MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 August 1925, Page 8

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

NEWS AND NOTES.

Rudolf Valentino, the film actor, and his wife, have agreed to part. His manager said that the separation will be entirely friendly, and there is no prospect of a divorce. Both Mr and Mrs Valentino continue in the pictures, Mrs Valentino as producer, and her husband as star.

Miss May Sinclair, the famous novelist, when in London, generally writes from 9.30 a.m. to 1 p.m., and sometimes continues after luncheon, though she rarely does more than fiv» hours a day. Her favourite home is her little cottage in the Cotswold Hills, where peace and beautiful surroundings, make for inspiration and energy. She is much in physical research and phenomena, though not credulous to the extent that some leading lights of the intellectual world are.

Rachel Cobley, aged 25, single, of Macsycwmmer, Rhymney Valley, having been reported missing ’on Sunday night, search parties were formed. One of these reported that cries had been heard from a disused pitshaft near Byrn. Police laid a beam across the mouth of the. shaft, and an ex-sailor, J. Robinson, descended by a rope 75ft to tire bottom of the shaft. He found the girl there suffering from a fractured skull, bhe was hauled out by means of the rope, but died soon after admission to hospital. How she gof, there is n mystery, as the shaft is fenced in.

More than a thousand women members of 'the Women’s Co-operative Guild met at Cambridge in July for their annual congress. Many matters were dealt with, and the women showed themselves in touch with other feminist organisations', as regards equal 'suffrage, housing" grievances, widows’ pensions, etc. The great idea'of this congress, however, is international cordiality, and therefore there was much pleasure evinced at the messages of goodwill brought from Scotland, Ireland, Capetown, Sydney etc. Even Soviet Russia sent a message, and a good speech was also delivered by Fran Greetz, expressing the same horror of war as animated her British hearers. The chief address seems to have been that given by Miss Margaret Bondfield.

Hungary has a limited female suffrage and even one woman member of the House, Miss Anna Ketley. It is not easy for a Hungarian woman to possess the franchise—she must be over thirty, unless she is a graduate, when the age condition does not hold. She must also have been a Hungarian citizen for more than ten years, and have passed the six classes of elementary instructipn. For men, the intellectual qualifications uip less, nnd the age only twenty-four. If a woman has three or four children, or is a self-supporting householder, she gains this right on the same educational qualifications as men. Women suffragists are agitating for complete equality, and also for admission to the Upper House. At present this House has men members only, these being members of the aristocracy wiio own estates on which they pay taxes of 3000, or more, gold crowns.

Miss Marjorie Daw, who plays Bianca in “Wildflower,” ‘at the Theatre Royal, was found in East Melbourne one morning recently, walking in her .sleep. She was taken to the Richmond police station, where she was cared for until the arrival of a taxi, and then taken home to her flat at East Melbourne. She stated she had been reading a book in bed, and the next thing she remembered was shivering in her nightdress in the street. She was wearing one slipper and was carrying a writing pad. She went to a big hou-fee and knocked at the door, but an old lady who looked out_ of a window told her to walk about until she found a policeman. took her to the police station. The police had to enter her flat by tne window. On the table was a book she had been reading, and her slipper was on the floor.

Jennie Lee, the actress win? made the part of “Jo,” the crossing sweeper, in Dickens’ “Bleak House,” famous throughout the world, is most distressed by a third false report of her death. The report this time is that .she has died in California. She •is nearly seventy years of age, and is living in London in poor circumstances,” and suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. Her husband and daughter recently died, while her son was killed at the war. The first wrong announcement of her death was made when she was in Sydney years ago, and the second in London 'in 1909; The third report was due to the death of an American film actress with a. similar name. Miss Lee whose married name is Burnett, hay, a small pension. She lies in a room meditating on her past.

In America photographic posters have been popular for years, but in England they are only just beginning to be used, so there is plenty of scope for the work, and it is an interesting as well as a employment for women. Even the artist who specialises in poster work does not have to struggle against such a fierce competition as in other fields of art, but the poster photographer steps into a delightfully uncrowded. occupation. The woman who wishes to go in for poster ])ho tography must be an efficient photographer or make herself one. We cannot hope to earn money at anything unless we are more capable at it than most people, and it is the same with photography. Unlike an art education, however, this photographic poster work needs no expensive training nor years of study, lakinr' photographs for posters is a work that should make particular appeal to the woman with imagination, and it allows ample scope for the developing of originality.