| Orchestra or Band | The Clabon-West Dance Orchestra |
| Set List | 22:00 Dancing,
22:45 Arrival of HM Queen and HRH The Prince of Wales,
23:00 Processions showing the Evolution of Fashion from 1810-1850:
1810 (Hon. Lady Lawson Johnstone)
1820 (Lady Terrington),
1830 (Lady Mond),
1838 (The Palmerstone Procession, Viscountess Hambleden, Dowager Countess of Airlie),
1842 (Lady Newnes),
1850 (Lady Amherst of Hackney, Lady Swaythling),
1870-1890 (Lady Yree, Lady Stuart of Wortley),
India (Lady Bomanji),
23:45 Dancing |
| Royal Presence | HRH Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles,
HM Queen Mary,
HRH The Prince of Wales,
HRH Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone,
HRH Princess Christian,
HRH Princess Helena Victoria,
HRH Princess Mary Louise,
HRH Princess Maud,
Lady Mary Cambridge |
| Performance Notes | The Clabon-West Dance Orchestra, under the direction of Mr P S Clabon-Glover. The evening featured fashion parades and pageants, with supper in the gallery. The Royal Albert Hall was decorated to suggest Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens.
"The scene at the Costume Ball organised by Princess Mary at the Albert Hall last week was a brilliant one - one of the most brilliant of post-war London. The huge hall was crowded with onlookers and dancers. The Queen and the Prince of Wales arrived during the course of the evening, and occupied the big royal box, from which they surveyed the glittering scene, the Prince, it was remarked, looked much better than when he arrived in London after his fatiguing tour of the East. Soon after the royal arrival the procession of characters in costume made its appearance; each participant advanced along the golden yellow floor and, coming up to the royal box, curtsied to the Queen and the Prince of Wales.
In the drawing above some of the members of Lady Newnes's 1842 group are seen in the centre of the floor. Although the procession was intended primarily as a review of a century of fashion, Lady Newnes's group wore replicas of the costumes worn by their forebears at the famous Queen Victoria Ball of 1842, so that the costumes of this group went back beyond the prescribed period. Lady Jean Douglas Hamilton is here making her curtsy, followed by Lord and Lady Falkland. Lord Falkland is wearing a copy of the dress worn b his ancestor at the Battle of Newbury in 1643, when he went out to do battle against the Cromwellians and gave up his life for his king.
Quite a noticeable feature of the ball was the number of titled chaperons who sat on chairs around the floor to watch the dancing, lending quite a pre-war atmosphere to the evening."
(The Sphere, 8 July 1922) |
| Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1922/34),
Handbill (RAHE/6/1922/21),
Illustration (The Sphere, 8 July 1921) (RAHE/9/1922/3) |