HITHER AND THITHER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 306, 31 December 1935, Page 2

HITHER AND THITHER

New Year’s Eve Cabaret. Arrangements have been made for a gala night cabaret at the Elrick Lounge on New Year’s Eve and for which a special orchestra has been engaged. The function is timed for 8.30 p.m. Afternoon Tea. Last week the members of the Aramoho Centre Women’s Institute Drama Circle were entertained by the convener, Mrs. I. Butcher. The function was held at the D.1.C., where a dainty afternoon tea was provided, the table decorations being particularly beautiful. Occasion was taken to present Mrs. Butcher with a charming summer pochette. Other ladies present were: Misses Cole, Young, Smith, Rooke; Mesdames Litchfield, Brine. Moosman, Harrowby, Shepherd, Adams and Doidge.

“London Calling.’’ A mother in London spoke to three members of her family in Australia and New Zealand simultaneously by wireless on December 19, states the Sydney Morning Herald. Lady Buckleton arranged the call in London to her son, Mr. John Buckleton, of Wellington, New Zealand, and her daughters, Mrs. H. H. Wright, of Sydney, and Mrs. Alan Walker, of Waikato, New Zealand. Each of the recipients of the call heard Lady Buckleton perfectly, as if she had been telephoning from the same town, and responded in their turn.

Silver Wedding. Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Easton, Springvale, celebrated their silver wedding on Christmas Day, when they were the recipients of many gifts from relatives and friends in New Zealand and England. Messages of congratulations were received from friends and relatives unable to be present. Mr. and Mrs. Easton were married at St. Peter’s Church, Tottenham, London, on Christmas Day, 1910. They left London for New Zealand in February, 1922.

A Glass Dinner Table. “The latest achievement of the manufacturers is a glass dinner table. I saw it the other day and thought it most attractive,” writes a London correspondent.- “It has none of the ‘spindly’ look of smaller glass tables, but rested on heavy glass pedestals at either end and had a deep glass table top. Such a table, one felt, would make a perfect setting for a successful dinner party. The smaller glass coffee and tea tables to be seen just now are also rather charming. They have rims of chromium and are of a comfortable low size to go beside one’s chair. A coffee table may be set with a glass coffee service, jn which the glass cups are banded with narrow lines of platinum op colour. For tea tables there are tea sets in which even the teapot and milk jug are of glass.”

Notable Tourists. The arrival of the Orama was notable for the number of distinguished and interesting passengers aboard, including the Duquesa de Dato, a Spanish noblewoman, who is voyaging round the world. Baroness Burton, an English Peeress in her own right, who with her husband, Major W. E. Melies, is a guest at Government House, Sydney, and Mme. F. Kveton, wife of the new Consul-General for Czechoslovakia. Baroness Burton and her husband have come to New Zealand for the troutfishing, as the former is an enthusiastic sportswoman. At her home, Rangmore, Burton-on-Trenth, England, she carries out her chief hobby, the breeding of dogs mostly Keeschounds (Dutch barge dogs) and Cairn terriers. The estate is large, and Baroness Burton herself takes a part in the work of running such an extensive establishment. In this she has the assistance of three kennel maids. The Rangmore dogs are shown all over England, and Baroness Burton herself often acts as a judge at dog shows. She also has two estates in Scotland, Red Castle, in Rosshire, and Dochfour, in Invernesshire, which she visits frequently during the grouse and pheasant shooting seasons. She is an expert shot. Baroness Burton and her husband have a London establishment at 6 Grosvenor Square. Church and Stage. A girl who is the niece of the Archbishop of York and granddaughter of the Archbishop of Canterbury is working as assistant stage manager at the Old Vic, and also playing a small part in “Peer Gynt.” But instead of opposition from her clerical relatives at her choice of a stage carreer, she meets with approval (says a writer in The Queen). “My uncle, the Archbishop of York, has often expressed his approval of my present job,” she said, “and he is coming to see me at the theatre during the present season.” Miss Temple is keenly enthusiastic about the theatre, and is determined to make a success in this branch of art. She has graduated from the ranks of the Old Vic students to her present post. She prefers acting to stage managing, but she realises that there are more openings as stage managers than in the acting side, which is so overcrowded. Her duties at present are to supervise the scene shifting, preside at the switchboard for the stage lighting effects, and provide most of the “noises off.”