A Great War Charity Pageant : A the Victory Ball Rule Britannia !" sung by the 4000 guests to the music of the massed bands of guards : A typical group in the Albert Hall after the entrance of the procession The Victory Ball in aid of the Nation's Fund for Nurses. The principal event of the occasion was a procession , arranged by Mr Louis N Parker , consisting of characters in costume representing the Allies , or otherwise symbolic of the war . December 1918