Social Gossip. Social Gossip. Social Gossip. Boxing Entertainment in Town Hall.

Free Lance, Volume X, Issue 477, 21 August 1909, Page 14

Social Gossip.

Social Gossip.

Social Gossip.

Boxing Entertainment in Town Hall.

By Christabel.

OUR season of winter gaiety in the form of dances seemed to have reached its climax toward® the end of Jullv with the Garrison Officers Ball the Race Bal, and the 'Varsity Ball. What a tot of moaiey it must have put into circulation you may imagine fiom an observation made to me by a leading caterer. He said "For one week in July our extra catering amounted to £400.'' How much moVe went to the dressmakers foi foocks P Well, there's a fine bioad new open for conjecture • * People shopping near the TeA.ro end of the town should patronise the loinn tea rooms, which have recently been opened in Winder's Budding They make a delightful restang place » for^ the weary shopper or worker, and the most delectable httle lunches and suppers are served. A party of us wont an after witnessing Nelie's Stewart s play tihe other night, and were regaled with hot buttered toast and most delicious oatfee The rooms, too, are so fresh and clean, and the cream paper and smairt waitresses, in their bke Imen frocks, are restful to the eye. m • • On Thursday week the members of St. Thomas's CJmb, Newtown broke forth with a danoe. Every ctab of every kind gives a diance now-a-days during the year, so, of course, that ot St Thomas's could not be an exoepfaom It 'was a very jolly little affair, and deserved much better patToniage than it received. Anyway, those present wouflld be able to -rouse tine envy o± those blase ones who stopped away by describing what a good time they (the absent ones) had missed. • • • The hw.ll looked very pretty, with blue and white strands of twisted nrus]in lyoopodium, and camellias, the great Fleming played his best music, and the supper was excellent, ihe decorations here had' been left in the hmands of a ladies' committee, ooneisting of Misses Ritchie, Mairsden, Suckling and Varnhain, who had made the supper-room look something exceptional. Strands of ivy intermingled with pink and white camellias were stretched across it, hoops of blue and white violets hung from itlhe dhandeflners, more violets rested, in maoses on the table, from which sprung long-stemmed vases filled with STwing flowere, and the whole finished with loops of narrow blue and whiite ribbon. Bluo and' white (the club coTburs) rosettes were woirii by the committee: Messrc R. Ritchie, S. Varnham, J. K. Lee G-. McOaul, E. Maisden, and P. Moorhouse (secretary). The chaperones were- Mesdlames J. Varnlham, who wore black sulk and pmk roses, W. H. P. Barber, la itawn chiffon taffetas, with a deep <red cloak, and Mrs. Perry, in grey. Mips Ritchie wore white musMn, and laoa, with narrow blue ribbons threaded thirottgh tihe belt. Miss Vairnham woTe a dainty white muslin frock. Miss Mausden was in pink sfflk. Miss Sucikltog allso wore pink crepe-de-chiae, with nanrow black velvet ribbon; Mrs. Jeffrey, pate pinik ciharmeuse, and ired roses; Miss Bright/well, a pretty bltue satinMiss Wood, cream ninon, with red' roses on corsag© and hair* Miss Morris, pink; Miss Maunder, turquoise Vue; Miss Souter, white salt; Miss Sutcldffe. palfe rnnk silfe, Miss Montgomery, deep red velvet, with sleeves and 1 tucker of chiffon to match. • • • The marriage of Miss Evelyn Frances Mason to Mr. H. Clifford Roberts takes place at the Ooms<table-street Congregational Church, on September Ist. • * • Mrs. E. Izard and Mrs. (Dr.) Anderson, of Nelfeon, have been spending the past few days in Wellington, staying at the Royal Oak. • • • The wedding of Miss OMDds to Mr. P. H. Scantiebury, Hate of Findlay and DalzrieFs, takes place at St. Paul's PTO-Cftthediral, on September Ist. Anyone privileged to attend' tihe little ceremony at the HiiLLstreet Convent Chapel last Sunday afternoon was given a great treat in the singing of some of the nuns and their pupils. It was music such as is seMom heard even at the very best of concerts. Four novices took the veil, and the church, was packed to its most elastic capacity

