Women the World Over

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 509, 12 November 1928, Page 4

Women the World Over

HIGHLY PAID Miss Gertrude Lawrence, the most highly-paid revue star iu London, recently broke further records in regard to fees when she broadcast favourite songs at a New York radio station. The performance lasted 15 minutes, and Miss Lawrence was paid at the rate o£ £2O a minute. ARCHERY Archery still persists in Great Britain, where this old-fashioned pastime ‘still has many followers. Recently, a woman, Miss V. M. Rushton created a record at the national archery meeting in the gardens o£ Worcester College, Oxford. She scored three successive golds (bull’s-eyes) at a distance of 500yds. AN INDIAN PEERESS A recent portrait of Lady Sinlia, the beautiful wife of Lord Siuha, who succeeded on the death of his father, the

first Indian to he created a peer of the British Realm. The late Lord Sinha was very well known at the Calcutta Bar in his younger days, and eventually became the first Indian Governor of an Indian Province (Bihar and Orissa) in 1920. A CAMELLIA FARM The largest camellia farm in the United States is owned by Mrs. L. Simpson, who, six years ago, sold a bunch o£ these blooms to a woman tourist and conceived the idea of growing and selling camellias exclusively. With the aid of an old negro gardener, whose advice she followed, she planted 300 cuttings in boxes and placed them in a sheltered place. Practically every cutting rooted, and to-day her beautiful camellias are known over a wide district. FROM NEW ZEALAND An appointment of interest to New Zealanders is that of Miss Lilian Jeffreys, 8.A., late librarian at the Otago University, to the position of mathematics mistress at the British Syria Mission Girls’ Training College at Beyrout, the educational centre ot Syria. DISTINGUISHED OLD AGE Now- in her 77th year, Mrs. Louise Creighton is probably the oldest woman, historian in Great Britain. Her biographies of the Black Prince, Sir Walter Raleigh and the Duke of Marlborough are standard works ot reference, and she has written several histories of France and England. Her latest book, “Tales of Old France,” which was published in 1924, still has a large sale.