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Show PROfW. IS SUCCESS I EWISPECT Brilliant Social Event Draws Hunclrcds to Hotel Utah Ball Room. GOV. SPRY LEADS MARCH Decorations Declared Finest Ever Arranged; Beautiful Booths for Refreshments. The Junior prom., which is the thief social ovcut of tho collosc year at th" University of Utah, was held last nlpbt at the Hotel l.'tah and was a pronounced success in evory respect. The affair was one svaiid display of porscou3 powns and puyety of color. At 0;3o o'clock sharp the grand march began. It was led by Governor and Mrs, William Spry, with president and Mrs. J. T. ICIiiRrhury following. Then came Colonel and Mrs- Irons, followed by Hamilton Ham-ilton flardnor, president of the class of IIMS. The Junior prom, oomniltiee, the Junior class and puests followed In the order n.iincd. At 10 o'clock the music for the first daife iKiRan and laneln? continued until J o'clock Ibis iiidrnin?. Classical waltzes and twnstepK were employed in the place of "iHRtlme" music, which is now so commou at dnnciinr partleji. No oou"i- had the Hotel l'lh been decided upon as the place for divine Hie prom, than the question arose as to the slxe of the hall, livperience had proved that the dance Hoor wns cnlirely too small to atcoinniodaie the crowds which In the pat had attended the annual party. Therefore U was lucumbent on the committee in charge to arranpo other interesting features. Accordingly, ever since the work begun, early in November, Novem-ber, Hie efforts of the class have been turned toward the side, issues of the party, and in every way they showed evidences of careful planning. Decorations Elaborate. The small room openinc off of t lie southeast corner of the dance floor was called the Junior room and was (be most beautiful room on the floor. Tho floor and couches were covered with hand-sonic hand-sonic fur rues and tho walbj were almost entirely covered with pennants representing repre-senting the different societies of tho school, while numerous small pennants bearing the numeral "IS" hung from tho mouldings. In the center of the room there was a. largo art lamp, which wan covered with violeta interlaced with sml-lax. sml-lax. lrrom the four corners of the room stringers of violets and smilax reached to tin- lamp in the center. Leaving the. junior room and entering the dance floor, tho only deconillons were at the ends of the ball. Tho orchestra stand was banked with palms and long-stemmed long-stemmed American Hcnuty roses, while Immediately over tho stand was hung the large block T". made, of red pnpor loses by tho members of the junior class. Hanging over the entrance to the banquet ban-quet room was a neat purple and white banner bearing the numorals "13." The 'Stairs leading up to the balcony were intertwined in-tertwined with smilax, while the balcony itself was decorated with white rose buds. In the banquet room there were twenty regularly arranged tables decorated with red and white carnations so as to carry out tlie colors of the university. A Maze of Booths. Leaving the banquet room and going onto the mezzanine Moor one came to the booths of the different societies of the school. The llrst booth was that of the Skull ami Uones society. Jt was decorated deco-rated with skulls and bones nnd black and white crepe. The second booth was occupied by the XI Kappa Phi -fraternity. The junior class used booth No. 3. The Musical society entertained In the next booth. American. Beauties and a lyro made of cut flowers comprised the decorations. deco-rations. The Delta. Epsllon sororltv served punch nnd nuts. The Alpha P"l fraternity occupied the next booth. A large bronze copy of the fraternity pin and red and blue ribbon formed the decorations. deco-rations. The Sigma Chi decorations consisted con-sisted of white roses and a cut flower copy of their pledge pin. The last booth was used by the Gamma Phi sorority. The feature of the decorations wns the artistic use of the flowers, American Beauties, smilax nnd violets predominated. predominat-ed. Tho flowers were fresh and large and were held in appropriate vases. It lias been the custom at the .college dances to begin tearing down decorations before the dance is over, but this dlf-tlcnlty dlf-tlcnlty was overcome la-st. nlclil with the assistance, of a few "plain clothes" men who- reminded those who attempted to tear down decorations that the- commit-' tee objected very strenuously to any such practice. |