with, their friends Af tea-wards, the bridal repast was pairtaken at in the dining-room downstairs, a.nd everyone partook of wwie and wedding-cake Even the amateur actor and actress has to work very haoxl. "Nibbe" v being rehearsed with, great enithiusiasn and so is the small' cua-tain-raiser which is to precede it. This shoaiM be _ a great draw, andi, instead) of "playing the audience in" a® so many curtainrraisers do, everybody should be in their seats to time in order mot to miss it. The plot lis a clever skit upo Mies' clubs in general, and, although called "The Suffragettes? GUulb," does not deal with tihe suffragette in particular. Indeed, tiheire are all kinds of girls 'in this partiouillar clvb — l&zy gitrds, Aimpraca.n girte, serious giirils, musical girds, girls who are girls no Monger, widows, etc., not to (mention Miss Blunderby, the austere president, a.ndi when all these different kindls of girl fall in 3io<ve with the same young manbut, let us wait for the denouement till the 30th, when we are alfl) goimg to see "Niobe." « • • Miss Marjorie Cliard, who in private life ds Mr®. Langhorne Burton, ie one of the prettiest members of the JNellie Stewart Company. Much prettier off the stage than, on, indeed/. She is possessed of a good figure a dhanminig 'personality and flioveTy dark hair, wMoh she wears in a demure "Beto of New York" style, and which suits her infinitely better than the fair wig she dons on the stage. • • • "Sweet Kitty Beilllairs 3 ' haa_ been dfl-awuig houses all of which testify to the deserved 1 popularity of Nelie Stewart. The play _ itself as slight. and most of its drawing capacity is in the scenery and dressing. These are truly gorgeous, and the red coats of the men show up binayely among the lighter colours of the [Ladies' frocks. In the 'ballnToom scene these are especially resplendent. There us a charming blue one looped over a blue satin petticoat, with pink ribbons a.nd roses and much sparkle about it. Mass Chard't frock in this act is also chatrminig — the rose-patterned polonaise looped! back to show a white satin petticoat with rosecoloured ribbons everywhere, anld i-ose-coloured shoes. Miss Vane's dress in this act is aJlso particularly charming, over a pink satin underskirt, flounced with lace, being worn a polonaise of pink, brocaded with roses m palest blue, and a long white feather in her hair. Miss Stewarts dress ul this sceme, of goM brocade, is less fascinating than tibe blue and pink flowered one in which she makes her first appearance, or the even more charming one worm in the second act, of white and heliotrope. It is, perhaps, as a relSjef frottn slo tnucjh glitter and colour, that Uie grey velvet Directoire gown makes sumch an appeal to one, though it is quite out of the period. And why Lady Babs, as an ex-belle, sihouildi wear the most unbecoming of gowns is a mystery. ♦ • • Amongst the audience at "Sweet Kitty BeiLairs" on Tuesday night were : 'Mr. and Mrs. Walter Johnstone, Mr. and Mrs. Holmes and Miss Holmes,

Mr. and Mrs. Hal', Mr. and Mis. O. B. RusseJiL, 'Mr. and Mrs. Momnaih (Paimerstoai Nortih), Mr. <and Mis Skerrett, Mrs. and Miiss EOdfer, Mr. and Mms. Focke, Mr. and Mrs. H- Rawson, Miss Reuwsoui, Mr. and Mts. J. BhwwJeM), Mir. and tlhe Misses Maein'bosih, Mrs. FuHvom, ■\n6i Mrs. Lawson. (Continued on page 15.)

