SOCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20257, 17 May 1929, Page 7

SOCIAL NEWS.

Mrs. T. Avenill, of Sydney, is staying at the Grand Hotel.

Mrs. Dorothy Mille, of Sydney, is visiting Auckland-and is staying at the Grand Hotel.

Mrs. Nelson Banks, of Matamata, is visiting Auckland and is staying at the Star Hotel.

Miss D. Molan, of Auckland, who has been staying at Kakatahi, has left for Wellington.

Mrs. Blake and Miss Blake, of Wellington, motored to Auckland and are stay ing at Arundel.

Mrs. H. J. Davies, of Meadow Bank, Onehunga, has left on a visit to Taranaki and the Waikato.

Mrs. Rhodes, of Clonbern Road, Remuera, is spending tho holidays with her grandsons in Rotorua.

Mrs. Littlejohn, of Banada, New South Wales, is visiting Auckland and is staying at the Grand Hotel.

Mrs. C. T. Purcell, of Palmerston North, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. J. E.. Terry, of Auckland.

Mrs. L. T. Rapson, of Gillies Avenue, Epsom, returned this week from a visit to Durie Hill", Wanganui.

Mrs. Fox and Miss Fox, of Sydney, are on a visit to Auckland and are staying at the Grand Hotel.

Old cut-glass has come into its own again with polished tables, so _ has old china; nothing looks more beautiful than a fine Worcester or Crown Derby service with all its dishes laid out as the sole table decoration

I am told of a new dance of British origin which is a combination of the waltz and Blues, states a London writer. The double turn is prominent, while the "twinkle" is executed with the man going backwards. It is said to be a graceful dance and easily grasped. The name—l nearly forgot is the staltz.

A woman who occupies a distinguished and unique position among the most eminent composers of our day, says /in English paper, is Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, Mus. Doc., who has written several fine operas which have been performed in Germany and in England with great success. Dr. Ethel Smyth ; s also a keen feminist and was a prominent militant supporter of the Woman Suffrage campaign, composing some of the suffrage music heard at that time.

A literary woman of surprisingly diversified gifts is the Hon. V. Sackville-West, says an English paper. Besides earning fame as a novelist, she added to her laurels as a poet last year by carrying off the Hawthornden Prize with her poem "The Land." Although Miss Sack-ville-West has the inspiring personality that so frequently accompanies a love of adventure and a keen sense of humour, she has also the rare gift of enjoying solitude and is a firm believer in quietude and in the gentle art of meditation for the revivifying of the creative artist.