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Girl Croons To King's Guests
A CROONER sang in Bucking- ham Palace one night last month. Platinum blonde Evelyn Dall, the girl who intends to retire when she is twenty-five.
Occasion was their Derby ball.
Majesties'
Their thousand, guests heard his tory made in the great white and gold ballroom when Ambrose's dance band played foxtrots and modern waltzes, while their sex-appeal sin- ger gave “boop-a döop” réfrains.· ·
Time had again marched on for Britain's Court.
This was the first entertainment of its kind given at the Palace on Derby Night,
Up, to this year it has been the custom for the Sovereign to be with fellow members of the Jockey Club; at an all-men dinner.
But 1938 found the King and the men guests in evening clothes with knee breeches, surrounded by women in gorgeous gowns.
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Dancing began soon after ten o'clock. The King and Queen early joined in.
But the most thrilled person in. the Palace, was Evelyn Dall, She was also very nerous before. her first song.
Beautifully gowned in ice-blue satin, she stood in front of the band, The microphone brought back confidence.
-Most dignified among them was the Queen a lovely figure in a crino “I was as busy as a bee the whole, line of white Duchesse satin, pan-evening looking at all the famous niered with draperies and flounced faces, and, oh, was, I enchanted by with silver lace.. She wore the Or- the beauty of the scene? I guess I der of the Garter, and her tiara and am the luckiest little American girl
dia-in London just now.. necklace were of rubies and monds, with bracelets to match.
"It's an evening I shall remember all my life."
Queen Mary drove over from Marlborough House.. Present, too, So at twenty she has reached the were the Royal Dukes and Duchesses top of her professional tree a royal of Gloucester and Kent, and Prin-performance.
THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 9, 1988..
Miss Evelyn Dall
photograph in the gown she wore when
she went to Buckingham Palace,
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