PERSONAL AND SOCIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19465, 28 April 1925, Page 5

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL.

The Hon. Mrs Guy Stopford loft Dunedin yesterday for the north. * * * Miss Ethel Osborn will arrive to-day, and will stay at the Oban Hotel while she is in Dunedin. # ♦ • Mrs R. S. Orbeil, of Oamaru, is the guest of Mrs N. S. Orbeil, Queen street. • • * Miss J. Haggitt, of Invercargill, is the guest of Mrs B. C. Haggitt, George street. Mrs Ivo Carr, of Invercargill, is the guest of Mrs Geoffrey Henderson, of Mornington. • • • Miss B. Cotterill, of Christchurch, and Miss Cato, of Napier, are the guests of Mr C. W. Rattray, Musselburgh Rise. « * * Miss White-Parsons, of Christchurch, is staying with Mrs J. A. Cook, Union street. » • * Mrs and Miss Bristed, of Christchurch, are visiting Dunedin for the Otago ladies’ golf championship, and are the guests of Mrs H. Dodgshun, Maori Hill. Mrs Martin, of Christchurch, is visiting Mrs E. J. P. Denny, St. Clair. * * * Mrs Rattray, of Christchurch, is the guest of Mrs B. C. Haggitt, George street. » * * Miss Gifford, of Wyndbam, is paying a visit to Mrs A. G. Williams, Anderson’s Bay. - J \ * » • Miss Todd, who was staytbg with Mrs Howie, Maori Hill, returned on Friday last to her home in Gore. • * * The Misses Parker are at present on a visit to their brother, the Rev. F. J. Parker, of Waipawa, Hawke’s Bay. • « • Miss Edna Thomas will be entertained on Thursday morning by the Music Circle of the Otago Women’s Club, club members are invited to be present. • • • Among the Invercargill ladies who are visiting Dunedin for the golf championships axe Mesdames C, Jones, Hall-Jones, Handyside, and Pottinger and Miss Pilcher, all of whom are staying at Wain’s Hotel. * * * The engagement is announced of Miss Georgie Litchfield, younger daughter of Mr and Mrs A. Litchfield, of Herne Bay, Auckland, to Mr David W. Faigan, of Mount Albert, Auckland, late of Miller’s Flat and Dunedin. * * * A doable wedding will take place to-day at Kamo, when the marriage of Miss Phyllis Coates to Mr Briscoe Moore, and of Miss Molly Coates to Mr J. Morrison, will be solemnised. Mr and Mrs Coates will hold a reception • afterwards at the residence of Mr Harry Worsp, Whangaroi. • * * Prior to her departure for Wellington, Mrs M. Hansbury gave an afternoon tea party to a few friends in Tudor Hall. Amongst the guests present were Mesdames A Kennedy. A. Goughian, and _M. McCarthy (West Coast), and Misses Eileen Kennedy and Moira Goughian. • • • A party of girls, comprising Misses Stevenson (Scotland), Gillespie (Lake Camp), Elliott (Mount Burke), Grey (Maungawera), Whitefield (Pembroke), Urquhart (Timam Creek), and Harvie, Kane, and Spear (Hawoa), spent Easter at “The Dingle,” 21 miles up the eastern shore of Lake Hawea. They enjoyed an ideal camping holiday. • « • Mrs Leslie Mills gave a morning tea party for Miss Edith Haggitt, when the guests were Mesdames Rattray (Christchurch) and J- Eim and Misses Haggitt, Colvin, Surgood, Stock, Allan (2), Callaway, and Hart. ■’* * * Mrs Lawrence.- captain of the Christchurch ladies’ golf team, is staying at Onslow House. «■ • Lady Stout, of Wellington, is visiting Dunedin, where she is staying at Albert House, St. Clair. • • • Mrs B. C. Haggitt gave a tea party for her daughter, Miss Edith Haggitt, yesterday afternoon at the Otago Women’s Club. The table on which tea was served in the clubroom was beautifully arranged with white stock and heather to give a bridal appearance. Mrs Haggitt wore black morocain heavily beaded and a black hat with plumes, while Miss Haggitt was in navy blue crepe-do-chine with a hat to match. The guests present were Lady Ferguson, Lady Stout (Wellington), Mesdames May, Rattray (Christchurch), Sinclair, Sargood, Menlove, Macassey, Begg, GilkisOn, Shand, LeCren (Timaru), M'Gowan, Reid. Bloinfield, Ritchie, Vivian, Oldham, Cheeseman, Allan, Vallango G. Roberts Theomin Reynolds, Maitland, Jackson, Glendinning, K. Ramsay, Macpherson, Bridgernan, G. Callaway, Hart, Stock, and Clappertbn, Misses Sargood, Menlove, Tolmie, Cook, Allan (2). Ilislop. Cargill, Theomin, Siso, Haggitt, Reynolds, Macasscy, Ramsay, Macpherson, Neill, Hart, Stock, Webster, and Irvine.

