THE SOCIAL ROUND

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 205, 31 August 1933, Page 12

THE SOCIAL ROUND

PERSONAL ITEMS. Miss Barbara Thome George is staying with friends at Kawau. « * * * Mrs. A. Brille-Slyper, of Melbourne, is at present oil a visit to Auckland. Miss Jean Pearce, of Rotorua, is staying with Mrs. G. Clarkson, of Epsom. Mrs. P. Ruddiford returned to the Dominion by the Rangitane yesterday. Mrs. X. McCartney an'ived by the Rangitane, and leaves for Wellington to-morrow. Mrs. A. Hassall and Miss Q. Hassall arrived from Sydney by the Wanganella, via Wellington. » * * « Miss Annette Thome George, who has been on a visit to Hawke's Bay and Wellington, lias returned to Auckland. * ft * * Station Hotel visitors include: Mrs. T. Robertson (Aka Aka), Mrs. E. S. Thomson and Mrs. Willies (Christchurch). * * » • Miss E. Hitchcock, of the Dental Department, Wellington, is on a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. Hitchcock, Matamata. * * * • Miss Christian Alexander, of Wanganui, is on a visit to Auckland, and is the guest of Mrs. N. R. Alexander, Paritai Drive, Orakei. Miss Amy Kane, president of the Pioneer Club, Wellington, who was in Auckland in connection with the drama festival, returned last evening. * * Hr • Mrs. George Gould and her daughter, who have been abroad for some months, returned to New Zealand by the Rangitata. They will be leaving Tor Christchurch to-morrow. « * • • Mrs. C. Suddard Foster, of Tauranga, who has been in England for nearly three months, is staying in Stevenage. Mrs. Foster went primarily to sec her parents, who have during the past 12 years paid lier three visits in New Zealand. She was going to Germany for several weeks to Westphalia and the Rhine. Mrs. Foster had the exciting experience of just getting home to England on August 2, 1914, from Germany, where she had been for four years, a period which she spent mostly in Essen-Ruhr. There she had the entree to Krupp social affairs. She is therefore looking forward to seeing Germany of to-day. Later she is going north to see as much of the historic places of the Old Country for the sake of her son Donald, who is with her. Mrs. Foster relates of her student days that her music professor, Carlo Albanesi, told her he had a new pupil coming on after her, and that the new student, who had enormous hands, came from New Zealand. The boy arrived, and Mrs. Foster was quite interested in him, and later they used to play B°etlioven's "Moonlight" Sonata on two pianos, as they were both going up for the licentiateship. They both passed. The boy was Viator Booth.