Woman's World

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 61, 15 March 1943, Page 2

Woman's World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Mrs. Hugh Graham, Keith Street, is visiting Mar.gE.weka. Miss Zeta Robb is spending a few days in Wellington. Miss Margery Hume, Wellington, is the guest ot Mrs. H. G. Horsley, Anzac Parade, Wanganui East. Mr. and Mrs. Don Wilson, Grey Street Extension, are leaving the Wanganui district this week to reside in a northern town. Mrs. B. Hoar, Gonvillc Avenue, has returned after a visit to Opunake. Guests to Wanganui for the Abbott —Horsley wedding which took place on Saturday included Mrs. J. Moulder (Nelson), Mrs. W. Duff (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. J. Abbott (Te Poi), Mr. and Mrs. C. Hume (Wellington), Mrs. Lamoni (Auckland), Miss Margery Hume (Wellington), Mr. Cedric Graham (Hamilton), Miss Mary Abbott (Auckland), and Messrs. C. A. Abbott and D. Abbott (Auckland). ill I HER AND THITHER. Dionne Quintuplets Help. ‘ The Dionne quintuplets recently visited Toronto, where they made six public appearances on Dehalf ol Canada’s third Victory Loan. They sang hi French and English, played on the organ they had taken with them, marched, and saluted. Fifty thousand persons attended the performances. Only once before have the quintuplets left their home, and that was in 1939, when they went to Toronto to meet the King and Queen during their tour ci’ Canada. t.M.C.A. Sunday Tea. The Y.M.C.A. Women’s Auxiliary were hostesses to a servicemens tea at the hostel last nighv. All branches of the services were represented, including a number of Americans, and a really tip-top evening was spent by all. Mrs. D. Strachan, after opening proceedings with humorous stories, presented an excellent programme, the artists being: Miss Julie Werry, Mr. J. Day, Mrs. Vollemaere, Male Choir quartet, Miss Marie Vollemaere. A Maori party gave a haka in honour of the American visitors. Miss Scott was the accompanist and Miss Vollemaere played for the community singing.

LONDON STAGE. ELHAM GIRL’S SUCCESS. The news from London that Miss Desiree Cooper is in the cast ol “Wild Rose,” the successful Jessie Matthews show at the Princess Theatre, has an element cl romantic interest for New Zealand, as Miss Cooper is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Cooper, who were formerly in business at Eltham. Mr. Cooper was extremely popular m amateur productions because of his gifts in acting and singing, especially in vaadeville turns. It is from him that his daughter inherits her histrionic talent, while Irom her mother, who had unusual beauty, she no doubt derives hei good looks. Evon as a little girl Miss Cooper showed exceptional ability as a dancer, and while employed as a “Nippy” at one ot Lyons' famous tea-houses she won a beauty contest from some thousands of competitors. The result was a stage engagement at the Theatre.