LONDON PERSONALS

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21147, 24 April 1934, Page 3

LONDON PERSONALS

I our own correspondent.) LONDON, March 15. His Majesty the King held the first Levee of the season at St. James's Palace, on March 13. Prince Chula Chakrabongse, of Siam, and the following members of the Royal Family were present. The Prince of Wales, attended by Admiral Sir Lionel Halscy; the Duke of York, attended by Rear-Admiral Sir Basil Brooke; the Marquess of Carisbrooke. Captain Oliver Bevir, Royal Navy, on promotion, was presented by the First Lord of the Admiralty. Captain Cecil Reyne, Royal Navy, on appointment as Aide-de-Camp to his Majesty the King, was presented by the First Lord of the Admiralty. Captain Bevir will be going out to New Zealand shortly. Captain M. J. C. de Meric, M.V.0., has taken over the duties of AssistantDirector of Naval Equipment, Admiralty, in succession to Captain S. S. Bonham-Carter, D.5.0., who has served for the usual two years, and who is to command H.M.S. Sussex, in which Prince George will leave England for Australia at the end of August. Captain de Meric was promoted in December, 1929, and has since commanded the cruisers Diomede and Dunedin on the New Zealand station. His last service at the Admiralty was on the staff of the Second Sea Lord in 1927-29. _ Miss Lucille Lisle, the young Wellington actress, made a good recovery from the operation which she underwent some months ago, and she returned in due course to her part in The Late Christopher Bean," which is still having a great run at St. James' Theatre, with Sir C. Hardwicke and Ldith Evans playing the leads. Miss J-.isle has a minor part as one of the two daughters of the Welsh doctor, but she plays it with understanding and marked charm. The Repertory .?? re *' s llex t Sunday night production will be a comedy bv Joan Temple entitled "Flowery Walk." In this Miss Lucille Lisle has a leading part, and others to appear by courtesy of their respective managements will be Misses Diana Hamilton, Hilary Pritchard. and Amy Veness-. Messrs Ronald Ward, Basil Radford, and James Raglan. On March 13 the High Commissioner for New Zealand attended, at Goldsmiths' Hall, the annual testing of the coinage of the realm, known as the "Trial of the Pyx." The Pyx jury consists of freemen of the Goldsmiths' Company. In the Middle Ages it was not uncommon for the King's moneyers to mutilate money for their own profit, and it was to prevent this that the "Trial of the Pyx" was originally held. Last year the jury stated: "We found no gold coins in the Pyx," and added that the tested samples were "within the remedy as to weight" allowed under the Coinage Act. Dr. P'elix M. Keesing (Auckland) has been appointed to a part-teaching, part-research position on the staff of the University of Hawaii. He will leave London late in May for Honolulu, via the United States. Mrs Keesing, who has been working with Dr. Keesing on studies of native peoples of the Pacific, under the auspices of the Institute of Pacific Relations, intends to pay a short visit to New Zealand en route to Hawaii. I Miss C. M. Herbert (Auckland, directress of music at St. Cuthbert's College) has arrived on a year's leave of absence, primarily to study the methods used for teaching music in schools. She hopes to visit a number of schools ir\ Great Britain, and she is thinking also of taking a course of study at the Royal Academy of Music. Miss Herbert expects to have the opportunity of touring in England and Scotland, and she anticipates making a Continental tour as well.