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The Wellington CN cling Okib ga\o their annual ball m Sydney-street schoolroom last Fnda\ night The liall wais lmn,g w itli flag-, and there weie many /laige photographs and (trophies rounid the wadls while the requisite bit of local colon 1 \ias supplied by a bicycle, suspended above the stage, decoiatod with mauve and lifliack nbbon«, the c odours of the eihib. » • • The suppei-iooan looked specraMy effective, b 'ing hung with many small flags, bunting with a ga^ fringe ooveiing the walls, valfow and white oim the tables the übiquitous jonquil 1 and narcusisi, of oouise, being welfll to the fore, with kirke siJver candelebra with Yellow shades. It is difficult now-a-days to iritrodure anything new into a dance, but a shadow waiitz was a liable attempt at ori|ginal£ty The gas wat tumrd riflib, «i<nd cofloured Tights weie thirown on the dancers, the effect bennig very pretty fiiom the sightseers' point of view, but from the dancers themselves net qujte so successful. • • • Mrs Doyle, as a chaperon©, was gowned in black silk Mrs Hay ward was m brLgJit yefflow satm,, with a cream lace over^dress anid peari. passementerie Miss TwoihJH wias in paJe blue silk, with touches of gofld, and her sister was wearing shell pink chiffon. Miss Dixon was m lemon-coloure'cl silk ; Miss Biirns. paJe green, with wihit-e iaoe: Miss Morgan, cream satin. Also present were • Misses Bedford, Pirie, Morgan, Walkeley, DuJff, Haw' thorne, Duignan (2) MoWiUl'iams, Gentiles, Dixon,, Sanderiland) and Me Ewan, and Mess.rs. Harw ard WiJHiis, Young, Leavers, Latinenson, McKenzie, Bush, and Beilil • •* » The St. John Ambulliance. Nursing Guild held 1 a meeting tuiider the auspices of the Mayoress' last Friday, to discuss plans for a monster bazaar, to be hefld m November. Eve.ryone atLending the meetimg was gathered m to help, and formed wißy-niUjy into a oommittee, while Mrs Firth found heiself appointed a secretary before she could even protest. If the various stakeholders are as good aft raking in funds as the conveners of that meeting were at raking them in, tihe GuiHd should do well • * Mre. Rhodes is, as usual, going to take a large part in helping, and othecr Oadies who will! assist with sta3fe besudes the Mayoress (Mrs. Newman) are Mesdames Cotrngan, Luke, Etherington, Winder, Sutcliffe Tripe, Pearce, T T. Macarthy. Reid, FirtTi, PaTlock, Salmon W.' Campbel 1, FeOl. W Hi^lop, Kame, Fisher, Grey and Platts-'Millis. • • • Miss Muriel M. Vaie was responsible for a chajming entertainiment which took place last Friday in St. Mark's schoolroom It took the form of an. operetta by Maxirice Johnson, entitled, "The Magic Cup " 'Mr. C Etienne acted as stage manager, and the wholle performance was a great credit to all concerned. Parts wene played bv the Misses Vare, Mi«s E HaskeEH, Mr. W F. Thompson Miss Francis, Mr. J Rogan, and Mr L C Barnes, who, in professional language, "doubled" the parts of "astrologer" and "chief agitator."

Mitss Gioenfiekl who has oruly been back about a ioitinght fi'om a tirp to the Smith Soa. Islands and Sydney, bbaits off again for the latter place today en loute foi Japan. The Wellington Engineers, No. o Company gave iliear sixth annual ball ,n the DiiiicLs' Haiti, Tararuakustieet. last Fuday night, when aboxit two huncliid people were piesent, making dancing a vi-n crowded affan. The committee h,ad contemplated taking the Town HaJiL far the occasion but had final'i,}- decided- to leave that untiil next year, when the masric mimbei seven would be reached m the hist of dances. The haH'on Fiiday was gaily ddcoiated with flags s'hing acio^s the coiling and round the wallls, while long; mnroTs were placed at intervals There weie cih.ai<-:> all round fon sittimg-out, and the stag© was cnmfoi-fca.bly oai-i>et-ed and fin mushed. Suppei was served m a room downstairs. The members of the committee w ere • Lieuts. Gibbs and Chappie, Sergts. Ba.rker, O'NeiJll a,nd Wrighti, Corporallis Ohnstfceniseai and Ma rib root. Sappers Bates and Carter, and. the Miwes Noon. O'Neill, and Ohnisteiwen The sfs C were Messrs O'NeilH, Eliott, Carter and Gapes, and Mr. Ch/ristensen was a most enersretic swretarr. The dance opened with a march, which presented a very ?;av appearance, the light dresses of +hp ladie-s fhroTvn up br the many red ocats in tlie ix>O'm. Miss O'NeiilJ wore a pretty pink silk dress Mii^s Noctl was in blue satin with folded bodice and 1 creajn chiffon vest. Miss Chri'stenisen -wore pink ntimon, triimmed with la-ce and touches of silver. Miss Gibbs chose white Lofiiisienne, with a silver spangfled soarf- Mi^s Oa.sey, blue- Mis.s Keatiuie. aTso in Hue with whitfce Dace; Miss Jolks, whit-e, with stiver sequinned tiimminig Mrs" Booiier was afeo in white- Mi.ss Cunam, a soft belio(troi>e silk, with lace trimming: Miss HudsoiTii pinJv silk with squaire-cut onilllarottp of sidver spangled lace finished with tassels.