Miss Edith Haggitt was guest of honour at a theatre party given for her on Thursday evening last by Mr D. Solomon. The other guests were Mr and Mrs N. Haggitt, Mr and Mrs J- Sim, Misses Macandrcw, Callaway, Stock, Fleming, Irvine, and Haggitt (Invercargill), and Messrs Sinclair (2), Macandrcw, Haggitt, and Solomon.

The Civic and Home Economy Circle of the 'Otago Women’s Club held a meeting on Friday last at the club rooms. The event tpok the form of a luncheon, when the Hon. C. E. Statham gave a short and most interesting address on parliamentary procedure. Mrs Marshall Macdonald, chairwoman of the circle, was hostess, and much of the success of the function was due to her efforts.

Miss Macandrcw gave a Bridge party at the residence of Mrs Norman Haggitt, Mus.solburgh Rise, on Friday evening last, when Miss Edith Haggitt was the chief guest. The others present were Mr and Mrs N. Haggitt, Misses Sargood, Gallaw r ay, Stock, Haggitt (Invercargill), Finch, Fleming, and Clapporton. and Messrs Sinclair (2), Haggitt, Macpherson, and Irvine,

Miss Edna Thomas, the charming voung singer of negro spirituals and creole melodies, who arrives in Dunedin to-morrow, has a happy knack of making friends the world over. Sydney society made much of her when she paid her flying visit to Australia last year, and she was a frequent guest of Lady do Chair at Government House. Dunedin hostesses wall be interested to meet the attractive southerner, who brings with her Miss Lucille Lawrence and her mother, Mrs Everett- Lawrence. The Everett-Lawrenccs are among the oldest families in New Orleans.

Mrs W. Vivian gave a tea party at her residence, Cumberland street, on Friday afternoon last, in honour of Miss Chalmcr, who is shortly leaving for England. The tables were arranged with Michaelmas daisies and ixias, while autumn flowers were in the drawing room. The guests present, in addition to Miss Chalmer, wore Mesdames James, Gallaway, Macassey, Oldham, Denny, Hilton, Jackson, Cantrell, A. Fisher, E. Macassey, Reeves, L. Wilson, Easther Matheson, Callis, Branson, Fleming, Valtange, Clapperton, Sare, Sargood, Greenfield. Sleigh, Martin (Christchurch), and Richardson, Misses .fames, Chalmer, Brod-ric-k, Neill, M‘Lean, Irvine, and Moodie.

Lucile Lawrence, the youthful harpist who accompanies Miss Edna Thomas in her creole songs, is the fourth generation in a family of harpists. When her great-greut-giandrnother was a girl of 18 she was a guest at the White House during the presidency of James Knox Polk. Bochsa, a distinguished harpist of the period, heard her playing there, and, making a stage coach jcurnev of several days to Tennessee, called upon her parents. When he made the request that the girl harpist should accompany him on a concert lour he was met with the frigid response, “Sir, my daughter is a lady!” It, wasn’t done in Tennessee, not in those days! Times have changed, however, even in tho slow-moving South, and tho 18-year-old Lucile of the fourth generation is making hear first world

tour with Edna Thomas, and wearing the costume of that great-great-grandmother! the Everett-Lawrences are among the oldest Hid most aristocratic families of America, and it is interesting to know that Lucile Lawrence chose to make a professional debut in Australia rather than a brilliant social debut in America. “I can always go back to the social side of things,” she remarks.

A meeting of the committee on the Arts and Applied Arts of the women’s section of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, hold last Thursday, was attended by Lady Ferguson (in the chair), Mesdames VV. A. Moore, T. C. Ross, J. Hutchison, C. P. Hainsworth, A. G. Melville, Miss May Barron, and the organising secretary. It_ was reported that most of the sub-coin, mittee had met and wore busy sending out prospectuses to overseas exhibitors. Each nomber of the committee gave some idea >f the amount of space required for the adequate display of their exhibits. Lady Ferguson said she was pleased to announce that the space was being given to the women’s section free of charge by the directors,_ so that this committee had now the privilege of doing the rest—that is, making its special piece of work the most successful of the section. Members expressed willingness to co-operate, and discussed many points pertaining to exhibits. It was decided to send a cable to London to announce the section and have it advertised.

On Thursday evening last, to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Shakespeare, the Play-reading and Music Circles of the Otago Women’s Club held an ‘"open evening,” at which a large audience ot club was present. Mrs Morrell made a short intimation regaining the event, and the rest, of the evening was devoted to acting and music. The first item was a combination of the woodland scenes from ‘‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” in which Mrs C. E. Statham made a disdainful Oberon, Miss Marjorie Statham a lovely Titania, Miss Irene Heywood an impish Puck, Miss Rene Aslin a laughable Bottom, and Mrs A. Stephens and Misses Nancy Barr Marjorie Blomfield, and Peggy White four charming fairies. During the acting of this idyllic piece, music from Mendelssohn’s “ MidyiAmer Night’s Dream” was played by the orchestra, which also accompanied two songs sung by Miss Hcywood and Miss White. To finish, Mendelssohn’s ‘‘Wedding March” was plavcd as the curtain dropped. In the “sleep-walking scene” from “Macbeth,” Mrs Wakefield Holmes look the part of Lady Macbeth, with Mrs Statham as the nurse and "Mrs Eastgate as the doctor. The scene, which is always a powerful one, was very well acted. For the next item, Mrs Evans sang three of Shakespeare’s songs, put to music by Eric Coates —‘‘Orpheus with his Lute,” “It was a Lover and his Lass,” and “Under the Greenwood Tree ” She was accompanied by Miss Ida White. Finally was an uproarious scene from “The Taming of the Shrew,” with Mrs. Wakefield-Holmes as Petrucio, Mrs J. G. S. Doorly as Katharine, Mrs W. J. Morrell as Grumio, and Mrs A. Stephens as the tailor. The cast was excellently chosen, and the evening ended on a note of hearty laughter.

