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Show THRONGS FROLIC AT PRESIDES GILL Spirit of Informality Pervades Per-vades Social Event at Bonneville Park. Hall Is Riot of Color; Every City Displays Its Club Emblems. I From the n-orr.en: when President John i Poo!e and other officers of the Interna- ! tional llotary club entered Bonneville pa- I vllian last nij;ht the scene wis inspiring. ; There va5 somelhir.g spontaneous, infor- I rp.al and joyous about the dance v.hich ; was whoiiy emblematic of the spirit of I Kotary. ; E ery city and district had gray colored t emblems of its own, and The women wore ; leis from Honolulu, poppies from CaM- forma. Indian feathers from Fort "Worth, 1 Texas, and ribbons from New Orleans. ' Hall a Riot of Color. i The hall was beautifully decorated in the i:ationai colors, -with a large illumi-L illumi-L nr.ted Kotary emblem at each end. The : bandstand had been erected in the center ! cf the hall. Iwi:minau-d signs indicated each dance. The i! w flittered like-fresh j ice from much pohhing. ! , Seven rows of chairs ran around the ' entire dance fo;ir. Bowls of punch were ; p!ae?d at intervals, and the refreshment j s'antis became increasingly popular as ( the dar.ee continued. A cool breeze poured - lr. occasionally from the southern win- I dows, making the dance doubly enioy-! enioy-! abie by its ccmiort. i Informality Prevails. Mr. Smith from A hi ska was introduced j to Miss Brown from the Hawaiian ; Islands, and Mr. J pr.es of Boston found I Miss White cf CjJ iiiVrnia. a charming ; dncing partner. The latest dar.ee music ; pro-, td as familiar to the Rotarians from ! V o r t o K ; co as to those from New York. ! The dance was scheduled to start at 9 o'clock, but it was exactly 9 '30 w hen ; the first inspiring strains of the entry march were sounded. Although the huge crowds seemed to fill the hall, the cancers canc-ers at no time found the dancing space j restricted. Adequate Transportation. Some of the flcor managers were rr.ar.i-; rr.ar.i-; festly nervous before the dance started, j and somewhat resembled stage managers cn the first night of th'e performance of a new show by an unknown author, but the crowd was so good r.atured and happy , that the f:o jr managers found their of-I of-I f ice a somewhat useless one, after all. 1 There was no difficulty in obtaining transportation for the Rotarians. Every ; automobile bound to and from the park took on Rotarians until it could carry no ' more. The street car service proved ex-1 ex-1 ceilent. Cleveland. New Orleans and Atlantic ! City continued their individual methods ! of propaganda even at the dance hail, t and no method of advertising their re-; re-; spective cities as favorable locations for the 1 fcO Rotary convention was overlooked. |