In Manitoba, in addition to purchasing entrance tickets, guests bid on silent auction prizes, participated in a 50-50 draw, and purchase liquor.

Homage Some 35,000 fans and guests bade an emotional farewell to the director Akira Kurosawa at a memorial service on Sunday at his studio in Yokohama, Japan.

Outside the pavilion the guests bade each other good night.

As the guests bade each other goodnight and departed to their own rooms or to other houses, Joshua, the Mute servant, led Steve upstairs to the large bedroom which had been set aside for his use.

At the sold out Kips Bay Cinema Centennial Ball at the University Club in March, guests bid on a jeweled Cartier watch, as well as a trip to London.

And ALICE G. NEWHOUSE, whose family owns the paper, was talking about a ballooning trip that she said she hoped the guests would bid on during an October benefit for Longue Vue House and Gardens, a historic Louisiana estate.

Clive Anderson and guests bid farewell to 2011 from the Radio Theatre, London.

On Thursday night, 200 guests at a party at the Yale Club will bid on chances to choose the common and scientific names for a butterfly, a beetle, a frog and a flower found in the Eastern Arc.

At a party and plant auction Saturday at 6:30 p.m., guests may bid on items like azaleas native to the Northeast, perennials for shady gardens and 100 daffodil bulbs, which will be planted for them.