The Social Round

Southland Times, Issue 23946, 12 October 1939, Page 15

The Social Round

The lady editor will be pleased to receive for publication in -The Soda! Round" each day Hems of soda! or personal news. Such Hems should be ■ent in promptly and should be fully authenticated. Engagement noUcei must bear the signatures of both parties. Correspondence is invited •n any matters affecting, or of Interest to. women.

The engagement is announced of Ethel Olive, second daughter of Mr and Mrs James Johnstone, of Leeston, Canterbury, to Robert Claude, second son of Mrs S. Dagg, of Liddel street, Invercargill.

Mrs R. M. Hutton Potts, Don street, is the guest of Mrs Colin Story, Venlaw.

Mrs E. R. Bremner, Coronet Peak, is staying with her mother Mrs B. C. Basstian, Tweed street.

Mrs Roy Hanan, Chapman street, has returned from Dunedin where she was the guest of Dr and Mrs Clarke Hanan.

Miss Wynnis Armour, Avenal street, was hostess at a recipe tea in honour of Miss Margaret Chisholm yesterday morning.

Miss Kathleen Moffett, who is staying with Mrs J. L. Hazlett, Gretna Green, will be a visitor to town for the week-end.

The annual meeting of the Playreading Circle of the Womens Club will take place at the Women’s Club rooms on Tuesday, October 17, at 7.45 p.m.

Mrs P. de la Perrelle, Park street, Winton, entertained a number of friends at a handkerchief tea yesterday afternoon in honour of Miss Barbara Swale.

Mr and Mrs A. S. Gilkison who have spent the last two years in Nelson, will arrive in Invercargill at the end of the week and will take up residence in Wellesley Flats, Dee street.

The Queen is to lend a crayon sketch of herself done some years before her marriage, by John Sargeant, to the Centennial Exhibition. Queen Mary is sending a lalique mirror, and a greenstone gold-mounted casket, presented to her by the people of Auckland many years ago. As well she is contributing ten fans, and fifteen pieces of needlework and embroidery, including two embroidered handkerchiefs, one of which belonged to Queen Alexandra, the other to Queen Victoria. The Duchess of Gloucester has lent two watercolour landscapes of Africa. It is fitting that the wife of Poland’s best-dressed man, and one of the most brilliant diplomats in Europe, Colonel Beck, should be one of the most chic women of that country. Tall, dark, handsome Colonel Beck and his beautiful ash-blonde wife make a striking couple. Mme. Jadwiga Beck—who has visited London several times—comes of an old Polish family. She shares a weakness in her husband’s diplomatic armoury, for, like him, she speaks excellent French and German, but her English is of the slenderest. An excellent hostess, she also shares Colonel Beck’s good taste in food and wine.