AT HOME AND ABROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 273, 18 November 1931, Page 13

AT HOME AND ABROAD.

| Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Monckton. late 01 j Fiji, who have been living for some | vears in Jersey, have let their house tor 1 two years, an dare going to spend that itime in Maiorca. ». " *• * * ! j The Hon. Mrs. Nigel Gathorne-Hardy. writes our London correspondent on September IS. has gone to Wellington to stay with her mother. Lady Johnson. who has been ill. * Miss Mary It. Mackenzie. 0: Auckland, whose stage name is "Sunny Constance. * is appearing: in "Cavalcade." the lavish new Noel Coward play which is being produced at Drory Lane Theatre. London. Lady Rutherford was present at a dinner given in London by the Forum Club to the wives of delegates, attending the Faraday Centenary meetings. Mrs. Niels Bohr, wife of the brilliant pupil end colleague of Lord Euthenorl. was also present. Miss, E. -J. Lyttelton (G. B. Lancaster! went to London for a few months alter spending last winter in Italy and Spain. After going to Jersey, Channel Islands, to visit her brother. Mr. W. E. Lyttelton, she intended going to New York, and then to the Southern States for the winter. She mav revisit New Zealand. Miss; Audrey Williams, ?cccmpanied by her aunt. Miss Hilda Williams, has leit England for her home ju Lowry Bay. I Mis; Audrey Williams is a daughter ut the late Mr. Erl Williams and Mrs. Geoffrey Elkington. and recently became engaged to Mr. Benjamin Annitage. a London solicitor. 2diss "V\ illiams nas: been studying for six years in France j and England. j The death has occurred in London of Lucas Malei, the novelist, aged 79. She was the daughter of Charles Kingsley. her name in private life lemg 1 Lepere Harrison. "The Wages 01 sin " B and "The History of Sir Eichard Calmady" l are among her earlier "The Tall Villa/' "The Suivivors" and. "The Days, of Want" were written j within the last decade. If The many friends of the late Miss 3i. ij B. Turner, BA. from Auckland to InI i ver car gill, will be interested to jenow | II that a"Marguerite Turner prize fund has! 11 been instituted at Wellington Girls 1 If College. where she served a - history mi l -j 11 tress for several years. Similar prizes 1 | bave also been founded at Skinners'] j Company's School for Girls. Stamior-1 i | Hill. London, where 3I:s? Turner re- j | ceived her early education. I Miss Rosemary Bees, who has been | j working on her new book, had a very; i pleasant interlude (writes our London i correspondent}. when she was invited toi 1 tour with a Repertory Company, formed! {by Mr. Algernon Mills, son of Lady; j Montgomery. It was a band of young: I• enthusiasts- and a very charming com-j ■' pany. Mr. Mills recently made hi- mark > I ] in "The Limping ilsn." Miss Bees played I El Ellis -Jenerys' part in "On Approval."; | j "Outward Bound." These "three plays' I; alone show how such a group of reperliiory player; must cultivate versatility— liin fact, be real actors. Mr. C yril Maude. • 1 ] who went to the show twice, wrote to j I the "Dally Mail" that this was the most: II brilliant company of young players he 1 jihad ever seen. He tola Mi=s Rees nerseii ■ '•he had never seen the part of the c-har- j 11 woman in "Outward Bound" played so 11 beautifully.