The Rotary Club Banquet in Beirut

* Refined Lebanese circles are still talking, with much admiration, about the grand dinner banquet to which the Rotary Club in Beirut extended its invitations, on the occasion of the forty-seventh anniversary of its founding.

The party was under the patronage of His Excellency the President of the Republic; owing to a sudden indisposition, His Excellency Sami al-Solh, President of the Council of Ministers, deputized for him.

The terrace of the Saint-Georges Hotel was thronged with the guests, who numbered 350 ladies and gentlemen, and all eyes were drawn to the formal elegance that marked both the men and the women — so that it may fairly be said that this Rotary party was an elegant parade of the latest fashions and a shining proof of the generosity of the club's members and the breadth of their lavishness.

And the circles of dancers went on turning and turning, in an atmosphere of dignified gaiety, until the break of dawn.