SOCIAL NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20108, 15 May 1935, Page 12

SOCIAL NOTES

Miss P. McLachlan, Dunedin, is a Sliest at the Empire. Miss J. Crust is spending a holiday in Dunedin. Dr. Walton Bremner and his wife, Dr. Gladys Bremner. Christchurch, ire staying at the Grosvenor. Miss Dunkley, Christchurch, is the guest of Miss Enid Haselden, Bank of New South Wales. Among those “capped” at Canterbury College last week was Margaret Black Campbell, B.A. Guests at the Balmoral include Mrs and Miss Fife (Christchurch), and Mr G. H. Anderson (Dunedin). Miss Nancy Paterson, Christchurch, is staying with Miss Grant, Grant’s Road. Mrs Webb, who was the guest of her daughter, Mrs F. G. M. Raymond, Beverley Road, returned yesterday to Christchurch. Miss Ruth Barker, “Rocky Ridges,” Geraldine, has returned home after a short visit to Mrs C. A. Paterson, Sefton Street. Mrs H. Polhill and Miss Kitty Polhill, who for many years have lived at Rotherham, will leave shortly to take up residence at Geraldine. The marriage took place at Wellington yesterday of Wing-Commander T. M. Wilkes, Director of Air Services, and Mrs Gladys Hodges. Mr and Mrs Weston Wacher. Christchurch, are staying with Mrs T. Oxford, Beverley Road, for the marriage of Miss Marion Oxford and Mr Douglas Gane, which takes place to-day at Chalmers Church. A young New Zealand singer. Miss Andri Bevin, appeared last week, for the first time in Sydney, at the Conservatorium Hall. Born in Wellington, she has studied in London under Ann Williams and other teachers; and has sung in Rome. A very enjoyable dinner party was given by Mrs Neville Moore at her home in Otipua Road on Monday night, in honour of Miss Marion Oxford, whose marriage takes place today. Mrs Moore wore a frock of flame coloured velvet and the guest of honour wore a black velvet frock relieved with silver lame. Mr and Mrs Gane and Miss Betty Gane. Blenheim. Mr and Mrs Don Newton, Wellington, Mr and Mrs Moggridge. Blenheim, Dr. and Mrs Whetter, Christchurch, Miss Myrtle Carty and Mr Bruce Gane, North ; Island, will be visitors to Timaru for the Gane-Oxford wedding which takes place to-day. Monster jewellery, which once would undoubtedly have been termed monstrosity, is still coming in new and yet newer designs. The one over which New York has gone quite mad is of large square stones —colours to please yourself—set in solid crystal. Bracelets ' are so heavy that they are made flat-faced, with the ornamentation on top and shaped oval so that they do not slip round and hide the “pretty” side. The accompanying ring matches, and so do dress clips if they are worn. The American woman seems to delight in rings that are so ponderous that it would seem that her finger was barely strong enough to support the weight; but the appearance is deceptive, for they are made of light composition, and are all bark and no bite, as it were. Faces, as well as figures, frocks and furniture, have gone modem, states a writer in the London “Daily Telegraph.” You can see this strikingly exampled if you consider the type of face being chosen for the model of the fashionable dress designer and the modern artistic photographer. Particularly is this true in the direction of fashion photography. The pretty face has disappeared, not only from the chocolate boxes but from existence. Bone formation is what counts most to-day. It is as if, following in the footsteps of streamline frocks and furniture devoid of every scrap of unnecessary ornament, faces must rely solely on the structural formation for their interest. Faces are, as it were, shorn of unnecessary detail. The model’s hair, if not reduced to a minimum by skilful thinning and moulding to the shape of the head, is trained well away from the face in chiselled waves or a classic cluster of curls or knot. Artistic untidiness is out of date. The model of to-day has a look of race, breeding, and an expression of extreme assurance and sophistication. She would be horrified if an old-time photographer asked her to “look pleasant.” Nevertheless her austerity has an allure of its own exceeding her predecessor’s coy sweetness.