Notes for Women

Southland Times, Issue 25549, 18 December 1944, Page 6

Notes for Women

Mrs M. Davin, Forth street, left on Saturday to spend a holiday in Wellington. Mrs A. T. Gulliver, Kelvin street, leaves for her new home in Patea tomorrow morning. Mrs W. Trembath, formerly of Riverton, has been appointed manageress of the Southland Hotel at Gore. Miss P. Dickie, Croyden Siding, has i been the guest of Mrs J. Simpson, Mary ( street, for the weekend. 1 Mrs T. E. Davis, and Mrs G. Ross, £ Forth street, leave today for a holiday at Stewart Island. I Mrs J. O. P. Watt, Avenal Flats, has returned from a holiday spent at Para- j paraumu and Christchurch. Mrs L. Jury, who has been staying i with her aunt, Mrs F. G. Stone, Conon < street, returns north today. i Miss June Carswell, Dunedin, who was the guest of Mrs V. A. Mehaffey, ’ Grey street, has returned home. - 1 Miss Joy Beattie, of Oamaru, who ( played the leading role in “The Belle of , New York,” which was produced in t Dunedin some time ago, has left by ; plane for Australia, where she has ac- ( cepted an engagement with the J. C. j Williamson Comedy Company. “The majority of persons who suf- 1 fer from tuberculosis recover their 1 health,” said Dr I. C. Macintyre, speak- f ing to the patients at the Coronation < Hospital, Cashmere Hills. “But recov- I ery does not rest altogether on medi- < cal and nursing skill or on medicines; s the patients can do much for them- I selves; if they have faith and hope they ; can help themselves tremendously, and I ask all of you to have added faith in - yourselves in the New Year.” To the I patients who could not go home for t Christmas, Dr Macintyre said: “There < is another Christmas coming”; to those i going home he said: “Don’t do too much < and overtire yourselves.” t Under the direction of Miss Ngaio ’ Marsh, the well-known New Zealand ; author, two Shakespearean plays, “Hamlet” and “Othello,” are being pre- 1 sented in Dunedin by the Canterbury University College Drama Society. The 1 decision to visit Dunedin arose from the enthusiastic reception given by the s public when the plays were presented 1 recently at the Little Theatre in Christ- 1 church, where they ran for three weeks 1 to packed houses. Most of the stage scenery had been designed and pre- ‘ pared by the students themselves, and 1 it entailed an enormous amount of work to prepare new settings for the j larger stage in Dunedin. A. J. Hen- ‘ derson, who takes the title role in 8 “Hamlet,” and who came to New Zealand from England, intends to return to I England early next year to follow a ) stage career. In presenting “Hamlet” in ‘ modern dress, Miss Marsh is following ■ tradition, for it is only during the past * 100 years that this play has been pre- ‘ sented in costume. Up till the nineteenth ’ century it had been played in the dress ! of the period, and it has been played I within recent years both in England and ; on the Continent in modern dress. The gift of some prewar brocades has made it possible to present “Othello” in the authentic costumes of the period. In her approach to technique in the production of the coming plays, Miss Marsh has followed the lead of the Russian ] authority on modern technique, Stan- f islavsky. i