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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1912, Page 9

Miss Elsie Grey is visiting New Plymouth. Mrs. Hope Lewis, of Auckland, is staying with Mrs. Guy Williams, of Masterton. Miss Wilson has returned from Mas* terton, where she has been a guest of Mrs. Baird. Miss Cleghorn is at Alfredtown, staying with Mrs. W. Kebbell. Mrs. W. Cacelberg, who has been at Day's Bay House, has gone back to Masterton. Mts. Roy and Mim Gladys Roy are staying at the Hotel Cecil, on their way to Oamaru. Nurse Sexton is back in Wellington after a holiday in Rotorua. Mre. M'Ewan has* returned to town after some weeks spent at Hefetaunga. Mrs. Butts and Miss C. Butts are at Porirua, the guests of Mrs -M'Dougall. Miss Mestayer, of Sydney-street, who ift busy preparing the " tuck-box " to be sent in February to the Melanesian Islands, would be grateful for contributions useful to the mi««vmarieß ther«. Linen, jam, books, chocolate, and empty 21b tfeacle tins would be thankfully received. Among the many^ artistic mementoes a recent visitor to Englarid has brought back is a picture woven in a hand-loom, the work of a friend. Tho wools with which it is woven were dyed by the artist. The scene represent* a garden ' scene at Bellaggkv one of those fascij nating old-worlcL gardens with stately .steps, flanked by dark stone-pines against a summer sky, and peacocks on smooth stretches of grasri. The toneb are exquisitely blended, and s the whole, covered with glass and framed in oldtime black beading, fo a covetable possession. Mr. J. S. Tennant, inspector of schools, with Mrs. Tennant and Miss Zohrab, who have been on a trip to England and the Continent, are returning to New Zealand by the Manuka, due here to-morrow from Sydney. The ultra-fashionable life of Newport has .found a new silly novelty. It i» called the dinner-dance, and it demands ! a dance between each two courses. PerI haps some very young people might en- | joy the dinner-dance, but it will be I viewed with horror by those of a morw 1 advanced age. Comfort seeme to be exJ eluded altogether from modern ideas ot I pleasure.— Argonaut. A quiet wedding waft eoTemnfsed at the Basilica. Hill-street, yesterday, when Miss Christina Clark, second daughter of Mr. J. T. Clark, of Reefton, was married to Mr. Oswald M. G. Richardson, of H.M. Customs, Wellington, son of Captain <T. M. Richardson. Ihe bride, , who wore a fawn-coloured dress of titesore silk, and a tagel straw hat trimmed with mole and fawn ostrich feathers, was given away by her uncle, Mr. T. Joy, and was attended by Miss Nina Calcini, who was dressed in navy blue, as »bridc6maid. Mr. J. Clark, brother of the bride, acted as best man. The- ceremony was performed by the Roy. Father Hjckson. After the ceremony a recep- ) tion was held at the 'residence of the bridegroom's parents, " Inglewood," Karbri-road, where a very enjoyable afternoon was spent. , The young couple left by the afternoon train for tho North. A good story about Anna Pavlova, the famous dancer, is being told. While in New . York recently, Pavlova wae asked by a wealthy woman if 6he would dance at a private dinner at her house. Pavlova said she would — for £300. "Isn't that rather a lot'/" said the lady. "No," retorted Pavlova; "I couldn't do it for lecfi." "Come," said the other, "make it £250, do!", "No," said Pavlovo, firmly. "No, my price is £300." "Very well, then, so be it." And the lady with a resigned air, rose and drew her sablee about hex. But at the door she turned and said, "Of couise, you know, I shan't expect you to mingle with my guests." "Oh, in that 'case,' 'said Pavlovo, with a smile, "I'll gladly let you off the £50." When he return* to New York, after his honeymoon, Mr. Alfred G. Vanderbilt, the American millionaire (who was recently marriedto Mrs. Margaret Emerson M'Kim), will escort his wife to a unique home situated on the top floor of a magnificent new " ekyecraper " hotel bearing nis own name arid designed on a 6cale of magnificence equalling, if not excelling, the hcetelries of the metropolis. str. and Mrs. Vanderbilt'fi flat enjoys the distinction of being the costliest in New York. It contains a dining hall rising to a height of two stories and a splendid suite of reception roome and bedrooms. The rental value of .the flat is £8000 a year, and tho occupants enjoy all the resources of a firstclass hotel. According to the Copenhagen correspondent of .the London Telegraph, a party of actors and actresses, whife preparing to enact a thrilling drama for the benefit of the spectators at cinematograph shows, have had a remarkably narrow escape from being the unwilling victims of a tragedy in real life. They had hired a steamer at Lemvig and had arranged to have a fictitious shipwreck, in the courtfe of which their vessel was to be stranded and they were to be heroically rescued after confronting apparently unparalleled dangers and suffering. Muoh to their alarm, however, they were forestalled by reality. They had been cruising*'"' about for a couple of hours, during vwhich time the cinematograph operator had been taking pictures of the usual incidents of life on theocear waves, when the forces of mature thought it was time to give them a taste of the real thing. And the real thing^provecl to be no joke. A tremendous storm arose, and for ten hours the steamei drifted about at tho mercy of the win<3 and waves! The gallant ship Was upoi the point of foundering in reality, whei help arrived in the shape of a boal from Lemvig, where the fishermen hac grown anxious at the failure of the steamer to return to port. The acton and actresses were (adds the correspon dent) rescued in the nick of time, anc fifteen minutes later tho steamer sank. Who are tne great authorities ot fashion? I refer to individuals. Wort! appears to have become a memory, anc Paquin has been outrivalled by th( wonderful Paul Poiret. He was th< "harem" designer, but thought it failet it did not destroy him. Unle» we tata "Lucille," there is Mo English de&ignei in the same Tank with the French, n< American designer, no Austrian (write "Margue/ite" in the Western Mail) Perhaps the best known of all designer) in Paris is Mathilde See, who is a fa miliar figure to first-nighters at the thea tres. Gowned in th» choicest of hei own wonderful creations, she selects witl unerring eye) fvon\ stage or audience I any hin& which may be of üb§ to he£-