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On Wednesday last, at St. Paul's pro-Cathedral. Miss Mary Park MacGoun, eldest daughter rl the date Mr. and Mrs. Robert Paik MacGoun v> is quietly married to Mr Ronald Allan Douglas. The bride was given away by her brother. and wore a simple wedding-gown of cream sdiLk vole, over gjLaoe, with yoke and sieves of tucked net, and trimming of buttons, and a gold girdle. Her Jiat was a bee-hive shape, in coarse white straw, trimmed with a panadhe of ospreys. * • Her sisteT, 'Miss Ray MacGoun, attended her as bridesmaid, wearing a princess robe of fine emibtroidered muslin, over silk trimmed with buttons of purple velvet, and a hat of violet straw. She carried a bouquet of violets, cyclamen, and freezias. Mr. Hamilton Douglllas, of Levin, supported the bridegroom. • • * The wedding luncheon was held _ at tihe Royal Oak, on'y the immediate friends and relations of the principals being present. Mr. and Mrs. Booth, of Carterton, acted as host and hostess. Mrs-. Booth wore pine-apple silk, handsomely embroidered!, and hat trimmed with red barnes. Mrs. W. St. George Douglas (mother of the bridegroom) wore brown silk, with hat to match The bride's travelling dress was of deep rose serge, smartly cut and braided and a hat o| tegaJi straw, tinmrned with black berries and wings. • • • ]\ The postponed opening of iihe Hotel Bristol! annexe came off on Tuesday night, and proved a very enjoyable function. The annexe is large and airy, and contains about thirty bedrooms, as well as sitting-rooms, a cardroom, a billiard-irooim, and a roof garden. The hotel was decorated with coloured flags and palms, and the bjJihaird-room, where the walls were blue, was hung with blue and # yellow znusMn. Supper was served in the dining-room, on a number of small tables, decorated with spring Rowers. About two hundred guests were present, and passed a very enjoyable evening with music and datficiing. * • • On Wednesday the Council of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts was "At Hoane" in the Art Gallery, Whitmore-sfcreett, in honour of Mr. and 1 "Mrs. Eastlake and Mr. and Mrs. Oltouston, who are visiting New Zealand. Mr. Wa-rdel (the president) was unable to be present, but Messrs. L. H. B. Wi3ison and Gore (vice-presi-dents) welcomed! the iguesbs, and other members of the Council present were: Miss D. K. Richmond, Miss S. Johnson, Dr. Fell, Mr. Joynt, Mr. C. Wilson, Mr. HajniiDton, and Mr. Hastings (secretary). Mrs. Fell, Mrs. Banraud, and Miss Wardell acted as hostesses, Mrs. Fell wearing black silk, with vest and sleeves of cream net, and black plumed hat; Mrs. Barraud, in a long seal coat with a dark skirt, andi small black and white hat: Miss Wardel, in a dark green gown, made en Directoiire, with tiny yoke of cream laoe, and a rose

and black hat. Mi& Eastlake, who came with hei hi otHieu , Dr Bell, looked ext.iemely wed] in dull mole coloui , with hat wieathed with, tiny pink iro&es Mrs. Cfcmston woie a long fawn ooat, and a black tat. The floor space of the Academy was carpeted and furnished with, cihains here and there Palms f i om Goyernimeirb house wecre used as decoiations, and afternoon tea was set out on several' tables, longstemimed daffodisls being used as decorations, with, freezias and tiails of smiJax. Among the <peoiple present were Di . and Mis. Findlay, Br. Foil, the Misses Foil, Mrs. and the 'Misses 1 Beamdhamp, Miss England, Mis. Field, Mirs and Miss Rathbone, Mr. and 'Mrs. ClifFordl Godson, Mir. J. B. - Haroourt, Mrs Stott, Mira. and Miss Hamilton, 'Miss Burnett, Mrs. Baioombe Brown, Mr Baeyertz, 'Mr. .and) Mrs Seaton, Miss Rjidhardison, Miss Camip>be r li]l, Mrs. Marohbants, Miss KeUy, 'Mrs. Sievwrdght, Mr. and Msrs. J. Campbell, Mrs. Head, Dr and and Mrs. Webster, Colonel Bauchop, Dr. Agnes Bennett, Mrs. Coleridge, and Miss Bendall 1 .

The bachelors of Toreador House, Clifton Terrace, are giving a dance on the 3rd iseptembor, and their invitation cards a>re the neatest and quaintest conceit in that line I have seen for many a -long day. The invitation is m verse, headed by a rampant bull and a toreador tossed' in mid-air, and down tlhe sides other vignettes are let in. The veise? Oh, yes, here it is- — Come if you will on the 3rd of September To the 20th house on the Chftonr road, When the moon rises red like a gieat glowing ember That once in, the fires of the sun has glowed. At half-past eight there'll be ,musio and dancing To waken from slumber the drowsy stars, So come in your oairiages, steeds aprancing, And come in your swift^runming motor-cars, And tell of your coming in message to me, At Toreador House, E. L. Chaff ey. * • • Mrs. F. M. B. Fisher has returned from Christchurch. • • • Invitations are out for two dances on Wednesday night next, one being giveni by Mrs. Peaa-ce, and tlhe other by Mrs. Beauchamp. * » • Mrs. Jack Duthie is entertaining the Kelburne Ladies' Bridge Club tonight (Friday), at a bridge party. • • • An "At Home" was guven by Mrs. R Keene, of Island Bay, on Wednesday afternoon, in connection with the Women's. Christian Temperance Union, when about thirty memberß of the Society were present. Addresses were given by Mrs. J. Wiffiams, Mrs. McAllnster, Mrs. Mulier, and 'Mass Mason. Songs were rendered by Mrs. Harper, Mrs. Richardson, Mrs. Clark, and Mrs. Spring, and Miss Shearer recited Arrangements weire made for the re^ oeption of Mr. Leu Stevenson, who is to arrive in Wellington on September 4th, and wiho fa to lecture on "Temper-

