THE SOCIAL ROUND

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 212, 12 October 1914, Page 4

THE SOCIAL ROUND

Mrs Fenwick is at present in Wellington. Miss Rhodes returned to Christchureh on Saturday from a visit to Wellington. Miss Moyes, who has been visiting Christchureh friends, has gone back to her home in New Plymouth. Mrs Leslie Orbell has returned to "The Croft," Timaru, after spending a fortnight visiting friends in Dunedin. Miss Poppy Turner, who has been visiting friends in Christchureh, returned to Timaru on Friday, accompanied by Miss Joyce Tonks. Mrs George Murray, who came up to Christchureh to be present at the Beadel-Cholmondeley wedding last Tuesday, has returned to her home at Timaru. Mr and Mrs Thos. Grose, Miss Grose, and Mrs J. Grose, of Adelaide, South Australia, arrived in Christchureh on Saturday, and are staying at the United Service Hotel. Mr and Mrs B. J. Ager (Christchureh) motored to Dunedin on Friday, to be present at the concluding day of the Dunedin Jockey Club's Spring Meeting >n Saturday. Sir George and Lady Clifford were amongst the visitors at the Hydro Grand Hotel, Timaru, during the week. With Miss Clifford, they went on to Dunedin for the races, and were expected back in Timaru yesterday, where they intended making a short stay before returning to Christchureh. A good deal of interest is being taken in the concert which Miss Dulcie Mitchell will give in the Theatre Eoyal to-night, and the booking seems to promise a good reception for the young contralto, whose first appearance in New Zealand it is, after her three years of study at Home. The opening of the rowing season was performed in the teeth of a terrific nor'-wester, on Saturday, and such weather conditions naturally affected the attendance, and the social aspect generally. However, a very fair proportion of the feminine element donned its new spring gown and braved the elements in order to be present, and in the evening flannel dances in connection with the various clubs were held in their respective rooms. "St. Elmo," Worcester Street, was the scene of a pleasant ceremony on Saturday night, when the guests, numbering about thirty, assembled in the dining-room to wish happiness and prosperity to Miss Hampton, whose marriage to Mr F. J. Murray takes place this veek. The presentation of a tea service jx pewter was also made, and several guests made speeches expressive of the good feeling entertained towards Miss Hampton, and her unfailing kindness and thoughtfulness to the guests at "St. Elmo." One of the most delightful of Saturday's fixtures was the. Automobile Association's opening run to Mount Pleasant. The climb up the winding road to the new tea house at the top afforded picturesque glimpses of the estuary below, the cloud-flecked sky making chequers of light and shade on its wind-whipped surface, while on uther side of the road blazed golden patches of gorse, contrasting vividly with the bright green of shrub and herbage. The high wind and summery temperature made afternoon tea particularly, welcome, Mr F. W. Johnston (president of the Association) and Mrs Johnston acting as host and hostess. Amongst the large number of guests were: Dr and Mrs Simpson, Dr and Mrs Louisson, Mr and Mrs 11. Piper, Mr and Mrs F. Hubbard, Mr and Mrs SeadGowing, Mr and Mrs D. Crozier, Messrs Mervyn M. Stevenson, Mark Davis, H. E. Sellars, W. Scott, C. W); Hervey, E. R. Climie, R. Kennett, Montgomery, Arthur Morton,-W. E. Mills, and many others. A correspondent sends along particulars of the Leeming-MeDonald wedding, which took place in last week: —A quiet wedding was celebrated ir. Wellington by the Rev. Father Barrar, when Captain C. V. Leeming, No. B Battery, N.Z.F.A., of the Expeditionary Force, eldest son of Mr and Mrs G\ Leeming, of Christchureh, was married to Margaret Imelda, fourth daughter of Mrs McDonald, North Avon Road. The bridegroom was attended by Lieutenant Dunnet as best man. The bride, who was given away by her brother, Mr F. J. McDonald, was accompanied by Miss Kathleen Egan as bridesmaid. A very pleasant wedding breakfast took place afterwards at the Hotel Windsor-, where Captain and Mrs Leeming were entertained by a few friends. Those present included: Mrs Mills (sister of the bride), Miss Egan, Misses M. and K. Egan, Miss O'Donoaue, Miss Maedonald, Miss Meyer, Messrs O'Connor, Pool, Dunnet, and McDonald. A Hong Kong contemporary makes the following announcement of a wedding of interest to New Zealanders: —On Saturday, August 22, the wedding of

