THE SOCIAL ROUND

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 262, 9 December 1914, Page 4

THE SOCIAL ROUND

Mrs G. Humphreys has gone to Auckland for a short visit. Miss' Greenwood was a passenger to the north last, evening. Miss M. Newton (Christchurch) is visiting Mrs Macfarlane (Lyndon). ... Mr and Mrs Rowe (Christchurch) are staying at Warner's at present. Miss Gresson sailed by the Waliine last evening for a visit to the North Island. Miss Gossett (Merivale) has gone to Hawke's Bay, on a visit to Mrs CY Williams.

The Misses Fleming. (Port Levy) v are staying with Mrs Malcolm Macfarlane (Rangiora). Mrs Greenwood, who has been staying at Warner's for a day or two, returned to Amberley to-day. Miss Falk (Sydney), who has been visiting friends at Geraldine, Dunedin, and other Southern ports, has gone to the North Island.

Miss Parker and Miss Pilling came up from Timaru yesterday, and left for the north by the ferry boat the same evening, en route to Canada. Miss Lewis, an Australian lady who has just come back from a trip to England, is at present the guest of Bishop and Mrs Julius at Bishopscourt. A garden party will be held at River Xawn, the residence of Mrs G. J. Smith (Opawa), December 19, in connection "with the jubilee services of the Durham Street Church. The 'sale of work, commenced at the Bishopscourt garden party yesterday

afternoon, was continued in St. Luke's Mission Hall in tbe evening, when a musical programme was also given. To the latter the principal contributors were Mr L. Barnes, Miss Hope, Mr Osborn Smith, Mrs Osborn Smith, and Mr Petty. The effort generally was very successful, over £4O being raised for the Melanesian Mission. A specially attractive musical programme was given by Miss Lilian Harper (piano), and Miss Lalla Hemus ('eello) at the Henrietta Tea Booms ; morning. . Included were Macdowell's "Forgotten Fairy Tale's," the '' Appassionata Sonata'' - thoven), Popper's '' Minnetto," Jensen's "Elfin Tanze," Chopin's "Ballade in Ab," and several delightful » Chaininade fragments. Morning tea and strawberries proved doubly delightful .when absorbed to the accompaniment of such music. The musicians who play there every morning had a arge audience, including several gentlemen well-known in musical circles, and all expressed themselves as delighted with the i>rogramme. The organiser of the concert 111 aid nt ! Nazareth Ilavise last evening, Miss N. Hay ward, must have felt pleased at the very successful result achieved, both financially and otherwise. The stage was arraffged as a drawing-room, with panelled walls, carpeted lloor, easy chairs, palms and flowering plants, making "an attractive background for the artists. Mrs Mangos, the Timaru pianist, whose playing charmed everyone, wore a very graceful gown of soft, dull blue satin, the corsage entirely veiled in fine black net, embroidered in gold thread. The skirt was similarly draped, the net being caught at one side . with a pale pink rose, a swathed belt of the same colour defining the waist. Miss Jlayward and all the other ladies who Hang or played, with the exception of Miss Daisy (hunt, chose white, the latter being

in pale pink. The most gorgeous bouquets and baskets of flowers were handed tip to the ladies, not only in single offering's, but in armfuls, one singer receiving a laurel wreath as well.

j The beautiful grounds surrounding j Bishopscourt were looking their very I prettiest .yesterday, when a garden party and sale of work in connection with the Melanesian Mission was held. The stalls were arranged on the lawn, and looked very tempting with their fine display of saleable articles. Amongst the attractions "on the side" was a miniature representation of the hospital at Melanesia. Rows of neat white bods were occupied by Solomon Island dolls, in different stages of illness and convalescence, and two dolls, attired in workmanlike blue dresses, caps,'and aprons, took the part of nurses. There was also a doctor doll, and a wonderfully well-carried-out Bishop doll, while the mission, boat, the Southern Cross, was firmly anchored, in a tangle of tropical foliage, in an adjacent tub of water.- .Novice Helen, wlio is going to Melanesia presently, was the originator of the scheme. Amongst those present during the afternoon were the Bishop and Mrs Julius, Miss Lewis (Australia), Mrs El worthy, Mrs Hayes and Miss, Hayes, Mrs Win, Wood, Miss Gresson, Mrs Cox, Mrs and Miss Fryer, Miss Thomson, Miss Bannard, Mrs Keith Ollivier, Miss Muriel Ollivier, Misses Colborne-Veel (2), Mrs Helmore, Mrs Buchanan, Miss Fair, Mrs and Miss Maling, and many others. A pretty wedding was celebrated at the Wcsleyan Church, Fitzgerald Avenue, yesterday afternoon, the Rev. W. A. Sinclair officiating. The bridegroom was Mr Ernest Sugden, and the bride Miss Winifred Emmeline Harvey, only daughter of Mr T. 11. Harvey and the late Mrs Harvey, both of Christchurch. The bride, who entered the church on the arm of her father, by whom she was subsequently given away, wore a very graceful trained wedding gown of white crepe de chine, veiled in shadow jlace, and ornamented , with sprays of orange blossoms. She carried a beautiful shower bouquet of choice white car-, nations, softened with maiden-hair fern, and Wore a coronet of orange blossoms and veil of embroidered tulle. She was attended by one Miss Kane, I who was prettily frocked in white embroidered voile, white hat trimmed with ' Avhite tulle, aiid bouquet' of pink carnations and fern. Mr Down accompanied the bridegroom as best man, and Mr Owen presided at the organ. After the ceremony an adjournment was made -to the Ridgely Hall, where a delightful wedding tea was held in honour of the event, and where the , newly-married couple received the congratulations of their friends. A festival of Australian drama was held this week at the Repertory Theatre, under the auspices of the Millions Club, the proceeds being devoted to the. war fund, states a Melbourne exchange. Five home-made plays were presented. The names of the authors, in accordance with the rules of the society, were not mentioned. Perhaps the most important was i( Mrs Pretty and the Premier," a» Australian comedy, by ? ? ?" a hieroglyph easily translated into A. Adams. The scene is laid in the Pre mier's private room at Parliament House, Sydney, where the statesman, commonly called "Bill," is discovered with his secretary and a young lady

typist, so romantic, as to be described as "soggy with sentiment." Premier Bill (played by Mr Norman Zions), a selfman, has had no time to devote to the proper study of mankind — woman—and, in spite ot' the efforts of old Gregory (chief messeugcr at Parliament House), who, from deex) experience, pronounces all women to be "as dangerous as death adders," proves to be simply wax in the clever, but unscrupulous, hands of Mrs Pretty. One really amusing little scene occurs when this lady's handbag is discovered in the Premier's office, and, tinder an acute necessity to discover its owner's name .and address, the Premier and the Labour Party whip open it. Diving cautiously into its reeesses they produce a tram ticket, which is solemnly examined; next a dainty lawn handkerchief, that yields no clue; then a pencil of lipsalve, which both men eye, smell, and taste distrustfully; then another mystery, a power puff, and so ou. Miss Grace Stafford, as Mrs Pretty, the fascinating widow whose "Wyanora Estate" is in danger of being cut up by the Premier into blocks for '' cockies,'' wears a succession of simple, but effective, toilettes. An evening gown of pale blue chiffon taffetias has a kilted tunic of blue tulle and vest of ivory lace; oyer it is worn a highwayman cloak of primrose yellow crepe, with rolled collar of black velvet; a cluster of big black passion flowers at the waist makes an artistic finish.