WOMEN’S NOTES

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 127, 2 May 1925, Page 7

WOMEN’S NOTES

Mrs Maughun Barnett, wife of the Auckl&nd ■'city organist, died last week. A hativo of Westmoreland, England, she was the daughter of the Rev. Lewen Tugwell, and spent her earlier years in Spain, her father being British chaplain at Seville. Mrs Barnett is survived by her husband, who is well-known in Wellington,, and her three daughters. Htr Only son-Was killed at Gallipoli landing in 1915.

Gloria Swanson’s £6OO a day contract lifts her to a dizzy altitude above the rest of thi high-salaried film ‘‘stars. - ’ Mr Adolph Zokor, the head o' tho Faftioufl Playors-Lasky Corporation, was declared to be more responsible than any other man for the high salaries in the profession, and began the Competition as far back as 1917 by offering Mary Bickford £IBBO a week, slates an exchange. Ironically enough, it was the Famous Playern-Ltsky Corporation Which less than two yearn ago declared a “lock-out” against tho employment of high-9alaried “stars.” The “stars capitulated by accepting a reduction of £l6O a week each. Now, however, this Corporation has secured Miss Swanson for £SOO a day. Chaplin has obtained as much as £215,000 for a series of eight pictures; Mary Piekford £70.000 each for three pictures; Norma Talm&dge £70,000 each for 12 pictures; Constance Talmadgo £22.000 each for 12 pictures, and Katherine Macdonald, Charles Ray and Anita Stewart £20,000 per picture. The weekly wage of Cohstonce Talmadge, Dorothy Dalton, PaUlihe Frederick, and Larry Setnon is over £IOOO each.

WILLARD CHILDREN’S HOME. The Board of Management of Willard Homo asknowledges with thanks the following gifts for the month of April Mrs Powell, bag of oatmeal; Mrs R. L. Knight (Longburn), butter j Piccadilly Tea Rooms, scones; Mr A. Butzbach, buns and scones; W.C.T.U. social, cakes and sandwiches; Mr McPherson (Foxton). pic melon; Manawatu Tea Rooms, cakes; Mrt Burges, bread; Miss Johes (Featherston street), clothing; Mrs Heath, Vegetables and used postage stamps; Mr Owtram. apples; Mr Harwood, apples; Mrs M. Cohen, quinces and apples; Mrs Wingate (Longburh), apples and pears ; Mr Balsillie, vegetables ; Mr Lockhart, lollies; c6hst&ble Murch, fruit and lollies; St. Peter's harvest festival, jam, tea, cocoa, fruit aild Vegetables; Mrs Paeey, vegetables; Congregational social, cakes and sandwiches; Mr „ Gray, meat; Mahawatu Meat Co., meat and sausages. THE USE OF SILK. MAKING GOODS ATTRACTIVE. LONDON, May 1. During the Budget debate, the Hon. W. E. Guinness, in defending the silk tax, said that silk was mixed with wool and cdttoti merely to increase their attractiveness and was in ho wise economical to the poorer classes. He cited as an example of the superiority of cotten the fact that lodieS preferred that the feet, and the tops of their stockings, to which they hitched their suspenders, should not be made of silk. This Sally Was greeted with cheers and laughter. 'I he Hnn. Guinness scouted the suggestion, that the tax would appreciably affect the industry.—A. and N.Z. cable.