CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28167, 4 January 1957, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Miss Barbara Levien, M.Sc., who spent a year as a lecturer at Canterbury University College, has arrived in Auckland to attend the conference of the Australian and New’Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, to be held in Dunedin from January 16 to January 23. Miss Levien is a lecturer in inorganic chemistry at the University of Western Australia, in Perth. She was a pupil of Epsom Girls’ Grammar School and also attended Auckland University College. Miss Levien graduated B.Sc. and M.Sc., after which she spent a year as a lecturer at Canterbury University College and another year working at Westfield in the laboratory of one of the meat companies. She went from New Zealand to her present post m Perth.

During her 14 years with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studios. Miss Helen Rose has designed costumes for more than 200 films, says Constance Sharp Sammis in the “Christian Science Monitor.” In 1952, she was awarded an “Oscar” for best costume designing during the year and three years later was awarded another in the same capacity. She has designed many wedding gowns for film actresses including Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Powell, Ann Blyth and two gowns for the wedding of Princess Grace of Monaco. Since the commencement of the “Ice Follies” Company, she has designed the costumes each year with the exception of the 1955 season. Women patients in hospitals tend to respond better and to recuperate more quickly if the walls of their wards are painted pink, while men recover more easily and respond to treatment if the walls are blue or green, according to a colour expert, Miss M. R. Purchase, when she discussed the painting of hospitals, factories, schools and offices in Paarl. Cape. The most important contribution was the safety colouring used in industry and the identification colours of supply pipes and conduits used in factories, whereby the contents could be known at a glance. She. suggested that architectual stud-' ents should take a course in colour as part of their studies to help them in future house and building planning.—Reuter.