MANIFOLD INTERESTS

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 186, 4 May 1933, Page 5

MANIFOLD INTERESTS

Offered Russian Post DAUGHTER OF KNIGHT Dominion Special Service. (By Mavis.) London, Feb. 11. A lull. dark, vivacious girl whose father is a knight is working hard in her spare time to learn Russian, for she wants to go to Russia, where she will take up public health work and find out. how health services are run under Soviet rule. This energetic young woman is Miss Pamela Redmayne, daughter of Sir Richard Redmayne. who was formerly lI.M. Chief Inspector of Mines. She is also studying the English public health service, running a library for the’patients at St. Thomas's Hospital, and arranging a dance. j She says she is getting up this dance "because I don't want to get too serious looking, so in between all this (her other work) I throw myself into the gay life of my young friends.” Miss Redmayne started the library at St. Thomas's four years ago, and last year patients read 18,000 books. "Their taste,” she says, "ranges from Ruby M. Ayres to Chaucer. I had one patient, who said the only books she liked were those which had a kiss on the last page!” It will not be Miss Redmayne's first visit to Russia. "I went there recently with friends,” she explains, "and during my stay I was very interested in their public health work. When I was leaving they told me that if I cared to go back they would give me a job as a public health worker, and I accepted their offer. "At the moment. I think Russia is the most interesting country in the world to live in. All the experiments being made there are so fascinating, and everyone, taking part in them is so alive. Every other country seems dead after a visit to Russia.” Miss Redmayne observed the working of the Russian marriage laws, and she says it is now possible to get married or divorced in about five minutes there. “I don’t think,” she says, "that an arrangement of this kind would suit the people in this country, though it certainly seems to suit, the racial characteristics of the Russian type of mind.”