FEMININE INTERESTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18520, 18 March 1930, Page 3

FEMININE INTERESTS

PERSONAL AND FASHION NOTES. Bride Takes Her Peke to the Church: Eleven o’clock in the morning is such an unusual hour for a smart wedding that the person who greeted a friend with “Good afternoon,” at the marriage of Miss Betty Boyd and Captain C. R. W. Maundsell may be excused such a natural error. The bridegroom belongs to the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, and the bride is the only daughter of the late Prebendary Leith Boyd and Mrs Boyd.

The Church of St. Barnabas in Pimlico Road, London, where the wedding took place, was hardly big enough to hold the many guests, ana the congregation in fact was one as numerous and distinguished as ever listened to the late Prebendary Boyd preach at St. Paul’s Knightsbride. “Bride or bridegroom” chanted the ushers, with unfailing monotony; but the bride’s guests were so numerous that soon her side of the church was full, and the remainder of the guests including Princess Marie Louise, had to occupy the opposite side. The Princess, who incidentally was dressed in a long coat of dark wine red, with a hat of the same shade, was a great friend of the bride’s father, ana sent her a beautiful sapphire brooch. The bridal car contained a footman m the shape of her Pekinese, who, with a large white bow round his neck, sat m dignified state beside the chauffeur. The bride, who is tall, dark and pretty, had no attendants. Her long classical gown was of rose-pink satin, with a train of old family lace, and her tulle veil also trimmed with Brussels lace, was held by orange blossoms. She carried no bouquet but had a small pochette. The bride was taken up the aisle by Admiral Sir Reginald Hall, and her mother gave her away. Mrs Boyd, in a coat of long black satin trimmed with sable over black silk, held a reception afterwards in Belgrave Square. Two notable women wearing green were Lady Domville, whose green coat was matched with a hat of beret type, and Miss Griselda Joynson-Hicks, who wore pale green velvet. Lady Violet Melville, who gave the bride a pearl and diamond brooch, was in black, and so was Lady Doverdale who brought her pretty daughter, the Hon. Aline Partington, with her. The Dowger Lady Hillingdon was well wrapped up in a moleskin coat, and others to be seen were Sir Trustram and Lady Eve and Lord and Lady Lamington, Lady Barrie, Lady Kathleen Le-poer-Trench, and Sir James Fowler.

Life at St. Moritz: The bar at the Palais, in St. Moritz, is the most fashionable rendezvous at cocktailtime. It is a strange scene full of colour. There are girls in smart afternoon frocks and shoes, others in ski-ing boots and red-brown or bluekhaki trousers with jerseys of every hue, girls in shorts with soft collars and ties, girls in blouses girls in jackets that match their trousers, and girls in tweeds that don’t match anything. And their headgear varies as much as their clothes. Those who create ski-ing fashions are at work, and the latest headwear for women can only be described as Mephistophlean. It is a close-fitting helmet hat, pointed in front ana coming down the middle of the forehead almost to between the eye» brows; the temples are left bare and the side peaks cover the ears. It fits closely at the back of the neck ROME A BLAZE OF LIGHTS.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, January 31. Few more splendid gatherings have been held in the long history of Rome than the reception given at the "Capitol by Prince Bancompagni, Governor of Rome, in honour of the wedding on the preceding day, of Princess Marie Jose and Crown Prince Humbert. The guests numbered more than 5,000. During the morning a great review took place on the parade ground of the Parioli, where all the armed froces of the State were represented. Three hundred aeroplanes circled at a height of from 600 to 3.000 feet, and did a variety of stunts, including one which consisted of making a series of circles (one plane above the other) in increasing sizes, in the shape of a great inverted cone. The Sovereigns and Princes assembled at the Capitol for the reception saw a remarkable pageant which took place below the Capitol among the ruins of the Roman Forum. It was an artistic revival of an ancient nuptial ceremony, which emerged from the darkness and gradually appeared between the rostrum, the Temple of Concord and the Basilica of Julia. There were plebeians and patricians, gladiators and slaves, praetors and barbarian Gauls. Boys and girls carrying flowers were preceded by lanternbearers and followed by high priests with the animals for the secrifice. Then came the litters, each borne by six colossal ebony Ethiopians, carrying the bride and bridegroom surrounded aim followed by their relations with hawthorn branches.

The procession which ended with groups of women holding lighted torches and nuptial presents and throwing flowers, approached the altar prepared for the sacrifice, and a bull was lain upon it and apparently slain. This marked the end of the marriage ceremony and the procession gradually faded away into the darkness. On that night Rome was a blaze of lights; for the Quirinal Square alone half a million candle power was used. A wonderful display of fireworks was held on the Janiculum Hill, and this together with the splendour of the illuminations of the Eternal City, will remain among the most abiding memories of those davs of festivitv. and magnificent pageantrv, and the brilliancy and grandeur of the celebrations of a truly great Royal wedding.