The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-08
ALL SOC|E 7 !
At CLUB
BALL
An Evening of Dancing,
Music, Feasting
and JoIIity.

The beautifully decorated halls and
1anais of the University Club and the
annexed portions of the Hawaiian
Hotel were thronged last night by the
several Hundred guests of the club at
their third annual ball, the society
event in Hawaii looked forward to by
society throughout the Territory Last
nights affair in many respects sur
passed that of the season before, the
only drawback to the evening being
the rain which fell just as the MAORI
ty of the guests were assembling. This
was only temporary drawback, how
ever, forgotten as soon as the guests
were greeted by the members of the
Board of Governors and their wives,
the patronesses of the affair, and had
passed on under the gay lights and
brilliant decorations to the ballroom.
without was rain and chilliness; with
in were lights and music, hundreds of
handsomely gowned women and
throngs of distinguished men, bright
ness and laughter.
The guests were received in the club
lanai by the patronesses, Mrs. Frear,
Mrs. ]. r. Calf, Mrs. Ballou, Mrs. A
Gartley. Mrs. Clarence NJ, Cooke and
Mrs. w. H. Babbitt. {,
In every respect original, and car
ried out consistently throughout the
different rooms, lanais and halls, the
decorations Nere beyond question the
best yet seen at any similar affair in
Honolulu. The scheme was Japanese,
and worked out with as great atten-
tion TO details and artistic effect as
possible. The clubhouse itself had not
received as much attention as the
dancing hall and the lanais of the
hotel, but the combined effect of the
greens. flags and bunting and colored
lights was beautiful nevertheless.
In regard to the weather, a large
canvas canopy had been spread over
the driveway, and under this the
guests alighted from their carriages,
automobiles and hacks, passing
through the bowerlike lanai to the
reception rooms of the clubhouse,
where they were met by the recep- |
tion committee. Passing from the din
lng-Foom of the club, the guests
traversed the palm-lined bower con- !
Meeting the club with the hotel. Here
one of the prettiest bits of decora- |
tion had been carried out, Japanese
garden being planned beside the walk,
boulders beside a lotus pond, in which
posed two blue herons, the whole |
lighted up with Japanese lanterns and l
eliciting the warmest praise and many
expressions of admiration.
From the bower walk the guests
emerged on the Eva lanai of the
hotel. festooned with leis of MALE,
draped with bright flags and refulgent
with lights, but the crowning point in
the decorations was to be found in the
ballroom proper, although the whole
EVA wing of the hotel was given over
10 the dancers. In the ballroom a
bamboo arbor had been erected, from
which hung thousands of bright wis
aria. blossoms and scores of beautiful
anterns. Bamboo posts along the
walls supported the bamboo trellis-
work, while dainty young bamboo
branches were laced through and be-
ween the posts about the room.
the window at the mauka
nd of the ballroom could be caught
glimpse of a Shinto temple, with its
orii and shrine, while the smaller |
DOM on the makai end was given I
,ver to the musicians.
The Waikiki lanai was used as l
ounging room, being decorated with
arge Hawaiian and American ban
Iers signal flags, ferns and potted
,alms
Throughout, the decorations were
beverly planned and artistically car
led out. rejecting the greatest credit
n the members who conceived and
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