbon and belt, with a White shorts dress.
Lady Honor Vaughan, I noticed, was collecting autographs from the Wimbledon stars.
Princess Arthur of Connaught, paying a surprise visit to this party, had a long dusty pink woollen coat and a big brown hat, and carried a long sable fu The initial fashion craze, so far from subsiding, has revived, and in most fascinating form, Smart women are wearing an attractive novelty in the form of a small brooch with their own initials in a frame of real marquisette. The brooch is 1% wide, and may be worn on hat or cravat.
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