Captain William Hyde, Hong Kong, and Miss Ethel Mary (Effie) Young, second daughter of the late Judge Young, of the Native Land Court, Wellington, New Zealand, and of Mrs T. E. Young, Clyde-Quay, Wellington, was solemnised at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon. The Very Rev. Archdeacon Barnett was the officiating clergyman. The bride, who was given away by Mr James Hyde, brother of the bridegroom, wore a charmingly graceful gown of ivory cloth, with touches of Irish lace, a white felt hat with a lancer plume, and carried a sheath of white orchids and ferns. Little Miss Mary Hyde, niece of the bridegroom, acted as bridesmaid, and wore a pretty hailstone muslin frock, trimmed with real lace and pink ribbons. She carried a posy of pale pink roses and ferns. Mr J. Waldron, of Hong Kong, acted as best man. After the ceremony, a reception was held at the Station Hotel, Kowloon. The guests included Mr and Mrs J. Hyde, Mrs Waterhouse (Shanghai), and a number of the bridegroom's fellow-officers. M. Marinetti, the leader of the Futurists, has issued another manifesto. This time he deals with the ideal musichall as the Futurists would have it. The future of the music-halls, he der clares, lies on the lines of the exaggeration of absurdity. "All logic must be destroyed, contrasts must be multiplied, the impossible and the absurd must predominate. For instance, lady artists should paint their necks, arms, and ears orange, mauve, and red. Songs should be interrupted by bad language or by revolutionary speeches." Other suggestions offered to those who conduct music-halls are that turns consisting of burlesque adaptations of Shakespeare's tragedies and Beethoven's music played backwards should be given. Problem plays should be given, with every character taken by negroes. Lastly, the stage should be well soaped, so that the players should make the public laugh by sprawling on their faces at critical moments. Sir Charles Waldstein, speaking of the part played in the making of fashion by suggestion, said that the designer hypnotised the manufacturer into believing that an ugly thing, was beautiful, the manufacturer practised this thing on the merchant, who again passed it on to the dressmaker, and the dressmaker to her customers, until the wives and daughters hypnotised their fathers and brothers and friends, and the whole world bowed down to an eccentric fashion. Sir Charles Waldstein warned his hearers against the insidious tactics of those who, though they dared not openly introduce the hoop skirt and the. crinoline, had in a slight and tentative (though to his taste a hideously ugly) form introduced it in principle as an additional ornament in short overskirts standing off from the body by means of a regular hoop. Additional grotesqueness was sometimes lent by dependent ornaments, and some day perhaps bells or castanets would allow the art theorist to say that the beauty of sound had been added to the beauty of form and colour. The women-police idea is one to which we are rapidly becoming accustomed. The movement has spread to many countries, both in the Old World and in America. News has just come to hand that Servian young women are being recruited in large numbers in the region of Uskub to form a female corps of gendarmes. The innovation, which is being carried out by the military, in co-operation with the municipal authorities, is arousing the liveliest interest throughout Servia, and opinions, are much divided on the subject. The women, it is stated, are to be employed, in the first instance, in the service of the secret police. Miss Winifred Honey, who won the travelling scholarship (Melbourne University) was at Amsterdam when the war broke out, but hastened to London. Miss Honey went to Amsterdam to do a copy of an 'old master for the Melbourne Gallery, which has to be painted under the conditions of the Travelling Scholarship, and for the third time she was prevented from carrying out her obligations. Her first effort was in connection with the Rokeby Venus, which was hacked by a suffragist. She then started on another old master, when, owing to further outrages, the National Gallery in London was closed altogether. Now the war has put a stop to her work in Holland, just as she was about to complete a copy in the gallery there. The loss of time and the expense has been considerable.