ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Patea Mail, Volume XLIX, 30 November 1928, Page 4

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Commander Richard Byrd. who is in Xew Zealand with the Antarctic Expedition, lias a wife ami tour children, whose home is in Boston, United States. On his last day at home hundreds of‘ .friends dropped in jit the Byrd home to wish the adventurer good luck and safe return.

A cinema to he opened shortly in Xew York will have a special room to which children who cry during the performance may he removed. The room is provided with glass windows so Hint those in charge of the infants can see the ‘film, where the howling is inaudible to the rest of the audience.

Money attracts money, said English society folk, whoa Hiss Olive Sains Inirv married Lord Inverclyde. What they will say now the pair have been sundered by the Divorce Court is another story. Both an 1 wealthy. Lady Inverclyde being comfortably endowed with a share of the profits from the tSainbury provision firm, with branches all over London; while Lord Inverclyde inherited over two millions in 1919. when he was only 22. The family has only been in the peerage since 1895, when John Burns. Cunard shipping magnate, was made first baron. In the brief period, however, it has accumulated traditions. Hence, when Lord Inverclyde married "Miss Pain shiny, he obeyed the dictates of traditional ceremony by carrying her across the doorstep of the ancestral home, Castle Womyss. Presumably he will now carry her out.