PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19508, 3 January 1929, Page 3

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

t'raost oub ow.v cokbesfoxdext.) LONDON. November "J7. The directors of the Midland Bank announce that Admiral of the Fleet Earl Jelli c-oe has been appointed to a seat on the Board of the Bank. Lord Jellic-oe will thus assume his third directorship, as he is already a member of the London Board of the Bank of Zealand and a director of Cavzer, Irvine and Co., Ltd., of which company Admiral Sir Charles Madden is also a director. Great regret is felt by the members of the Alassio Chess Club by the resignation of Mr S. S. Blackburne of the post of honorary secretary. Mr Blackburne. who started this club in Italy two years ago, has been untiring in his eiforts to make it a success. His courtesy and energy have combined to make chess one of the most successful offshoots of the British Club. A vote or' thanks was passed by the committee of tile club to Mr Blackburne. and Mrs Richards has been elected honorary secretary in his place. Mr Blackburne was formerly Chess Editor of the "Canterbury Times," and is well known in chess circles as the author of "Terms aud Themes of Chess Problems.'' At the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, on November '.2lth, the Vice-Chancellor, in Congregation, conferred a number of degrees. New Zealauders in the list were:—D.Phil., D. E. Denny-Brown, Magdalen College (New Plymouth). M.A., Miss Frances M. C. Raymond, St. Hilda's College (Christchurch). In Congregation at Cambridge oil the same day, the Senate conferred degrees. E. B. O'Rorke (Auckland) received his M.A. He is at Jesus College, Mr Dennis Broun, B.Sc., who- is at present with the Department of Physics, Leeds University, lias accepted the posi tion of Senior Assistant Lecturer in Physics, Auckland University College. He will sail for the Dominion at the end of December. Information lias been received that Mr George M. Moir, M.Sc. (formerly of Ota go University), lias been awarded the Pedler Research Scholarship of the Institute of Chemistry for a research on the proteins of milk to be earned out- at the National Institute for l!e----searoh in Dairvii'z at Heading. This is the first award of the first scholarship that has ever been offered by the Institute of Chcir.istrv, which is the leading association of chemists in Great Britain, and it is a matter for satisfaction that such a distinction should fall to a New Zealander. Mr K. A. Allen (Auckland) has joined the chemical staff of the Shell Combine, and he will be in England about a year. He "will probably then go to Venezuela or Mexico. It is announced that Lieut.-Colonel G. W. Geddes, D.5.0., has been promoted to the rank of Colonel. He lately retired from the East Yorkshire Regiment on half pay, Mr Shavle Gardner has returned to London from Berlin, where lie has been playing lead in two new films. One, of London Cockney life, is called "The Alley Cut." Mabel Poulton has played opposite liirn. The other is called "Adventurers, Limited," and is from the story by Mrs Agatha Christie. In Hex Ingram's "Three Passions," which is expected to be released toward the end of the year, the New Zealander played the part of the V iscount Bellaniont — England's richest man. Pending the release of this big film, Mr Gardner will spend a few weeks near Tunis. He and Miss Poulton were among the fifty passengers who had a very bad crossing from Ostend a week ago. Three hours after leaving the Belgian port the con-

ditions became so difficult that the cap- Curia Oddono di Telctto, a beautiful tain decided to make for Dunkirk. Here young Italian lady. Tho "Morning he anchored for the night and the pas- Post" Paris correspondent says that Mr sengers reached London after a jour- Brownlcc was much applauded in "La nev of twenty-one hours. Toiir de Feu, - ' by iSylvio Lazzari, His Mr John Browulee, tho Australian engagement at the Opera is for 12 baritone, has returned to the Paris months, in tho .course of which lie will opera after a highly successful sis sing the leading baritone parts in months' tour in Australia with a n 11111- "Thais," "Parsilal," ; ' Hamlet, ber of the principal artists from I*a "Aida," and Mr BrownScala in Milan. On Noyember 29tli he lee, wl|o is l! 7 years old, has aiieady will be married in Paris to the Contessa had flattering offers ironi America.