AT HOME AND ABROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 227, 25 September 1930, Page 13

AT HOME AND ABROAD.

The French woman lawyer, Miss Flora Rosemberg, was recently granted a license to practise in Kiangsu High Court and the Shanghai Special Provincial Court. She- is a graduate of the University of Eennes, was admitted to the Bar in" France, and in 1921 to the practice of law before the French Mixed Court and the International Mixed Court in Shanghai, being the first and only woman lawyer to receive this distinction. Two years later Miss Soume Tcheng, a Chinese woman lawyer, was registered,-but Miss' Rosemberg remains the only foreign woman lawyer in Shanghai. • • # • Conspicuous success, says "The Women's World," of Melbourne has greeted the formation of the Cinematographers. Club by Mies Lorna Lowe. Her ambition was fired after a trip to England, during which she "shot" several thousand feet of film. After her first announcement Miss Lowe was inundated with offers to join up. She did not realise there were so many enthusiasts in Sydney. These amateurs hope to make a picture very soon; but in the meantime they are taking films and showing them to each other. The standard of photography is very high. The suggestion that pictures have a fashionable as well as artistic influence on women comes from the London correspondent of the Melbourne "Leader" who, commenting on the recent exhibition of Italian works of art in London, advised women to visit the display and study the line, tone, and colourings of the paintings. "It will greatly add to their understanding of the art of dress," she wrote. Draperies of grace as employed by Duccio, the crimson and. black, with truant edgings of white, and the green shades of grass and trees as attained by Giorgione; the diagonal line used by Titian, his ruby, sapphire and amethyst tints for his robust .wonwi; the cool greys and blues employed by Paul Veronese ; the hartnony between complexion and dress gained by Corregio, the statuesque, tender and warm draperies of Tintoretto, the "middle-aged woman's mentor," are quoted as being inspiration for women seeking detail fcyypxquj£ite dressing.