SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 50, 22 November 1907, Page 3

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

The dramatic entertainment givon yesterday afternoon at Sydney Street schoolroom by members of tho Girls' Realm Guild and their friends was entirely successful as far as the acting and the appreciation of the audience were concerned. Where the proportion of failure came in was as regards the size of the audience. It was far too small'for tho merits of the performance, and it is to Ijo hoped that when the programmo is repcuU-.l to-night the.hall will bo lillcd. The curtainraiser ." Shattered Nerves," which was given by the Misses Rita and Elsie Simpson, under the direction of Miss Hardingo-Maltby, was a clever skit on health fads of to-day, and Lady Flora Clive has so many followers in Wellington that one could thoroughly appro ciate Miss Rita Simpson's clever remdering or the part. Miss Jilsie Simpson, who had had to tako her part at short notice, was properly disdainful as tho lady doctor. 'Hie comedietta entitled " Freezing a Mother-in-law," which was given oy a Government House party, was uncommonly clever, and tho acting of the three principals was excellent. As Ferdinand Swift, Dr. izard was convincing, and so was the' Hon. Kathleen Plunket in her part as the mother-in-law who re quired to be frozen, though on two or three occasions she spoke too quickly to be hea/d by those at the back of the hall. Mr. Watorlfield did splendidly as the husband'who has been quelled for twenty years, and who so pitifully and maliciously enjoys ; his Sve minutes of freedom. One player dropped his moustache, and calmly replaced it while the audience watched the operation with interest and the lady-love laughed outright. Tho last

item was the farce, "A Jt'air of Lunatics,.' and in that Miss Elsie Watson and Mr. Elhce Yarnton-Mills did full justice to their opportunities. They were so amazingly and delightfully mad thatthere was a decided sense or flatness when they, disclosed their sane selves. Before the performances and during the intervals lively music was played by an orchestra of Guild members. These were: — First violins, Misses flennah and Russell; second violins, Misses Ward, Dixon, and Jones; cellists, Misses Beauchamp and Montague ; and pianist, Miss Beauchamp. Among the audience were Lady Ward and Mesdames Rhodes, ,T. C. Williams, Fell, Nathan. Buchanan, and Misses Fell, Cooper, Williams, and Nathan. ' .. ; At Johnsonville, on Wednesday afternoon, Mr. J. Moore, fourth son of the,late Mr. John Moore, was married to Miss.-. Florrie Raven, second daughter of the late Sergeant Major Raven. ■ Mr. A. Mooro acted as groomsman, and the Misses A. and E.'Mooro and G. Clapham as bridesmaids. The Rev,. Mr. Rennie performed the ceremony. On Wednesday afternoon Mr. 'James Blackwood, secretary of the Manawatu Cold Storage Company, Palmerston, was married to Miss Elizaboth Archibald, third daughter of the late Mr. James Archibald. The Rev. Mr. Inglis performed the ceremony, which took placo at tho residence of the bride's mother, at Wadestown. The bridesmaids wore tho.Mirses Blackwood (2), L. Rushbrook, and G. Archibald. Mr. A. Odlin acted as best man. • ■

The members of St. Andrew's , Young Women's Bible Class and their friends, gave an entertainment , in the St. Andrew's- Schoolroom last night in aid of the fund for building a new classroom. Recitations were given by Misses Boungardt and Wason, and Master Picot, songs and other items by Misses Bremner and Guthrio, tho Rev> J. Gibson Smith, and Messrs, Jarkes and Reid. Several prettily-arranged tableaux wero also shown. Her Excellency-Lady >Plunket'addressed a mothers' -meeting in the Girls' Glubroom, Constable Street,- yesterday.;afternoon. Yesterday afternoon Mrs. W. A. Evans, M.A., delivered a lecturo on Charles Lamb to the members of the Y.W.C.A. at their rooms, Liimbton Quay. . Miss Sarah Brandon is expected to leave England by tho Omrah on November 29. Miss K.- Holmes left on Wednesday by the Maori for a week's visit to the- south.