The Carnival Ball
After the examination period lasting from January 24 to February 2 the next general object of undergraduate attention will be the Winter Carnival. The most showy part of the Carnival program, although not that part most universally looked forward to by the men who will have girls in town, will be the Carnival Ball.
A ball-room setting that will depict a typical southern plantation scene in the pre-Civil War period of 1850 will provide the principal motif for the 1929 Carnival Ball to be held on Friday evening, February 8. Such a background will make possible a wide range from which the dancers can choose their fancy costumes but it is hoped that dresses and suits characteristic of this period will be worn.
Upon entering the dance floor from the north end of the gym, the decorations will be so designed as to give one the impression of passing from the inside of an old southern mansion between colonial columns into a garden of the estate.
The Outing Club has secured Art Landry's 12 piece Victor Recording Orchestra of New York City. This famous group of musicians is now on its way North from an extensive Southern tour and is expected to furnish the best Carnival Ball music that has been rendered in the past few years.
The Carnival Ball Committee, which consists of K. E. Wilson '29, chairman, M. R. Goudey '29, B. B. Leavitt '29, D. A. MacCornack ' 29, R. I. Booth '30 and D. Hight '30, has already commenced the construction of the scenery details which will convert the examination hall into an aristocratic Southern plantation of the Virginia Piedmont region.
For the past two or three years the freshman class has each year considered holding a Carnival party of its own. Twice enough enthusiasm has been shown to make up a group sufficiently large to hold dances and once the plans have fallen through. This year the freshmen will hold their Carnival and their arrangements committee has planned two dances and a dinner limited to freshmen and their guests.
There seems to be no reason why the freshmen should not enter into the Carnival activities, although their exclusion from fraternities does not encourage it.
