Ball and banquet decorations are usually planned in keeping with the nature of the function, and suggest by the symbols and emblems used the nature of the organization under whose auspices it is held. Figure [53] represents a large hall decorated for a yacht club ball. This hall is fortunate in possessing a stage and gallery, which facilitates its decorative arrangement. The stage is planned to represent the upper deck and pilot house of a large yacht, and is arranged for the use of the orchestra. Everything in the yacht’s furnishings is represented, and the effect is of a vessel moored bow on, at the end of the hall.
Flanking this, on each side, are miniature lighthouses, made of wood covered with cotton, and fitted in the upper chamber with electric lights. The roof of the hall is covered in the club colors of blue and white, so interwoven as to form four complete club burgees radiating from the centrepiece, which is a St. Andrew’s cross, made on a frame and drawn up into position.
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