WOMEN'S WORLD.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 218, 15 September 1925, Page 17

WOMEN'S WORLD.

SOCIAL JOTTINGS..

Their Excellencies Sir Charles and t Ar Feniusson, accompanied by Miss Helen Fergusson, are visiting Wangano q s ter Grander, has been in Auckland for a holiday, has returned to BO vjrand Miss Russell, Auckland, who have been paying an extended visit Xapier. are now in Wellington \lr= Guv King (Hmuera. \\aikato), • stavin**" with her mother, Mrs. G. Laurenson, Cashel Street West, ChristStephen Allan. of Morrinsville, is risitin*'' Auckland, and is the guest of her mother, Mrs. A. L. Foster, "Coolaneatta," -Remuera Road. Mr=. S. Thomas, of Auckland, is vjsitin<r Hamilton and i? the guest of her mother, Mrs. A. H. Tompkins, of Tuhitaramea. Captain P. X- Campbell, who last month was married in England to Miss Pemrie Lockhart, daughter of the late Colonel R. Elliott Loekhart, was aide-de-camp to Sir Lee Stack, and was with him in the car when the Egyptians assassinated him. the -STew Zealander himself being slightly wounded. It is Captain Campbell's intention, after having visited Xew Zealand with his bride,"to settle in the West of England. The nationality of the Xew Zealand and Australian women who married American sailors recently was discussed at a women's conference. It was stated that these women, on being married to Americans, lost their British nationality, and could not acquire American nationality until they were naturalised in the ordinary way. They really had no nationality. Such women could not obtain admission to America except as members of the usual immigration quotas. The matter was serious from the point of view of those women who would find difficulty in securing pass•ports. It is interesting to note that the famous Mr. Lytton Strachey is strongly sympathetic to women's movements, so much so that his play " The Son of Heaven," was twice performed at the Seala Theatre for the. benefit of the London Society of Women's Service.

The Auckland Society of Musicians held its annual bi-monthly meeting last Wednesday evening in the Lyceum Club' rooms. There was a large attendance of members and associates. The president, Mr. H. Barry Coney, was in the .chair. The guest of honour was Mr. Egerton Tidmarsh, the well-known pong English pianist, who is the examiner for the Associated Board of R.A.M. and E.CiM., London. Mt. Tidmarsh delighted the audience by contributing a short programme of pianoforte numbers. Among these were two Bach pieces, "Claire de Lune" (DebrussyJ, a study by Chopin, and two pieces By. Leo Livens, a modern English, composer. One of these pieces had been specially composed for the performer, Mr. Tidmarsh possesses a beautiful, sympathetic touch and a clear and brilliant technique.' An interesting musical programme was contributed by members. Mrs. Boult gave a short lecturette on Stravinsky's "Fire Bird," illustrated by gramophone records. A quartet party composed of Miss Margaret Stoddaft (leader), the Misses Walls, Stevenson and Lalla Hemus, gave a delightful performance of two string quartets, one by Hayden and the other by Edric Cundell, a modern English -composer. Miss Constance Howard sang sympathetically "LaTruite," by Schubert, and Miss Muriel Barr gave an enjoyable rendering of "Pale Moon," by Logan. At the conclusion of the programme supper was served in the tea room. Speaking of some of her impressions of university life at the Sorbonne, Paris, Miss North, at a meeting of the Federation of University Women, Wellington, emphasised the tremendous industry of French students. They began their studies at six in the morning, breakfasted upon a roll of bread (without butter) and coffee at eight; went on with their studies till twelve, when they had a good dejeuner. The rest of the afternoon was spent in more study, when they left oft for half, an hour before the evening meal (usually), after which they studied till | twelve or one in the morninsr. "Of course, it told upon their health!" said Miss North. Another thing that impressed ncr was their fearless wav of tackling anything that needed directness of thought. The French mind seemed to her more compact than the English mind, more tidy in its thinking, and in everything their' relentless logic pinned itself down to facts in their proper order. An interesting engagement, which has been announced at Home, is that of Professor John Maynard Keynes, the economist, and Lydia Lopokova, the Russian dancer. Professor Keynes, who was born in June, 1883, is one"of the great economic and financial authorities of our time, and it will be remembered that, after the Versailles Conference, he wrote a book called "The Economic Consequences ot Peace," which received an extraordinary amount of attention on the Continent and throughout America. While Professor Keynes is one of the famous scientists—so far as economics is a science—Lopokova has been described as an artist so supreme that in her dancing there is no form of human experience that does not suggest a form of immediate expression to her mind. If the old conventions of dancing do not fulfil her purpose, her own genius supplies her with new ones. She is a dainty, fair-haired woman—of such daintiness" that when she danced the "can-can"—that Parisian dance that scandalised our grandfathers --she made it seem a gem. She was previously married to Signor Kandolpho Hftrrochi, a ballet manager; but that marriage, made in America, was dissolved on the danceT's petition.

ENGAGEMENTS. The engagement is announced, in an exchange, of Agnes, only daughter of w. and Mrs. Westlake Piatt. Whaka«ne, to H. Douglas, eldest son of Mrs. f-aterson, Epsom, Auckland, and the -n, Geor S e Paterson. The engagement is announced in an 4 St ~ an S e of M 'ss Constance Mary MacArthur, elder daughter of Captain and Mrs. Mac Arthur, Forest Road, GeralQine and formerly of England, to Mr. -uichaei Studholme Barker, eldest son «Mr and Mrs _ j M Barke Waihi Woodbury. WEDDINGS. HT r ? e , marr - a S e took Place recently at fi °v of Miss Connie Miriama Stephens, well known in the Waitara aistnct, Taranaki, for her wort with Heath among the Maoris, and Mr. 4™ s B ailey, son of Mr. William bailey, of Waitara. Ihe marriage took place, on June 26, nf ■m.\ l . An<irew ' s Cathedral, Singapore, U* vi-, am Fis her. younger son of the we William Clarke, Braunton, Devon, grandson of the late J. Fisher, of «eswall, to Carrie Millicent, second daughter of the late W. J. Speight, of land PB ° m * Auckland - N ew Zea-