Woman’s World

Wanganui Chronicle, 30 May 1949, Page 7

Woman’s World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Miss H. M. Rice, representative of “Childhaven,” Auckland, who has been in Wanganui during the past week as the guest of Mrs. J. McDougal, St. John’s Hill, will give a short talk on the social conditions and moral problems in New Zealand at the N.C.W. meeting tonight. Miss Rice leaves tomorrow for Wellington and later will go on to the South Island. Mrs. Mayerl, wife of Mr. Billy Mayerl, who was to have accompanied the English comedian, Mr. Stanley Holloway, on his tour of New Zealand, is seriously ill in a hotel in Aucxland. When Mr. and Mrs. Mayerl were leaving a tram in Sydney, the tram jerked lor ward and Mrs Mayerl fell and hurt her head. She is now suffering the effects of the injury she received. A producer with London and provincial experience, Mr. Kenneth Firth, aged 29, has been engaged by the Wellington Repertory Theatre (Inc.), and is expected to arrive in Wellington in a few weeks. One of his assignments will be to produce “Othello” in four or live months. He has been connected as an actor with the Norwich and Birmingham repertory companies and was in the London performance of “The Man Who Came to Dinner.” He has also been connected with the Old Vic, and has done film won:.

Fashion news from Sydney gives grey as the outstanding colour for suits, and feathers as the favourite trimming for hats. The fashion of the season is the grey suit. Made of fine worsted or garlkjrdine, suits are designed with slim skirts or with fullness drawn to tne back. Slit skirts are popular and some models have front buttonings the full length of the, skirt. Yellow in all tones from chamois to canary, daffodil and lime is the most generally favoured accessory colour, but tan and black are also worn. Hats for all smart occasions are smothered in feathers, coque leathers, ostrich plumes, phesant’s feathers and bird of paradise plumage. it is expected that the feathered hat will soon fall from favour and be succeeded by the close-fitting pixie hats with side drapes which are attractive to look at and comfortable to wear. Engagement HORROCKS CARRUTHERS.The engagement is announced oi Helen Joyce, only daughter of Mrs. B. Carruthers, Makirikiri and the late Mr. G. Carruthers, to Lindsay, young est son of Mr and Mrs L. G. Horrocks, Makirikiri.