ELTHAM ITEMS

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)

ELTHAM ITEMS

Mrs. D. Lupton, Waverley, who has been the guest of Mrs. N. P. Best, has returned home. Mrs. de Launay was boat ess .‘H bridge on Wednesday evening. Mrs. A. Best was hostess at a very enjoyable birthday party on Saturday afternoon for her small daughter, Kyra. 4 o 4 -> Mrs. A. A. Stewart was hostess at bridge on Wednesday evening in honour of Mrs. St. L. Reevets, Who is leaving tho distict shortly, I'hosc prcisont were Mrs. Reeves, Mrs. Weir, Mrs. Wylds, Mrs. Wilson, Miss Wilson and Miss H. Wilson. 4 * 4 4 • Mrs. Wylds was hostess at bridge last Saturday evening.

Women at the Bar. There were only five women among the 101 law students called to. the Bar in London recently by the four Inns of Court. Two of these, Mies P. Hackett and Miss Fergusfion Murdoch, of West Australia, are- Australian.?. Two-others are women'-of India, one a Miss Lucy See, of Singapore, while the other, Mice Ondan K. Meenakshi, is of Malabar. The fifth lady student alone is English. 1 Thia paucity of numbers cannot be attributed to lack' of encouragement, as there are many instances in which women lawyers in England have been favoured. It is not long 1 since Miss Helena Normanton was appointed one of the prosecuting counsel to the British Treasury, while her analytical work on criminality some years ago was regarded as a classic. Further'studies, in which assistance was given by an Australian woman, Miss H. Simpson, also helped to establish her reputation in legal circles. A Quotation. It is not often that a man undertakes to write constructively about women’s dress; the remarks are usually either in the way of- fault-finding or sarcastic. But in a recent novel by George G- Foster, this amusing ..-summary of things fashionable appears:— “Ascot —rumours of long frocks. George had been indignant about that. Everyone knew how these things were started by manufacturers who desired to sell more material, and dressmakers, anxious to make recent models obsolete. Some of the would-be eminent act-’ ressps prevailed upon to wear them on the stage —for a consideration. Mannequins at Ascot,, posing as 'Society’ women for photographers—fashion editors, for another consideration, telling Suburbia that ‘everyone is wearing them.’ . Enthusiastic support from a certain type, of ecclesiastic and old women of both sexes. Yet, with all this campaign, long frocks would fail to stay, whereat George was glad.” Another Woman M.P. “The feature of the opening of the General Assembly of tho Newfoundland Legislature recently was the appearance of Lady Squires, the wife of the Prime Minister, Sir R. A. Squires, and the first woman member of the Newfoundland Parliament,’’ says a writer to the London Daily Mail. Soviet Women Spies. Three women of Russian nationality, believed to be Soviet agents, have left the country during the last few days, following inquiries into their credentials, says tlie London Daily Mail. The women landed in London, recently, and information which came into tho hands of Scotland Y'ard led to an investigation into the aetivites of two men in London who were trying to secure bridegrooms for tlie women at a nominal payment. It is believed that this attemnt to obtain British nationality for the women is but another device adopted by the Soviet Government to get spies into this country. Had the marriages taken place the bridegroom would have left his bride outside the register office and, possibly, never seen her again, an<i she, being the wife of a British citizen, would have a British domicile. Blowing Bubbles. .Princess Elizabeth bus become- a bubble-blowing enthusiast, says a London exchange. When some little friends visited her in her nursery recently they couldn’t understand why. the little Princess’ bubbles were so superior, so large, and so different from the pale, miserable ones . that- fade away as soon as they leave tho pipe bowl. Hers are rainbow-hued and go sailing sturdily across the room. Then the secret came out. Iler nurse mixes a few drops, of glycerine with tho soapy water, and that’s what makes them so much bigger and stronger. For bubbleblowing games Pg’incess Elizabeth wears a brightly-patterned rubber overall with a protective bib. Jean Forbes-Robertson. Lady Forbes-Robertson, in sn article in an English exchange, tells of the early acting of her daughter, ALss Jean Eoi'bes-Robertson. From her earliest childhood she mimicked people’s accents, gestures, and other inflexions of their voices. When'Jean was only five, her sister, Maxine,, aged seven, wrote a play called “William Wallace,” in which there wore eight characters. Maxine, herself, acted Wii.liajn Wallace, and Jean took the seven other parts. In one scene the loving •wife of Wiiliam in their Highland home was transformed in the next scene to a toothless old hag approaching William on the battlefield with newe of lfi<s wife’s death. WTicu sho was fifteen her mother, convinced of Jean’s 1111-, usual talent/ took her to South Africa. Sh • played the jiart of the older sister in “Paddy the Next Best Thing,” her mother playing “Paddy.” Frbm then her - acting developed on original Fines', for never did ehe consider tho conventional interpretation of any role as the most successful. Though much criticised at first for her methods of handling parte, she has now proved' herself to°b<> ono ' of England’s leading actresses, ■'■■■■ ''