THE SOCIAL ROUND

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 246, 18 October 1927, Page 11

THE SOCIAL ROUND

PERSONAL ITEMS.

I Miss Nance Macklow is paying a visit to Rotorua. * • * • Miss Frater has taken up residence at "Glenalvon." » • • • Mrs. Chisholm and Miss Chisholm are visiting Lyttelton. • •■ • • Dr. Margaret P. Wilson, of Wellington,' is at present visiting Auckland.

Miss Freda Rathbone, Remuera, is a visitor to Wellington. * * * *

Mrs. Hale, of Rotorua, arrived yesterday on a visit to Auckland.

Colonel and Mrs. R. Allen left for Morrinsville by last evening's express.

Miss Adams, who has been holidaying in Rotorua, has returned to Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. H. Townsend, of Wellington, are staying at the Star Hotel.

Miss Jean Stoupe, of Onehunga, has left on a holiday to Te Aroha and Thames.

Mrs. F. Grove, of Wellington, arrived by the express, and is staying at Royal Court.

Mr. and Mrs. Peters, of Sydney, are visitors to the Dominion, and are guests at "Glenalvon."

Miss Una Buddie returned to Auckland this morning after a short trip to Morrinsville. * * * •

Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Fookes, of Wellington, arrived by express, and are staying at Royal Court.

Mrs. Edger, "The Lindens," Curran Street, is the guest of Mrs. Collins, New Plymouth. * * * *

Mr. and Mrs. George Nathan,, of Wellington, leave by to-night's express, after holidaying in Auckland.

Mrs. M. Casely, of U.S.A., left for Rotorua this morning after an enjoyable holiday at the- Grand.

Miss Tolhurst (Sydney) is a visitor to Auckland, and intends leaving by Wednesday's express for Wellington and the South Island.

Miss Hadfield, who has been attending the Victoria League Conference in New Plymouth, has returned to Auckland.

Miss Muriel Pay ton, Rotorua, and Miss Olive Kay, St. Clair, will be among the competitors at the golf tournament at Heretaunga next week.

Mrs. M. Cubbin, of Scotland. is visiting New Zealand, and intends touring the North and South Island. Her address is "Glenalvon."

Miss Whitelaw, who has been staying at Paraparaumu, Wellington, with Mrs. Hadfield, spent the week-end with Mrs. D. C. Peacock, and has now returned to Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. Preston Chambers, who have been on a motor trip to Dunedin, in splendid weather, returned to Auckland on Sunday. Mr. Aubrey and Melby Preston Chambers, accompanied Their parents.

Mrs. Buckleton, of Wellington, motored through to Te Kuiti and then to Te Awamutu, after the Victoria League Conference in New Plymouth, and expects later to come on to Auckland.

Mrs. Colin Duncan is visiting Sydney with her husband, who is attached to the Embassy in Rome. Mrs. Duncan, who attends court during the season at the Quirinal, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Catteral, of Wolseley Road, Point Piper, Sydney.

Mrs. A. Samuels, Mrs. H. J. Levy and Mrs. M. Cooper, of Eastbourne, Wellington, are now in Auckland to attend the marriage of Miss L. Schneideman to Mr. F. E. Levy, which takes place on [Thursday evening.

Miss Ince, the hon. wardrobe mistress of tho Amateur Opera Company, Auckland, leaves by Wednesday's express to prepare for the "La Mascotte" season in Whangarei, which opens on Thursday evening for a three nights season.

Miss Mowbray, who has been attending the Victoria League Conference at New Plymouth, is now the guest of Mrs. A. V. Macdonald, formerly of Auckland, now of Hawera. Afterwards she will go to Wanganui as the guest of Mrs. Mason, and then proceed to Hunterville to stay with Mr. and Mrs. T. Hope Mowbray.

"You wouldn't think I was 50," said Madame Alwyn at her lecture in the Unity Hall last night, as she performed feats of balance and poise. The lecture was on psycho-physical culture and inspiring enough to renew the enthusiasm for the daily dozen, turning them from duty into delight. Madame Alwyn emphasized the necessity for light clothing whilst performing exercises. The pores of the body are weary of being shut away from the light rays, and most of us suffer severely from "light hunger." There was beauty in Madame Alwyn's exercises, and an easy grace which delighted the onlookers. • * • •

"If I had lots of money I would] always travel by air," writes Mrs. Clement Chapman, who flew to Pwis, and later crossed from Ostend h£ sea, "an awful crossing." During Mrs. Chapman's stay in Paris she heard "Aida," writes Isabel Eamsay in a Sydney paper. She also visited Brussels and Ypres, where she saw the "Menin Gate'! to the memory to 64,000 soldiers. All the devastated ar«"a -s now cleaned up, and new villages h ve been constructed. It is six years sin e Mrs. Chapman visited the battlefield, and it was extremely interesting to see wnr.o busy r tion the Belgians are, and all they have done in those years.

At an evening party I was at, states a lady in a London fashion journal, Commander Louis Grieg was talking to me about the Duke of York's tennis. The Duke plays extraordinarily well, and yet just falls short of championship rank. Why? Because he lacks privacy for his play. Other players " can practise quietly and unobserved. He never can, jind it gs a great strain pa-Ms. neryesv