A valedictory service was held in the Church of North-East Valley on Tuesday lasi to wish Godspeed to Miss M. Benjamin, who was leaving New Zealand to go to South Africa to take up missionary work there. The building was packed to the doors, and addresses were delivered by speakers from various parts of New Zealand and from the- representatives of the churches in Dunedin. Mr Vercoe and' Mr Riches (North Island) referred to the honour that was being conferred upon the Churches of Christ, by Miss Benjamin in representing thorn in the foreign field. Mr Stephenson (Christchurch) and Mr Brookes (Invercargill) pointed out the duty of the churches to see that Miss Benjamin was fully supported from this end Various Dunedin speakers spoke of the suitability of M ss Benjamin as a worker in'* the foreign field. Mr King, on behalf of the N.K. Valley Church, then presented Miss Benjamin with a wallet of notes. Miss Benjamin suitably replied, pointing out that she accepted her call to service as an honour conferred on her by God, and she hoped that her friends in Now Zealand would over remember her before the I'nrono of God. The meeting closed with prayer.

On Wednesday evening last the first meeting of the newly-formed Momington branch bf the Home Economies Association was held in the Methodist Sunday School Hall. There was a very satisfactory number of women present to hear Miss Landrett’s most instructive lecture on “Food Values.” Already some 60 women have enrolled, and new members are still joining. The keen interest shown by all augurs well for the success of the branch. During the winter the groan will make a special study of food values, and in addition men and women, competent in the, spheres of medicine and home science, will give addresses.

The engagement is announced of Kathleen Pinckney, fourth daughter of Mr and Mrs G. Pinckney, Glenaray, Southland, to Herbert William, only son of Mr and Mrs Herbert Pinckney, of Boldro Lymington, England.

The Strati'. Collie Club held its annual dance on Thursday last. The night being fine, a large crowd turned out and dancing was kept in full swing till the early hours of the rimming. The supper was all that could be desired. Among the ladies present wore: —Mrs Docherty (brown silk). Mrs A. Sheppard (white satin), Mrs A. Robert son (orange ercpe-de-chino), Mrs J. 'James (blue satin), Mrs K. Tisdall (brown’ silk), Miss L. Tisdall (pink s.llc), Miss N. Morris (blue brocade silk). Miss L. Cox (turquoise taffeta), Miss E. Williams (black morocain). Miss B. M'Lintook (vieux rose silk), Miss D Orlowski (lemon inarocain), Mias K. M‘Rae (shrimp taffeta), Miss B. Milligan (vieux rose crepe-de-chine), Miss C. Matheson (blick c-repe-dc-c-hine), Miss E. Haigh (blue-knitted silk), Miss N. Rosa (lemon taffeta), Miss E. Ross (royal blue crepe-do-chine), Miss D. Tisdall (black velvet), Miss N. Morgan (pale pink crepe-de-chine), Miss M. Menton (blue crepe ciochine), Miss J. Menton (red crepe-dc-chine), Miss M. Robertson (blue crepe-dc-chine), Miss C. Atkinson (apricot silk). Miss M. Glover (green taffeta), Miss A. Atkinson (pink crepe-de-chine), Miss R. Paterson (blue-figured marocain), Miss M. ’Paterson (green silk), Miss M. Slater (pale green morocainj, Miss M. Swan (apricot crepe-de-chine), Miss Campbell (black silk), Miss E. Slater (lemon rnorocain). Miss H. Porter (shell-pink silk), Miss R. Porter (black velvet), M-»s M. Mason (green velvet), Mis.W. Mason (pink silk), Miss M. Allan (electric blue), Miss M. M‘Rao (navy crepe-de-chine), Miss M. James (grey satin), Miss B. Paterson (red silk), Miss M. Maeauley (red velvet). Miss Gunn (apricot silk), Miss 0, Turnbull (green velvet). Miss D. Maeauley (blark and white), Miss M. Stewart (blue silk). Miss H. Thompson (iipriocat crepe-de-chine), Miss E. Thompson (pink taffeta), Miss I, Small (black crepe-de-chine), Miss G. Matheson (orange satin), Miss E. Jones (apricot silk), Mis? O. Mason (shot taffeta),. Miss E. Jones (blue silk), and M.iss Mofyneux (black velvet). Mr A. Guild acted as master of ceremonies and carried out his duties very efficiently. The music was supplied by Messrs Death and Driscoll.

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