The R.S.L. Hall is always beautifully kept, and decorated as it was with flags and colored streamers, with little people flitting hither and thither, the scene was one of the prettiest imaginable. Hundreds of fantastic costumes were worn, each one vieing with the other for quaintness and beauty, and when, each little figure constitutes a picture in itself, it is very difficult to express a preference, as the judges, Mesdames Kerr, Humble, and Jeffrey
discovered, when endeavouring to allott the various beautiful prizes, for which the committee is indebted to Messrs. Carter and Co., the Economic Stores, Greater Bradshaws, Spicer and Detmolds, Union Stores, John Church, Galens, F. Farrelly, Lytton Studios, Aherns, Stevenson and Finch, Boans, Ltd., A. E. Pady, and Mesdames Lyons, Thompson and Pain.
The Grand March was led by Miss Mollie Stansfield who looked a most graceful child of Diana in her picturesque hunting costume, and after her wound a long line of lovely children, from tiny tots dressed in boy blue and nursing costumes, to sturdy cow-boys and beautiful dancing girls. One apparently battered and bandaged figure represented a “result of Football;” another was a walking alarm clock. Quite a number of sets were pre-
sent, some in old world crinoline costumes, others as spiders, marvellously fashioned, Hawaiian girls, brownies, an old gold paper set, and Apollo and the Muses. Ultimately the prizes were awarded as follows:
Best dressed couple “Rajah and Lady,” Arthur Slater and Gladys Brown;
Best dressed girl and boy: “Queen of the Ballet,” Rene Harper; Cowboy, Lionel Poole. Pester girl, “Sonora,” Olive Main; poster boy, “Sonora,” Alan Smith. Comic girl and boy, grandfather and grandmother, Dorothy Molyneaux and Agnes Jones.
In addition, special prizes were awarded to Marie Bitton who represented “An Old Woman who lived in a Shoe,” Loris Brennan as Keep off the Grass; Edna Hayes as Birthday Cake, Norma Horan as Indian Girl, Mollie Stansfield as a Huntress, Valda Hayes as the Man in the Moon, and Phillip Coombes as Big Ben.
The Elves and Gnomes set obtained first prize, members being Myrtle Doyle, Josephine Walsh, Beryl Charles, Mavis Cooper, Roy McCallum, Tom Doyle, Wally Kenny and Jack
Hawkins. May Wooley, Myrtle White, Dorothy Whyte, Kitty Lenke, Peggy Mclvor,
Audrey Craig, Olive Seubert and Rene Quelch danced in the spider set, which
obtained second prize. Master Thompson and Miss Parsons won the three step competition.
While the children were dancing a euchre tournament was conducted in the adjoining hall, and after a dainty supper was served to the young people, the R.S.L. orchestra continued to
supply its very fine music for the adults to dance. [1]
[1] The Advertiser (Fremantle) Friday 2 November 1923 page 2