The Sociall Round
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Mrs A. F. Speight, Redcliff, is visiting Dunedin. Mrs B. Pinckney, Gleneagles, will leave today to visit her mother, Mrs C. Kain, Gledstone Park, Orari. Major W. N. Bond and Mrs Bond, and Miss Mary’ Bond, Dunrobin, will leave today for the north. Miss Joyce Gilmour, Herbert street, will return this morning from Redcliff, where she has been the guest of Mrs A. F. Speight. The actor, Sir John Martin Harvey, has given a cottage in the country in England , for the use of nurses who are in need of a holiday. Miss Gwen Le Gallienne, daughter of Mr Richard Le Gallienne, the poet and author, was the first woman artist to be sent to the front by the War Office. She is best known as a portrait painter, and had intended to hold an exhibition in London this autumn. A good deal of her life has been spent in Paris, but she also knows the United States, where her father lives. On one occasion she won fifty dollars from Count John McCormack by jumping fully dressed from the pier on Long Island Sound.
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Southland Times, Issue 24164, 28 June 1940, Page 7
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