The Social Round

Southland Times, Issue 23332, 16 October 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 F. Nurse, Herbert street, has returned from a visit to Dunedin. Miss Young, Dunedin, is visiting her sister, Mrs A. W. Taylor, Lewis street. Miss Violet Roscow, Tay street, has returned from an extended trip abroad. Mrs J. Steele, Broughton Bush, leaves today to spend the week-end at Te Anau. Miss Margaret Cooney, Spey street, has returned from a holiday in Christchurch. Miss Noelene Masters, Kelvin street, left yesterday to spend a holiday in Christchurch. Mrs Thomas O’Byrne, Dalrymple street, leaves on Tuesday to spend a holiday in Wellington. Mrs E. C. Tapley, Dee street, Gladstone, returns tomorrow from a camping holiday in Otago Central. Miss M. Quill, Wellington, has arrived to spend a holiday with her nephew, Mr M. Quill, and Mrs Quill, Bourke street. The Arts and Crafts Circle of the Southland Women’s Club meets on Monday afternoon at 3.30 p.m., when its annual meeting will be held. Mrs Leonard Webb, Albert street, has arrived in New Zealand from a trip to Australia, and is spending a holiday in the north before returning home. Mr and Mrs A. R. Grant, Oware, Wyndham, announce the engagement of their only daughter, Constance, to Bruce, eldest son of Mr W. Aitchison, Dalmore, Ettrick street, Invercargill. Mrs W. S. Todd, Thomson street, Mrs F. O. Mac Gibbon, Forth street, and Miss Perrin, Leet street, accompanied by Miss E. Sykes, of Vancouver, return today from a visit to Christchurch, Hanmer and The Hermitage. Mrs A. le H. Hoyles, Herbert street, who has been visiting her daughter,

Mrs T. D. Spencer, in Sydney, has returned to New Zealand and is spending a holiday in the north before coming south. Mrs C. J. Speight, Wether Hill, Ohai, returns today from a holiday with her mother, Mrs Robert Lee, Anderson’s Bay, Dunedin. She will be accompanied by Mrs Hubert Ryburn, of Dunedin, who will be her guest, and Miss Merrial Webb, Albert street. On Tuesday afternoon members of the Garden Circle of the Southland Women’s Club will visit Mrs J. G. Macdonald’s summer residence at Otatara where the annual meeting will be held. Later a visit will be paid to Messrs Cook and Barlow’s bush garden at Otatara. Cars will leave the Post Office at 2.15 p.m.

SMART FROCKING REPERTORY SOCIETY’S PRODUCTION “To See Ourselves,” E. M. Delafield’s comedy-drama, to be presented by the Invercargill Repertory Society for a three-night season beginning tonight in the Victoria hall, gives one of its characters, Jill, played by Miss Patti Northe, good opportunities to wear smart and attractive clothes, Jill makes her first appearance in a blue checked flannel frock under a blue angora coat. She has been motoring and wears no hat. For dinner she changes into a graceful gown of misty blue crinkle cloque. It has a wide swathed sash, and the deep neckline and shoulders are treated with small bows of scarlet and royal blue velvet. When she goes out she slips a short grey squirrel coat over the frock. Her travelling costume is a brown and white hound’s tooth checked suit worn with a brown taffetas blouse and stitched halo hat of the same material. Over it she wears a fawn jaeger coat. Caroline, Jill’s domesticated, not so smart, sister, played by Mrs H. Rees, wears first a fawn and brown angora jumper suit with a brown suede flower at the neckline. Her dinner gown is of plain black silk velvet and it is relieved by a tinsel embossed net scarf. Before going to bed she is seen in a gold tailored Kenwood dressing gown over a pale pink embroidered crepe-de-chine night gown. Next morning she appears in a royal blue woollen frock made with a peplum, and a square frill of knife pleating on the bodice. Miss M. Owen, as the maid, wears the orthodox but smart black frock and white cap and apron.

