Word: smilax
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...given by Mr. & Mrs. Henry Latham Doherty (utilities) of Manhattan* for Miss Helen Lee Eames Doherty, Mrs. Doherty's daughter by her first marriage. For the past few months they have stopped at the Mayflower Hotel, in the ballroom of which the debut was held. Decorations: plants, smilax, poinsettias. Along one side of the room stretched a double tier of boxes where sat Vice President Curtis and Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, Secretary of War & Mrs. Patrick Hurley, Papal Marquis George MacDonald. Also present: The Ministers of Switzerland...
Last week, Virginia, "the old dominion," contributed to the contemporary scene a revival from its best days, its long-ago, pre-war (Civil War) days. Virginia revived its oldtime Governor's Ball in the Grays' Armory at Richmond. Everything was done, including smilax, minuets and no admission for whippersnappers until after the grand march, to make the affair savor of a vanishing grand manner...
...Whittemore '29 during the supper intermission will feature this year's festivity. Programs for the event are already in the mail, and the decorating is well under way. The platform for the orchestra is being put up, and the walls are being decorated with Southern smilax. Bert Lowe's 20 piece orchestra will play ten card dances between the start of the dance at 10 o'clock and the supper interval at 12.30 o'clock, each dance consisting of a five-minute fixed dance and two encores, each of two minutes' duration, during which cutting-in will be permitted. After...
...final decoration of boxes is going forward today. Cedars will be placed before every box, and the walls are decorated with Southern smilax. Punch bowls are being placed at either end of the hall...
...crowded the floor of the Living Room of the Union last night and made it a spot of gaiety for the 12th annual Junior Dance. The decorations, though not elaborate, were artistic and unconventional, and made the Union appear at its best. White Colonial columns and lattices covered with smilax enclosed the boxes, and strings of rosebuds lit with tiny electric bulbs draped from the chandeliers. Baskets of lotus set on columns, marked the entrance to the Living Room. The orchestra was enclosed behind spreading fans of flowers. From the balcony hung the American flag, while at the other...