AT HOME AND ABROAD..

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 5, 7 January 1931, Page 11

AT HOME AND ABROAD..

Thf? Danish Women's Association held its first summer school at Danebod Hign School during the summer. It was an unqualified success, and will < probably become one of the association s regular annual fixtures. . • * * * The money value of* .women does not equal the money value of men even yet, but in 1830 'it stood lower/ for the "Evening Standard" stated: '• We hear from Botherham that a miner took his wife into the market place there last Monday and sold her for 3d." * * * * The women of Ecuador have won equal citizenship rights, says the "International News Service," Vaux- , hall 1 Bridge Road, London. Article 13 of the Constitution) lays down that "Each Ecuadorean man or woman over' 4 the age of 21 who knows how to read and write is a citize'n." . * '* » * About twenty women doctors took dart in the Seventh Conference of the International Union for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, which was held at Ualo in August of this year. This union has national groups' in 38 countries, and among women who took an active pait at the conference were Dr. Stella Churchill (Great Britain), Dr. Alice Armand Ugon (Uruguay), Dr. PeasekicaZeuland (Poland), Professor Lydia Ratinovitch-Kempner (Berlin), JJr. Helena. Klein (Sweden) and Dr. Ingeborg Aas (Norway). : ' * * * .. . * To what nobler end could woman direct her£ efforts than towards the establishment of world peace and tlie 'recognition <if sex equality?:. The record of accomplishment-in these two altruistic aims is established" by Carrie •iChapman Catt, veteran leader, in the women's suffrage movement, according, to the. "Pictorial Review." She will receive the magazine's annual achievebent'award of 5000 dollars.. Mrs. Catt ' s does not need the money. The causes for which she labours do, and the prize will probably be where the money will be most useful in advancing her work. Even those who disagree with "Mrs. Catt's methods must admire lier purpose and her' zeal. Combination of the 'two, right purpose _ and unflagging zeal will win a prize foi any woman who uses them as consistently -as -Mrs. Catt has done.

Miss Judith Wogan is managing director of the Graft-on Theatre, iondon, which is entirely controlled by women. Miss Wogan says it .is not for doctrinaire reasons, but because the people whom ehe knew, "-with executive ability, happened to be of her own The theatre is international in its scope, and work of young writers in - different nationalities will be produced. It is interesting to know that the women directors are courageous enough to be taking the lead, in giving youth an outlet on the stage, and providing the opportunity for it to unfurl the ner of a new dramatic era. The present programme includes items: by Katherine Mansfield, F. Molnar, F. van Hengelaar and Geoffrey Dunn. Mile. Brico, who graduated from the University of California as Wilhelmina Wolthue, is now to conduct the San Francisco Symphony Oychestra. She has had a. remarkable musical career since her graduation. ■ She was one of nine applicants, and the only woman admitted to the Berlin School for Orchestra Conductors." Graduating with high honours, she made an immediate success as orchestra conductor in Berlin, and also as a. coach at the Berlin Opera. An invitation to conduct the PhiDiarmonic Orchestra of Berlin is considered the height of a conductor's career, and Mile. Brico soon received such an invitation, being the first woman to conduct what is reputed to be the greatest orchestra in Europe. After this, success, Mile. Brico was invited to return to America, and on her return was chosen as one of the conductors of tab Summer Symphony Concerts in Sun Francisco, and of the Los Angeles Symphony. Mile. Brico has been the protege of noted musicians such as Stpkowski, Muck and Furtwangler.