WOMEN’S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 123, 24 April 1936, Page 13

WOMEN’S WORLD

Miss Eileen Goodwin, of Palmerston North, is the guest of her sister, Mrs Cliye Coleman, of Auckland. Mr and Mrs George Haggitt, formerly of Palmerston North, are visiting Wanganui. The friends of Mrs F. W. Aisher, of Grey Street, will, regret to learn that she is very seriously ill in the Hospital. Her condition is causing concern to her relatives. The friends of Mrs J. H. Bennett, of Kauwhata,. will be pleased to learn that she returned to her home this week after spending several weeks in a private hospital in Palmerston North as the lesult of an accident.

Mrs J. Aiken, of 7 Amesbury Street, has had as her guest Dr. Minnie Varley, of Nelson, president of the Christian Endeavour Movement in New Zealand. Dr. Varley left for Wellington this morning. The engagement is announced of Joyce Louise, third, daughter of Mr and Mrs A. E. Burrell, Ferguson Street East, Palmerston North, and Joseph Francis, second son of Mr and Mrs F. J. Bourke, “Tirimoana,” St. John’s Hill, Wanganui. Mrs J. B. Walker, who won the New Zealand golf championship la6t year, is one of the sixteen women players invited to take part in the British Curtis Cup trial this year to decide the team that will meet America in the Curtis Cup in May. It was decided, at the annual council meeting of the North Wellington Federation of Women’s Institutes, yesterday, that Miss M. Grant (president) should attend the triennial conference of the Associated Countrywomen of the World at Washington as a delegate. Miss Grant will leave Palmerston North shortly.

AVhen the King, then Prince of Wales, visited Australia, . one of his dancing partners in Sydney was Miss Molly Little, now Mrs Roy Chisholm, and her son, David- Anthony Chisholm, is the only Australian godchild of Edward VIIL His silver mug is inscribed from his Royal godfather. Miss Rosalind Atkinson, the New Zealand actress, has made another success in Neil Grant’s play, “Dusty Ermine,” which has just been put on at the Comedy Theatre after a trial trip some months ago at the Arts Theatre, London. Miss Atkinson repeats her astonishing performance as the Life Force in forbidding disguise and is to be congratulated upon this dry-point study of in officious woman married into an unprecedented family. The Sunday Times says she '•‘played with breath-taking realism.”

A son was born on February 25 to Countess Court Haugritz Reventlow, formerly Miss Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth heiress. It is perhaps not generally known tlitat Count Court Haugwitz Reventlow belongs to -an old Danish family, and his estate at Rosenlund, in Denmark, includes a modern farm and a sugar factory. A descendant ryf ',a brother of Queen Adelaide, of England, his family is the onlv one in Denmark the members of which are allowed to wear a prince’s crown—a privilege granted by Royal decree in 1815.

(By “Nanette.”)