Notes for Women PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22612, 2 July 1935, Page 15

Notes for Women

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

By phillida

Miss Betty Pocock, Mrs C. M. Barnett, Miss Winifred Gardner, Mrs B. R. Neea and Mrs Leonard Cronin are anions; the Performers in this evening’s all-Mozart programme under the • auspices of the Dunedin Choral Society. The concert promises to be of outstanding merit and popularity.

Last evening the Dunedin Repertory Society held a social evening in the Concert Chamber. There was a very large audience. Mr Brugh and Mr Dali made several announcements, after which the three following one-act plays were presented:—“Get Out of Your Cage,” by Mary Plowman, produced by Miss Anita Winkel, with the following cast:—Angele, Joyce Messent; Miss Hope, Mamie Boulton; Miss Meek, Mrs Bolwell; Miss Drear, Ngata Buswell; Miss Legg, Joyce Cooper; and Miss Duquesne, Edna Lungley, “ Bath-Shega of Saaremanby Aino Kallas, produced by Mr Gordon Niven, with Viva-Kai played by Mrs Anderson, Riina played by Molly O’Sullivan, and Kuigi-Siim played by Rene Harknees,” and “ Save Us From Our Friends,” by Ernest Denny, produced by Mr E. Griffen, the cast being Mamie Moore, Rhoda M'Donald; Joyce Field, Madge Tuckwell; Violet, Betty Bell; Max Lessing, John Nevill; Daisy Collins, Trixie Wood; Laura Gray. Olga Juriss; Jefferson Crake, David Smith; and Gordon, Desmond MacAvoy. Dancing concluded the evening.

On Wednesday Mrs Holmes, the retiring president of the Leith Ladies’ Bowling Club, entertained the members at afternoon tea in the Savoy, the ladies afterwards retiring to the lounge, where at an opportune moment Mrs M’lntyre thanked Mrs Holmes. On replying Mrs Holmes expressed her pleasure for the party. Those present were: Mesdames Holmes, Knowles, Heaney, M'lntyre, .Birred, Johnstone, Miles, Gunn, Paterson, Sincock, Ferguson, Sanderson, Armstrong, Butterfield, Asher, M'Crindle, Bills, Etheridge, Wardlaw, Darragh, G. Heaney, and A, Wardlaw.

ruler examined my throat. I was pro* nounced in need of surgical attention, «o was sat in a chair, draped in a sheet, and given some filthy looking coloured “ medicine ” to swallow. The taste was vile, but it paid to take it meekly, for otherwise they held your nose a‘nd forced it down. Then came two pills—huge things which really were balls of marsipan, given to remove the foul taste of the medicine.

The operation was then performed, with hedge-clippers, saws, carving knives, etc., till from under the sheet were dragged < awful strings—of sausages, hearts, old livers, fishes’ and ducks heads, dead birds, etc. (filthy brutes!). But how the spectators yelled with joy at the sight. After that I had to climb a ladder to the platfrom, and sit on a high stool, with no back, and for an awful moment I think I realised what a gallows feeling was. I was allowed to tie on my cap, firmly and tightly, and then I was soaped all over with some green sticky liquid mess having a foul smell. Then another awful moment as my stool was tipped backwards, and flop, ( I went into the deep end, where the “ bears ” ostensibly pushed me under again and again, but in reality were gentle and quite unnecessarily helpful. Then out I climbed to be met by a kind friend with my towel, and so I was duly certified as having crossed the equator, and received officially as one of Neptune’s subjects.

Then came the men, and they, of course, had to submit to more rigorous punishment, such as whitewash, and soap to