Famous Swedish Actress To Direct Theatre
FIRST WOMAN APPOINTED Three women of different nationalities have received appointments recently which, in each case, is the first to be conferred upon a woman. From Sweden coines news of tho appointment of Miss Pauline Brunius, a famous Swedish actress, as director of the State (subsidised National Theatre in Stockholm, the most important theatre in (Sweden. Miss Brunius is the first woman to fill such a post. Then there is Madame Marie Gevers, a distinguished poet and writer of Belgium, who has been appointed a member of tho Belgian Academy. She is the first woman to receive this honour from tho academy, which is a very exclusive body. Finally there is the appointment of Miss Margaret Longhurst as keeper of the department of agriculture and Museum in London. She is the first woman to become keeper of any department in any of the national sculpture at the Victoria and Albert museums in Great Britain.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 41, 18 February 1939, Page 15
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