SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19405, 13 August 1926, Page 6

SOCIAL NEWS.

I : Miss Marjory Miller, of Hamilton,, has been the guest of Mrs. F- Ward, Mount Koskill. ' y. S'i* Mrs. Alistar Beal leaves by the Ulimaroa to-day, en route to Tasmania, where she will make a short stay, prior to sailing for England with Commodore Beal. _____ * 'Mrs. -W; H. Parkes, with Miss Parkes, is in Wellington to say farewell to her son, Mr. Athol Parkes, who "is. leaving New* Zealand to study medicine in Edinburgh. Miss Mary Foully is the guest of Mrs. Cyril Ward, Chnstchurdih, for Grand National festivities. She will proceed later to 'Mount Cook for the winter sports. V ' ' s .. \ y News liae been received of the marriage of Miss Kathleen Williams and Dr. Roland Raymond, a Rhodes scholar from Sydney. Miss Williams is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Price Williams, and grand-daughter of Mr. William Johnston, who .was the first barrister to settle in Dunedin. Mrs. Price Williams managed the Manchester branch of the New s Zealand Red Cross during the war. After a honeymoon spent in Italy, Dr. nnd Mrs. Raymond intend to settle in Sydney. Seventeen domestic servants arid housekeepers, all employed within the two parishes of St. Andrew, Holborn, and St. Clement Dane, received' certificates and gifts of £l2 provided by the Duckett charity fund, founded by Isaac Duckett in 1620. Those eligible are domestic servants and housekeepers in the two parishes who have' been employed for' s five years with one master or mistress. Among those receiving gifts were two domestic . servahts who had each been in the same situation for 25 years, and one housekeeper who had'been in her place 28 years. Miss Lydia Annesley Vachell, daughter of Mr. Horace Annesley Vachell, the author, who* is abroad, was married to her first cousin; Mr. Arthur Annesley v'aehell, .at St. James* Church, Piccadilly, recently; The Ven. 0. E. Lambert, rector if St. James',- officiated, and the bride was given away by Mr. John Hunter Blair. With a wedding dress of rose pink fchiffon and ; a (large -picture hat trimmed with roses, the bride carried pink carnations, and . her dnly attendant . was Miss Marion Jellicorse, dressed in cham-.pagne-cqloured georgette and lace with a poppy-red hat and bouquet of red roses. Mr. Robin Bushman acted as best man. British women are about to open a vigorous fight to do away with present suffrage laws, which exclude them from the right to vote until they are 30, says a London report. Many prominent men agreed to join a great mass meeting staged by 40 women societies in the interests of equal political rights. Among them were Lord Balfour, Lord Cecil and Mr. Petliick Lawrence, M.P. Under the present suffrage laws in England, 5,000,000 women above the age of 21, but below the age of 30, are unable to vote, while qualified men above the age of 21 have the ballot. All the old-time suffrage leaders and thousands of other prominent women resent' this discrimination. "We are on the eve of a new golden age of the English theatre," declared Miss Clemencc Dane, the author-play-wright, at the Sproptimist Club recently. "Never," said Miss Dane, . "since the time of Elizabeth have things looked so bright." It is almost impossible to discuss the theatre without discussing religion, she added. It is impossible to study history without realising that no nation possessed ;a great theatre at a time when, it was not, in its widest sei^,, a religious nation., Only people, •ith an awakened'religious sense would ■ Hst,en to such plays as Bernard Shaw's "St. John," Galsworthy's "The Skin Game/' Noel Coward's "The Vortex," Barrie's "The Will," Drinkwater's ' 'Abraham Lincoln," ' and many others. Tennis fashions set by the stars of the centre court are faithfully followed by women enthusiasts all over the country. Suzanne's salmon-coloured, silk vest struck a very; happy note this year. She wore it over a very simply-made dress of white marocain and it has been widely copied, says a. writer in an exchange. 'There is also a new tvpe'of tennis shoe, something like a ballet slipper, lacing round the ankle. It is worn with white stockings of the finest lisle arid openwork clocks. The smart bandeau for tennis is made of three or four layers of crossgrain ribbon in many colours—green, crimson and royal blue beiiig a favourite combination. The lower ribbon layer is made to form an eyeshade. Many of the smartest tennis players have given up the familiar onepiece dress and are wearing instead a white silk shirt, a white flannel wrap-over skirt and a strawberry-coloured cardigan or a brilliant looking sweater with coloured stripes running round it.