SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20174, 7 February 1929, Page 5

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. J A. Armstiong, of London, is a guest at, the Grand Hotel.

Airs. Ross Campion has returned to Wanganui from a visit to Auckland.

Mrs. F. Taylor has returned to Christ church from a visit to Auckland.

Mrs. Brodie, of Dannevirkc. is visiting Auckland and is staying at Glenalvon.

Mrs. Claude Crook, of Lower Hutt, :s staying with friends in Point Chevalier.

Mrs. Philip Andreas, of Sydney, is visiting Auckland and is staying at the Grand Hotel.

Mrs. F. Alison, of Waiheke, is visiting Auckland and is staying at the Hotel Cargen.

Mrs. F. M. Hay and Miss Vera Hay returned last week from a visit to Whatipu.

Mrs. A. M. Chapman, of Napier, is visiting Auckland and is staying at the Hotel Cargen.

Mrs. V. Savage and Miss J. Barker, of Gisborne, are on a visit to .Auckland and are guests at the Grand Hotel.

Miss F. Sidells and Miss E. H. Person, of Mastertori, are visitors to Auckland and are staying at the Hotel Cargen.

Mr,, and Mrs. Cecil Day, of Wellington, are leaving early next week for a motor lour in the North Island.

Mr. and Mrs. F. K. Hunt have been spending a few days in Wellington en route for a motor tour in the South Island.

Mrs. Leonard Hunt, of Penrhyn Road, Mount Eden, returned yesterday from an extended visit to Wellington and Christchurch.

Mrs: D. Makgill, of Epsom Avenue, has returned from Orua Bay, where she has been spending the summer holidays with her children.

The Loyal Manurewa Lodge, M.U.1.0. O.F. held their annual picnic on January 29, at Clark's Bay, Waiau Pa. Ideal picnic weather prevailed, and the gathering was well attended by members and friends, who showed by their thorough enjoyment of the day that this year's picnic was a ?ery successful one.

Artificial sunlight an idea, I believe, that originated in New York, are becoming ponular in Paris, states a correspondent .The guests wear artificial silk pyjamas and black glasses. It seems that the pyjamas must be of artificial silk, as this is said to be practically the only material which allows the beneficial violet rays to penetrate to the skin.

Miss Helen Wills, the noted tennis player, whose engagement _ was recently announced by cable, is described as having a very charming, quiet personality. She was the first person to begin the vogue of wearing an eye-shade when playing tennis. Beside being a tennis champion, Miss Wills has also written quite a number of poems, and frequently contributes articles to American and English periodicals.

Miss Frances Maclean, L.T.C.L., of Carterton, who is 18 years of age, has been awarded the gold medal of the Associated Board of the R.A.M. and R.C.M. for the highest marks in New Zealand in the advanced grade pianoforte, and an exhibition tenable for two years at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Miss Macloan, who was trained at the Brigidine Convent, Carterton, sails for England by tho Makura on Tuesday.

While in Wellington Lady Margaret Macßae, of Bute, Scotland, with Major and Miss Mcßae, will be the gnest of the Caledonian Society at an impromptu party. During tho course of her visit to New Zealand Lady Macßae has met many Scottish poople. several of whom she knew in her girlhood days. Several entertainments had been arranged in her honour and she was delighted with the hospitality of the New Zealand people.

Mrs. Annie McVicar, of Wellington, who is leaving for a visit to Great Britain' by the Corinthic, has taken a prominent part in the public life of the city. While she is away she will attend two interesting conferences—the twenty-fifth anniversary conference of the International Alliance of Suffrage, and Equal Citizenship, which is to bo held in Berlin, and the annual conference of the British Commonwealth League, to be held in London early in June.

News to hand in Sydney from Toti Dal Monte and De Muri Lomanto, her tenor husband, states that the singers are in Rome, where they are among the artists for the Royal Opera House. Two of the tenors who were iu Australia with the Melba-WiTliamson Opera Company. Francesco Merli and Angelo Minghetti, have also been engaged. Threo of the conductors include Pietro Mascagni, Gateano Bavagnoli (who was in Sydney with the last company), and Franco Paoloantonia. The latter was in Australia during t,he 1924 season.

Sunburn is as fashionable abroad as it is here in New Zealand, and the smart woman who has not been able to acquire a real coat of tan can repair the deficiency with artificial powders and creams, which give the skin the desired bronzed tint. These cosmetics to simulate sunburn are having quite a large sale in Europe and America, where to be really well sunburnt is to have a claim to smartness. One reason for this desire for brown skin is the great popularity of white for both day and evening wear. The fashion first began because women who had been sun-baking on the Lido or at the Riviera and at other fashionable resorts found that white satin was most becoming to sunburnt skin, and so the craze for white satin evening frocks began. To keep up with it, women who had not been sunburnt were obliged to pretend they were, and this created the demand for creams and powders giving the sunburned effect.