THE SOCIAL ROUND

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1928, Page 10

THE SOCIAL ROUND

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. and Mrs. M. ] J± Pinlctt, of Toronto, aru at the Roval Hotel.

Mr-. McGregor. of Helensville, is visit inj: Aiu'-'aiul.

• • • • Mrs. M. Daniell, of Palmerston North, is at tile Hotel Stonehurst.

• • • • Mr?. R. C. McC'onnell, of Sydney, is staying at the Hotel Stonehurst. # # • •

Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Scott, of Nelson, arc at the Central Hotel.

• m • • Mr. and Mrs. .1. fiaisford, of Marton, arc on a. visit to Auckland. • • • •

Mrs. and Miss Pyne, of Christchurch, have been spending Easter in Paris.

Mis. P. Rylance, of Sydney, is a nutigh passenger on the Aorangi. • » # •

.Mrs. P J. Solomon returned to Levuka, Fij : . bv the Tofua on Saturday.

Airs. D. Barker, who has been visitAuckland, returned this morning to WardviJle. » * • •

Mrs. R. Loan, wire of tne manager oi Melbourne Stadium,' is a through passenger on the Aorangi.

Miss Holland has returned to Auckland after spending the summer in Kotorua. • ... • • • •

Miss Coldicutt has returned to Auckland from visiting friends in Christchurch.

Lady Hall-Jones and the Misses' Hall - Jones, of Wellington, are among the guests at the Central Hotel.

Sir V\alter Stringer and Lady Stringer hove arrived from Wellington, and are ai.inng the guests at Braeburn.

Mrs. Frank Mills, of Paparoa, is the guest of Mrs. Felix Kelly, Victoria Avenue. • * • •

Grand Hotel guests include Mrs. J, Taylor, of Sydney, and Mrs, P. W. Jones, of Christchnreh. • • • •

Miss Mavis Adamson, of Wanganui, js spending a short holiday in Auckland. V

Mrs. Barker and Miss Molly Barker, of Suva, arrived by the. Aorangi yesterday, and are staying at the Rsyal Hotel.

Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Phillips, of England, arrived by the Aorangi yesterday to visit their son. They are among the guests nt |)ie Grand Hotel.

Mr. and: Mrs. 8. Waldron, of Honolulu,, arrived by the Aorangi Yesterday on a visit to the Dominion, and are staying at the, Grand Hotel.

Miss Dorothy Williams and Miss piiekby were passengers by the Aorangi this morning for Sydney, where they will ,< trans-ship to the Aki Maru for Japan..

Miss Laura Montgomery, of the Auckland Hospital massage staff, is leaving by the Aorangi for London where she intends taking a post graduate course at Guy's Hospital. • • • •

Miss M. Burnley, leading. lady for "Good News" Company, who is engaged to appear at St. James Theatre, Sydney, is a passenger passing through on the Aorangi.

Miss Dale Austin, better known as "Miss. New Zealand," and her chaperons, Mrs. B. Vernon, returned on the Aorangi yesterday after ,an absence of five mouths. During her three months stay in Hollywood Miss Austin acted in several pictures.

11m. Jenkinson, of Victoria Avenue, Auckland, returned from a six weeks trip to Otago. She was specially sent for to attend the reunion of old Warepa settlers to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of its siettlement.

Mrs. P. Napier an§, Miss M. Napier, of Auckland, who travelled via Canada and New York, left London a few days ago for a motor tour of England,' Wales and Scotland. They hope to spend some time on the Continent before leaving for New Zealand.

Mrs. G. Laurenson and her daughter, of Cliristchurch, are in England on a jjleasure trip. They aie al present on a . tour of Somerset and Devon, and expect to return to London this month. After a few months they hope to visit Scot'nnd and the Continent.

Miss Ina Wallace and her sister, Miss B. Wallace, of Palmerston North, who travelled Panama, arrived in London on December 7. 1027. Miss I. Wallace is there on business, and hopes to go to Paris shortly on a baying trip, while her sister is studying a six months' course. Before sailing on July 20, by the Corinthic, for New Zealand, they hope to spend a short time with relatiohn in Scotland.

Mr«. R. Anthony Carr, F.R.G.S., of New Zealand,-is exhibiting water-colour drawings at the Forum Club in May, and later at Graham's Gallery, New Bond Street. Mrs. Carr is giving the proceeds of the sale of the pictures to Dr. Barnardo's Home—a worthy object. Her range of subjects is very wide. Whangarei Harbour, old cottages in Haslemere, Surrey, the Panama. Canal, a street in Assuan, and olive trees in the South of France, are among her varied and attractive subjects.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Sheehan and Miss Jta Sheehan, of Invercargill, who travelled via Vancouver, are now in England. En routo they visited Suva and Honolulu, and reached Vancouver on March 2. They eroded Canada and the United States via the Canadian National Railway, »ncl during their journey called at Winnipeg, St. Paul, Minneapolis, CMcapo, Detroit, Niagara Falls and New York. They sailed from New York hy the Olympic and reached Southampton on March 22, proceeding immediately to Aragert, County Kerry, Inland. After travelling throughout Ireland and ?! 2 nd, , aml vieitftg Parie and turn ♦*' t Mr v, anfl *'». Sheehan win reroute 'or New Zealand about

This story, which appeared in the "Daily Express" on April 10, 19*28, is sent by our London correspondent with all due reserve since no trace of the New Zealander mentioned can be found: "'The wedding between Sir John Dunn, fit., son of a former Lord Mayor of London, and Miss Mignonne Mauger, a New Zealand actress, which was to have been celebrated at Easter, has not taken place. Miss Mauger, who has left for Boston, is reported to have said, 'There will not a wedding to-morrow. The engagement is off. I am sorry, as Sir John is such a lovely man.' One New York newspaper declares that Misa Mauger left Sir John, waiting at the church; another states that her announcement that Blie would not many Sir John was made at a party which was arranged for the night before the ceremony, and was held without regard to any change in circumstances. The two have been much in each other's company for a considerable time past, and have acted together at a Greenwich village theatre, where", it is said, the engagement and the agreement to marry at Easter were made. Sir John Dunn succeeded his father, Sir William Dunn, as baronet in 1926. He has appeared on the stage in Great Britain and in several productions in America. Miss is the daughter of avmember of the New Zealand Legislature."

Miss Ivy >A. Nicholls, of Monavale, Cambridge, left Sydney by the Otranto on February 29, and had a pleasant trip, stopping at Cairo en route. Miss Nicholls hopes to visit Switzerland, and also to see something of Germany and France before Railing for Quebec in July, and intends leaving New York for New Zealand, via Panama, about December.