SOCIAL GATHERINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 250, 22 October 1928, Page 10

SOCIAL GATHERINGS.

Mrs. F. Moore celebrated her seventysixth birthday on Saturday by giving a morning tea, at the Tudor Rooms. The hostess, who was inundated with bouquets of beautiful spring flowers and presents, wore a black silk marocain and a , black coat, and hat with mount. Among the guests were Mrs. Lippiatt, Mrs. Lane, Miss J. Moore, Miss Y. McVeagh, Miss Essam, Miss McVeagh, Miss Jones, and Miss Collins.

The ladies of St. David's Presbyterian Church Guild, Te Aroha, held a very successful concert and bazaar in the Y.M.C.A. Buildings, Waitoa, on Wednesday. The hall was gaily decorated and laid out with well-stocked stalls, and the following ladies worked untiringly: Town secretary, Mrs. Lewis; country secretary, Miss D. Malcolm; doorkeeper, Mrs. Weeks; afternoon tea stall, Mesdames Lynch, Whisker, Craig, Mills, and Bloomfield; cake stall, Mesdames Harkness and Harris; guild stall, Te Aroha ladies. As a result of the effort the funds will be benefited to the extent of £30. In the evening musical items were rendered by Misses Fagen, Kinneburgh, Malcolm, Whisket", Lewis, and Blackman, and Messrs. Clark, Jennings and the Rev. Haslop.

Ifa King George's Hall, Mount Albert, the Mount Albert Gymnastic and Ladies' Physical Culture Classes gave an interesting entertainment to a crowded hall of interested residents of the district. The display was given under the direction of Mr. R. Lewis and Miss Loi? Cockroft. The programme included physical and musical drill, scarf drill and lantern marching by the junior girls and boys, also parallel bar and tumbling acts by selected squads. The seniors gave finished displays of parallel bar, vaulting horse and horizontal bar acts, together with various novelty turns. Other outstanding items of interest and merit were a unique tumbling and balancing display by Messrs. Shackell and R. Lewis, an exhibition of electric club swinging by Miss Lois Cockroft and Mr. R. Lewis, and the clever and humorous acting of the two clowns, members of the club. Distributed ~ through the varied programme were various items of humour supplied by Mr. Alan McElwain. During the evening the president of the club, Mr. A. W. Page, spoke of the work the classes were doing from week to week under the guidance of Misss Lois Cockroft and Mr. R. Lewis.

"Drama Since the War" was the subject of Mr. Shaw's address to members of the League of Penwomen on Friday afternoon. The speaker began by going back before, the war and making a brief sketch of the type of play that existed then. He quoted "Cast" by Robinson, and Lord JLytton's /'Lady of Lyons" as examples. Then came the conventional Victorian age, wherein the dramatists made no attempt of drawing natural characters, and employed stilted dialogue. The coming of reality with Heririk Ibsen's plays of living people was the most epoch-making period. He branched away from melodrama and began to put questions of life on the stage. The drama of ideas came into its own. Mr. Shaw touched on the art of Pinero, Bernard Shaw, Barrie and Galsworthy, and other dramatists before the war. "Then," he said, "across this suddenly swung the Great War, which gave a new audience to the sta«?e." He explained the effect of the.'audjence which consisted of young pdople who wanted their "ginger hot in the';mouth"; who wanted movement and spectacle. Then came the development of ,the cinema and the demand for the obvious. Mr. Shaw referred to the reaction t owan^B nlays by men of the calibre of Sean O'Casev, Brighouse. Eden Philpatts, 4tc.» and in conclusion said that it did not J do to take a pessimistic of the theatre; Shakespeare never had a finer redord of dramatic achievement than the ten vears after the war.' • • ;

Mi? s Spencer's studio. Symonds Street, was we'll filled with dancing enthusiasts on Saturday evening, when Mr. Jack Rowe and his assistants provided some new dance items. Among those present were: Miss Spencer, apricot net beaded; Mrs. Spencer, gold and old rose satin; Mrs. Schmidt, apple green georgette and crystal; Mr'e. A. Taylor, cherry satin, and gold lace; Miss Rhodes, mauve taffeta; Miss Deane, iris blue georgette and silver lace; Miss I. Howard, china blue georgette and fur; Miss B. Barry, apricot crepe de chine and lace; Miss Kent, rose pink embossed velvet; Miss M. Dunn, jade green georgette and gold lame; Miss Simpson, iris mauve taffeta; Mis? J. Casey, powder blue georgette and silver lace; Miss A. Stewart, coral pink taffeta; Miss King, floral crepe de chine and beige georgette; Miss J. Cox, electric blue georgette; Miss J. Pomeroy, fle?h pink georgette; Miss C. Bain, old rose chiffon.and gold; Miss Milne, cornflower blue georgette and shell'pink; Miss Berridge, embroidered pink georgette and lace; Miss Heald. ivory satin frock with silver; Mips Daniels, opal Hue taffeta; Miss G. Bowen, black georgette and cherry; Miss Munro, larkspur ring velvet and diamante ;'Miss Rl Wickham, shell pink cliiffon and silver lace; Miss E. Casey, black lace frock, silver shawl; Miss E. Fernandez, powder blue satin and silver lace;.' Miss Walton, turquoise bine crepe de chine, floral shawl; . s . ? McCormack, Ivory embossed georgette; Miss E. Potter, ciel blue crepe de inink Inn gol< i la " 1e; Miss E - Morris. Mha'&Sfl and fl apple green P eor gette; Orient ?r-' e T pe de chine > with oriental raawl; Miss Denton, ivorr msor. gette beaded in mauve and Viol'ef. ' * 1

