CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26516, 3 September 1951, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mrs Paul Wood, who with her husband arrived in Auckland recently from England, will arrive in Christchurch on September 11 and leave for Wellington on September 21. The following day she and Dr. Wood will leave for Sydney by air. While in Christchurch Mrs Wood will be the guest of her uncle and aunt. Dr. and Mrs Neil Guthrie, Cranmer square.

Mrs Hazel Scott, of Christchurch, has been appointed dancing judge for the Hutt Valley Festival, to be held during the Royal visit next year. Mrs Scott has recently been judging the ballet section at the Hawera competitions.

Miss Winifred Galbraith, a religious education specialist, will arrive in Christchurch to-day. Miss Galbraith will be the guest of Mrs Peter Wood, Papanui road.

Miss Mildred Mode, international secretary for the Girl Scouts of the United States, will spend a week in New Zealand next month. A tour covering Wellington, Hawke’s Bay, Rotorua, and Auckland is being arranged for her by the Girl Guides’ Association.

A programme of songs, dances, and recitations by young persons and arranged by Mrs Lord and Mrs Williams was given at a social at the Pensioners’ Club.

According to “Variety,” the long-run list of musicals reads: “Oklahoma,” 2248 performances (original runs only); “Hellzapoppin’”, 1404; ‘‘Annie Get Your Gun," 1147; “Pins and Needles.” 1108. “Kiss Me, Kate” is now well over the 1000 mark and is still booked out months ahead. <

It takes five and a half days, one ballpoint pen refill, 450 cigarettes, and 60 cups of tea to produce one script for the popular 8.8. C. show “Take It From Here.” This information was given .by the wives of two members of the script-writing team who are in Sydney for the home-coming of Dick Bentley. In Paris and New York sunglasses are taking on strange shapes. One can buy them set into visor-like veils. Other models have triangular frames, slots so that they can be tied on with ribbons, and frames in i rainbow colours.

Ingrid Bergman, who had announced her retirement from the screen, will make another film this year. The picture will show a great deal of Rome and will be directed by Rossellini, who is her husband.

Cuff and glove watches are the newest jewellery novelty in Paris. These are mainly in the shape of a flower attached to the cuff with a clip. Mellerio shows a gold diamond-studded rose. When one petal is pressed back the heart of the rose opens to reveal a tiny gold watch. There should be special shops for older women, as well as teen-age shops, according to Dr. Martin Gumpert, a New' York physician, who has specialised in geriatrics—a branch of medicine dealing with old age. “As it is now they usually have only a choice between something jazzy or drab clothes without any style at all,” he declared recently. He said that older women liked to be as fashionably dressed as younger members of their sex.

A perfume gadget which is to be sold in New York shops shortly is being turned out by a match company. It looks just like a folder of matches, but each stick has a perfume head, which, rubbed on the skin, leaves its special fragrance.

Cyclax of London creates the Lipstick to tone with the colours that fashion decrees for this gay spring season . . . choose from an exciting array of shades and priced at 9/3 and 15/6 each. Available at Ballantynes Cyclax Counter. —Advt.