DLA095-0127  Transcription

‘Hampstead Empire Ball’, Islington Daily Gazette, 23 April 1924

For the Empire Ball, to be held at the Hill, Hampstead, lent by Lord Leverhulme, in aid of the People’s League of Health, on Wednesday, April 30th, the following have promised to bring parties:—The Marchioness of Headfort, Viscount Leverhulme …

There will be a Pageant costume competition, in which famous characters in the history of the British Empire will be represented, as well as the ideas symbolic of the Empire ... The winner of the first prize will be painted by Philip de Laszlo, the famous artist.

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