ance.' 1 Ota Wednesday, September Bth, Mji& Kecme gives a garden party in hei honour. • - LaM Saturday a pleasant afternoon tea was given by Miss Hall, when music and competitions entertained! the guests of the latter. Mirs. Wett- nhail and Muss Agnes Fleming were the winners. Amoinsg .tihe guests were Mrs 'Marchant and 1 tlhe Misses Chisholm, FUmx, lieppaTd, Dixon, Bairy, Damson, Budhanan,, Warbujrton, Zohiab, HaJse, Simpsom, Wilton, RicJiardson , and Maudisley. Miss HaiE wore a pa3)e blue sii]ik dress, and her satster wi pale green, with liaoe vest and sleeves. * • w Mrs. F. WaJdegrave has returned to Wellington Mrs Hartry Atkinson (hor daughter) is at present staying with hei at the Hotel Cecil * » w Miss Rachel 1 Richmoaad went_ North by Friday last's express, and is now staving with hei" siisitter-im-law, Mirs. Howaid Richmond, in Auckland. * * * Miss Kelly, of KeDburne, is giving a "Lmen Tea" in honouir of 'Miss F. NiohoW, on Saturday afternoon.

The long-looked-foi meeting between TTnholz and Tim Tia-cey was witnessed! on Wednesday night by one of the largest audiences ever seen am tine big Town Hall. The chooir seats wore filled with gemtltemen irepresantiing pol tics, law, medicine;, commerce, and municipal government. Among those present were Councillors Luke, Shurtchffe, Fiost, Fletcher, and the Town Clerk, and a number of members- of Parliament. • • • Tracy was out-generalled and. ■outclassed. He was like a fish out of water, and couldn't make 'head or tail of the Africander's close-up tactics, and his variety of quick and novel hits. The flashy but effective loop-the-dloop hit, which all were anxious to see, proved an eye-opener in more senses than, one, and, combined with right swinging blows to the kidneys, caused' Tiacy considerable trouble. Probably few men m New Zealand would have done any better than Tracy, but, nevertheless, the exhibition given by TJnholz was marred by tihe inability of his opponent to extend him in any degree. It didn't need Dr. Napier McLeans fiat at the end of the fifteenth round to let the audience know who had won. There were two preliminaries by pupils of the Wellington Physical Training Srbrol, Lewis boxing GoodeT (no decision being given), and Hutton winning from young Ronaldsoni. Murphy (, Wellington) beat Morris (Manawatu), but didn't disgrace him, the lat. te>r taking his gruel' like a hero. Shields, of Levin, made things Oiyely for Coward, of the city, and gave a realty clever display of two-handed 1 boxing and neat foot and head-work, and won on points. • • • There was quite a formidable array of pugilistic talent at the ring-side, chief amongst whom were Arthur

Onipps and Bob Turner, of Sydney. Dr. N&piei McLean (referee), Mr. Coffey (■die s-ecietary), and the committee of • management deserve great praise for the Mghly correct way >vi wihicli the programme was arranged and carried! out. Many of the spectator went to the exhibition with a decided l bias against tJhese boxing exhibitions, and several of them have expressed themselyes quite satisfied 1 that tlhere was noth n_g to find fault with on Wednesday night. The excitement of the i eoent Skating Rink carnival has not diedi dowoi before preparations axe under way foT another similar event. Booisiness is fairly humming up at Ingesfcre-street, and every night finds the Rink crowded. The next carnival is billed to come off next Wedinesday evening, and occasion will be taken to present the prizes wota at last week's big event. Tenders are invited elsewihere by -the G.P.O. for the Mand mail-services of the Wellington district and the Marlborough Sounds for the next tflnree years. Full details axe set fortUi in the advertisement. Messrs. A. D. Kennedy and Co., Ltd., intimate elsewhere that tihey have moved into their handsome new premises in Featherston-street.