ANNUAL DANCE On a recent evening the Rimu Tennis Club held its annual dance. Music was supplied by the Silver Fern Orchestra, an extra being played by Miss M. Leonard. Messrs S. and E. Swain were masters of ceremonies. Winners of the novelty dances were Mr J. Clune and Miss E. Sellars, Mr Paulson and Miss Wilson and Mr C. Green and Miss L. McKenzie. Among those present were: Mr and Mrs H. Bulling; Mesdames H. Barnett, D. Todd, Scannell, Lipscombe, Cannel!. Misses J. Stewart, Davidson, Cournane (2), O. Davidson, I. Emerson, E. Sellers, M. Brumby, H. Dowling, A. Hill, M. Mclntyre, L. McKenzie, Smith, McDermott, K. Cook, Stewart (2), Strangman, M. McNay, A. McKinnel, H. Frew, E. Hensley, B. McHardy, Bedford, Todd (2), I. Swain, J. Shand, Tait, M. Butler, P. Lewis, M. Cairns, Rankin, G. Crighton, M." Leonard, McLennan (2), E. Wilson, M. McKenzie, W. Cannell, S. Ogilvie. Messrs C Emerson, P. Cournane, J. Reynolds. C. Green, J. Ogilvie, Browning (2), F. Evans, J. Flynn, M. Bassit, Newell, J. Welsh, Hillis (3), M. Clay. F. Hodgetts, J. Munro, D. McKenzie, I. Munro. Lincoln, Dowling (2), F. McLew, Henderson (2), J. Graham, C. Thomson, Taylor (2). Swain (5), L. Drake, G. Hurring, J. Shand, J. Crooks, I. McColl, V. Fowler, Frew (2), D. McNicol, C. Withington, Scully (3), J. Doyle, Butler, Smith, E. Clark,

TRAVELS ON THE CONTINENT MISS VIOLET ROSCOW RETURNS INTERESTING IMPRESSIONS “New Zealand is second to none in variety of scenery, but the mountains of Switzerland are wonderful, and the English countryside is the most beautiful I have ever seen.” These were the opinions of Miss Violet Roscow, Tay street, who has just returned from an extensive tour of Great Britain and the Continent. Leaving New Zealand early in February with a party of six, including Miss Gladys Bath, of Christchurch, whose home is in Invercargill, Miss Roscow arrived in London early in April. She spent a week there, and finding the weather cold and miserable, decided to go to the Continent before the Coronation. Her first stepping stone was Paris. From there she went to Nice, and then into Italy. IN ITALY “We were warned not to mention Mussolini by name,” Miss Roscow told The Southland Times. “It is all right when one says nice things about him, but when nasty things are said and overheard, anything is liable to happen. To be on the safe side we referred to him as ‘Mr Smith.’ We hired a car in Rome, and our driver was a Scotsman who spoke Italian fluently, and who had fought for Italy in the Abyssinian war. He hated to talk about it, and told us it was a nightmare. Mussolini is greatly respected by the people and he has done a great deal for Italy. Until recently the unemployed of Rome numbered 50,000, and now there are less than 5000 unemployed people in the city.” , While in Rome Miss Roscow visited St. Peter’s, the biggest church in the world, where a life-size statue of St. Peter sits, and as the worshippers pass they kiss his foot. With centuries of this obeisance, his toes have worn quite smooth and his big toe has had to be replaced. The Vatican was also visited and some time was spent in the Vatican museum, which covers four acres of ground, has 11,000 rooms and 280 staircases. In the Sistine Chapel Miss Roscow saw Michael Angelo’s painting of the Last Judgment which covers a whole wall, and, it is said, was finished in 70 hours in a frenzy of devotion. FLORENCE AND VENICE “From Rome we went to Florence,” Miss Roscow continued, “and there we spent most of our time in art galleries and beautiful churches. Unfortunately we could not see as much as we wanted to, as the day after we got there was a close holiday to commemorate the beginning of the Fascist era in Italy. “We were charmed with Venice. The city was en fete owing to a visit Mussolini was paying to an Austrian ambassador. Everywhere bands were playing, people were singing and gaily decorated gondolas moved up and down the canals. So much is heard about the canals of Venice that one does not realize that there are 45 miles of streets in the city. These make contact across 150 canals by means of bridges, so that it is just as easy to go about Venice on dry land as it is by water. TIDY, CLEAN PEOPLE “After Italy, which is a dirty country, Switzerland seemed like a new pin. I thought it was the most beautiful place of all, and some day I am going back there. I noticed particularly the tidiness and cleanliness of the people and their picturesque homes. Once I actually saw a woman scrubbing her window sills. There was a profusion of spring flowers—crocuses, violets, yellow oxslips, eidelweiss and ever so many others were growing wild in the fields and on the mountain slopes, and above everything the Jungfrau stood up like an enormous iced cake."