The Greenhithe Women's Institute held their monthly meeting on Thursday. There was a very good attendance and the president (Mrs. Coulam) presided. A vote of sympathy was passed with the relatives of their late member, Mrs. Moody. All the members were called to participate in organising the November meeting, which is to take the form of a dramatic performance, followed by a mock banquet. After afternoon tea there was an interesting display of ingenious and varied articles made from sugar bags, the voting resulted in Mrs. Irwin and Miss Peachey taking first and second prizes respectively.

The Mayoress' War Memorial Library League still continues to carry on the work commenced nine years ago, when the league, then committee, was organised after the disbanding of the Literature Committee of the Women's Patriotic League. Now and again it comes before the public to appeal for books and magazines and also for financial help. Every year the league holds jumble sales and bring and buys, to raise funds, to carry on the work. The big effort this year is a garden party at Mrs. Kidd's, Gillies Avenue, Epsom, next week-end. At this time of the year housewives are clearing gluttered shelves and cases of reading matter of all kinds • and little realise what a wealth of comfort, instruction and help, not to be gauged by monetary standards, finds its way to the rubbish heap, and the hundreds of gaily-coloured cards' meaning bright moments to the aged and the young that are thrown out to make way for new cards—all these have a value to the Mayoress' War Memorial Library League, who are already preparing for Xmas despatch to backblock farmers, soldier settlers, soldiers convalescent and in hospital, lighthouses, or children in orphanages and in country hospitals, local institutions and to the lonely islands of the Pacific.

Mrs. J. Youlin Birch gave a delightful party at the Penrith rooms on Saturday evening, the occasion being the engagement of their young son Arvine and Miss Kitty Williamson. The rooms were prettily arranged in hanging baskets of ferns, various favours being distributed among the guests. Vocal and instrumental items were provided by The Snappy Three, Misses Moore, Gladys Ryan, Williamson, and Barry Inglis' Orchestra. The hostess received the guests in an apricot stencilled crepe de chine, with French floral trimming, Spanish mauve shawl; Miss Williamson, salver grey georgette inset with lace medallions, and rose velvet sash; Mrs. Graham Birch, apricot hand-painted • georgette; Mrs. W. Simpson, almond green georgette; .Mrs. B. Bunker, pale pink embroidered satin and lace; Mrs. J. Williamson, navy blue hand-em-broidered georgette; Mrs. J. M. Bell, floral crepe de chine; Mrs. Hanson, ciel blue crepe de chine; Mrs. H. Moore, black brocaded georgette; Mrs. Hanna (Scotland), crimson and black chiffon; Mrs. J. Scott, navy crepe de chine; Mrs. Pringle, black georgette; Miss Scott, navy georgette; Mrs. W. Bell, deep blue crepe de chine; Miss Clark, jade crepe de chine; Miss Paulton, pastel blue chiffon; Miss F. Bell, sequin pink georgette; Miss Corr, rose georgette; Miss McKay, pale pink lace and georgette; Mrs, Edwards, navy blue georgette; Miss Edwards, pale green Mrs. Belcher, black lace and crepe de chine; Miss M. Moore, wine coloured velvet; Mies Nod we 11, deep rose chiffon; Miss Gladys Ryan, beaded georgette; Miss Anderson, pale pink georgette and lace; Miss Bailey, apple green taffeta; Miss Kust, apple green silk crepe fleuri; Miss Mis tell, rose crepe de chine; Mrs. Dickensen, deep mulberry, with Oriental lace overdress; Mrs. Simmons, delphinium georgette; Mrs. Wright, pale pink georgette with blue aqd silver tissue; Miss Stairs, pink brocaded , georgette and lace; Mtes I. Moore, powder blue chiffon and silver; Miss W. Moore, hyacinth blue georgette; Miss Goodwin, coral "pink taffeta and silver lace.''