PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17609, 27 October 1931, Page 5

PERSONAL

. Dr, E. €5. Jardine, AVairoa, and Mr. D, • V. Thomas, Waikarcmoana, are visiting‘Gisborne, The Von. Afchdcacon Creed-Mere-dith, vicar of Christ Church, Wanganui, will hot return to New Zealand owing to bad health. ' Mr. J. F. Quinn has been appointed ComriuHsidncr of Crown Lands for the Hawke's Bay land district, and Mr. F. E. Burnley chief surveyor. . The speaker at yesterday’sluncheon of the s Rotary Club who delivered a most interesting address on the subject of the Great. Pyramid was Mr. ,Sydney W. S. Strong, geologist to the Taranaki •Oil Co., not Mr. T. B. Strong as reported. .... Now facing Parisian footlights is a clever Hawke’s Bay girl, Miss Mildred Nelson, younger daughter of Mr. and Mis. W.'- H. Nelson, of “Laureston,” Woodville, and granddaughter of Mr. W. Nelson, Waikoko, Hastings. Under her stage name, Patricia Nelson,’ she has been playing for eight months in .). W. 'Jackson’s 1051 Revue at tlio Palace Theatre in the Faubourg Montmartre. This is the theatre in which tiie fascinating' Spaniard,* Raqtiel Mellor, has so often starred in’revue. Jacksoil is a big produce! on the Continent, and Ims shows running at three, of the best variety theatres in Paris—the Palace, the Casino (where Maurice Chevalier was' starring in 1928), and the Empire. lie goes to London to select artists for his revues, arid is besieged by eager applicants; it is a great feather in flic cfjp to be picked by him for Paris. The sketches in which Miss Nelson appears are all in French!