SUCCESSFUL DANCE COUNTY COUNCIL SOCIAL CLUB The Southland County Council Social Club held an enjoyable dance on Thursday evening in Elmwood Garden. The music was supplied by Mr Gordon Lindsay’s Revellers, while Mr A. L. Smiley carried out the duties of master of ceremonies. Among those present were: Mr and Mrs J. Tomlinson, Mr and Mrs J. R. Hawcridge, Mr and Mrs J. G. Croad, Mr and Mrs J. McCorkindale, Mr and Mrs Hoglund, Mr and Mrs O, Undrill and Mr and Mrs A. Skjellerup. Misses N. Basstian, C. Lynch, A. McDonald, E. and J. Waterson, W. Shields, C. Chaplin, I. Dempster, J. Springford, J. McCrostie, M. Collie, M. Robertson, Gardiner, I. McDonald, M. Branks, P. Whyte, C. Ronald, Norman (Winton), A. Roberts, M. Gaitt, M. Godward, M. Barclay (Dunedin), M. Thomson, G. Woodward, K. Pittaway, A. Hormann, N. Black, N. Macpherson, I. McKenzie, P. Anderson, D. Shuttleworth, B. Lumsden, B. Chisholm, F. Fortune, W. Thom, G. McGill, A. Miller, T. Edwards and N. Sutherland. Messrs J. Hamilton, R. Blue, J. Purdue, S. G. Brown, J. D. Walker, I. Wilson, O. Cowie, R. Lindsay, D. Davis, C. Miller, R. Walker, O. Davis, J. Collis, D. Richardson, R. Fraser, L. Fraser, C. Shirley, T. G. Groves, B. Gardiner, A. Smiley, A. Pearce, A. C. Hormann, H. W. Joel, A. Duthie, D. Ferris, Perrelle, Sutherland, Norman (3) (Winton), L. H. Jones, J. Chaplin, B. McDonald, M. J. O’Sullivan, J. Hewitt (Winton), L, Cowie, K. Summers, L. K. Neill, J. Dunstan, A. Scott, W. Fraser, W. Strang, J. Faulkner, J. Delaney, A. Walsh, Lumsden, C. Milne and Dr Miller. COUNTRY NEWS BLUFF Mr and Mrs F. H. Pearce and their family, Athleney street, who have been spending a holiday in Christchurch, return home during the week-end. Miss Cottrell, Akaroa, was a passenger by the Ranui for Half Moon Bay on Wednesday last. She intends to stay at Stewart Island for some months. There was a good attendance of members and visitors at the opening of the Ladies’ Bowling Club on Wednesday. Those present included: Mesdames T. A. Speer, A. Wishart, J. Walker, D. McKenzie, M. Tennet, C. Barry, J. D. Thomson, G. Applegarth, W. P. Butler, J. Nightingale, E. Budd, C. E. Frew, D. E. S. Mason, B. Mehaffey, C. Durham, A. Parsons, J. Parsons, A. Vincent, L. W. Lopdell, G. Kerr, E. Smith, J. C. Thompson, W. Wedderspoon, W. Steel, L. H. Hay, Gavan, G. D. Smart, Allan, Misses Steele and A. Brownlie.

Mrs N. Stewart, Ocean Beach, was hostess at bridge on Thursday evening. Miss Cardia Fowler, Henderson street, is visiting Dunedin.

Mrs G. R. George, York Place, Dunedin, paid a brief visit to Bluff during the week. The monthly meeting of the Presbyterian Women’s Missionary Union was held at the manse, Bann street, on Thursday afternoon. Mrs T. A. Speer presided over a good attendance of members. Letters were read from Sister Edith of the Maori Mission, Tokaanu, and Mrs McNeur of the Canton Mission, China. A circular was received from Sister Margaret of the Bible Society asking for assistance. A discussion took place as to the best means

of collecting funds for the society, but it was left until the next meeting to finalize arrangements. WYNDHAM After a short stay with Mrs W. J. Currie, Balaclava street, Miss Carnahan, Invercargill, has returned home. Miss Isabel Hunter, Balaclava street, Wyndham, and Miss Helen Hunter, Redan, are spending a holiday in Dunedin. Mrs D. O. McCaughan, Alma street,

has returned to Wyndham from a visit to Mr and Mrs G. Brock, Dunedin. After a holiday in Dunedin with her parents, Mr and Mrs King, Mrs Eric S. Macfarane, Balaclava street, has returned home. Misses Helen Stewart and Frances Milne will spend next week-end at Ashburton. Mrs J. W. Thompson and Miss Joan Thompson, of Dunedin, are the guests of Mrs A. Stewart, Dunalton, Wyndham. The dance held in the Menzies Ferry public hall in aid of the funds of the

football club on Tuesday evening proved successful. The music was supplied by the Star Orchestra (Invercargill) and extras were played by Mr William Brown (Glenham). Messrs William Baird and D. Henderson were masters of ceremonies. A lucky spot dance was won by Mrs D. P. Christie and Mr J. Stewart.