Flags and gay bunting helped in the riotous effect of decoration.

The black-faced orchestra held forth on a raised platform at the point where the hall looked two ways.

Recesses, alcoves and open doors to other rooms, which the young couples were piling over each other to reach, gave Lane some inkling of what Blair had hinted.
"Now we're out in the limelight," announced Blair, as he halted.
"Let's stand here and run the gauntlet until the next dance--then we can find seats." Almost at once a stream of gay couples enveloped them in passing.
Bright, flashing, vivid faces and bare shoulders, arms and breasts appeared above the short bodices of the girls.

Few of them were gowned in white.

The colors seemed too garish for anything but musical comedy.