The Social Round

Southland Times, Issue 23208, 25 May 1937, Page 9

The Social Round

The lady editor will be pleased to receive for publication in “The Social Round** each day items of social or personal news. Such items should be sent in promptly and should be fully authenticated. Engagement notices must bear the signatures of both parties. Correspondence is invited on any matters affecting, or of interest to women.

Miss Ethel E. McKee, at present at Waimatua, has been appointed assistant mistress at the Knapdale school. Mrs E. Snow Miller leaves by the express this morning on her return to Wellington after a visit to Invercargill. Miss E. Hunt, lecturer for the Theosophical Society, Christchurch, is the guest of Mrs George Conland, Crinan street

The engagement is announced of Alison Ruth, daughter of Mrs Fell and the late Mr B. Fell, Rugby street, Enwood, to Ernest Arthur, son of Mr and Mrs A. Sefton, Venus street, Georgetown.

Mrs Emrys Thomas, Louisa street, leaves by the express on Thursday morning for Auckland, where sh£ joins the Mariposa for the United States of America. She will be the guest of her sister, Mrs W. Ashby Evans, at Coronado for some months.

Miss D. McMillan, of the Sudan Interior Mission, who spent many years in Abyssinia as a missionary, passed through Christchurch recently on her way to her home at Dunedin. She was met on the Christchurch station by Mr W. W. Stewart, of the Canterbury Missionary Association. Her doctor has ordered her to have a complete rest.

Since, as Stalin puts it, life has “became better and more joyous” in the Soviet Union, Moscow’s leading store has been arranging a window display of the newest evening and morning models for men. There are only half-a-dozen models, so far, all for rather small men and too high in price to attract anything but curious crowds and a few timid inquiries. The morning coat is called a “visiting suit”; the evening outfit, after the Continental fashion, is a “frock.” The dinner suit (or “smoking”) is copied after the French fashion.

Mrs Baldwin’s long reign as hostess at No. 10 Downing Street, official residence of the Prime Minister, will come to an end with what will be perhaps the most brilliant private dinner party given in London for more than 20 years. It will be held this evening, when about _ 50 guests—including the King and Queen—will dine in the Prime Minister’s banquet room, writes the London correspondent of The Dominion. This is a large and lofty room leading off the smallish room where Mr Baldwin and his wife dine when alone. A few days after this party, Mr Baldwin will retire and hand over his office to Mr Neville Chamberlain, at present Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Baldwins will then move to No. 69 Eaton Square, which is already being redecorated in readiness. A deep shade of cream, brightened with touches of reds and blue, has been chosen for the walls throughout the house. Furniture which has been long in the Baldwin family will be used in preference to the modern fumed oak and chromium styles. Both Mr and Mrs Baldwin prefer deep cosy armchairs and well-cushioned settees to the flimsylooking though strong wooden furniture of today.