THE SOCIAL WORLD

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1417, 21 June 1917, Page 26

THE SOCIAL WORLD

Announcements of engagements and contributions of interest relating >o weddings and social gatherings should be sent to Lady Editor, “Sporting and Dramatic Review” Office, Auckland. In all cases the writer’s signature and address must be attached (not for publication). Photographs of wedding groups will be reproduced by arrangement.

Iler Excellency the Countess of Liverpool opened a “spinnery” in Wellington last week, established in connect ons with the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Navy League. Mrs. Steele has kindly given up a room of her house in Willis Street for the whirr of the wheels.

Miss Clifford, daughter of Sir George and Lady Clifford, is assisting at the Anzac Canteen, London.

Mrs. W. S. Bean, Canterbury, i,; visiting her mother. Mrs. Seddon, at Golder’s Hill, Wellington.

Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Rutherford, of “Parnassus,” North Canterbury, are making a trip to Sydney.

Mrs. Murdoch Anderson has ar rived in Auckland from South Africa, and is spending a short time here before leav.ng for Rotorua.

Mrs. Bullock, of Auckland, is staying in Wellington during the session.

Mr. and Mrs. Tod-Smith (Auckland) have been staying with Mrs. TodSmith, senr., Cashmere Hills.

Lord Henry Bentinck, M.P., urges the claims of women munition workers to medals at the end of the war.

“She: “Are they so awfully rich?” He: “Rich? Why, woman, she uses newspapers to cover her pantry shelves.” —“New York Judge.”

Miss W nifred A. Baylis, of Kawa kawa. North Auckland, has; left fo’ Sydney en route to Bangalore, India.

Mrs. Arthur Elworthy has returned to Canterbury after a visit to the North Island.

Mr. and Mrs. R. Fenwick have returned to Auckland after a visit to Christchurch.

Mrs. Cranston, of Fiji, is on a visit to New Zealand.

Miss Else Hargreaves, Stratton Street, Riccarton, has gone to spend the winter in Rotorua. • • •

A branch of Hie New Zealand Nurses’ Memorial Fund has been formed in Wanganui with Mrs. C. E Mackay, the Mayoress, as pres.dent.

M'ss I. A. Wilkinson has been appointed to succeed Mr. Trainer (now in camp) on the staff ot the Masterton District High School.

The- member ", of the Pioneer Club, Wellington, are using their energies to obtain a motor ambulance for the use of Dr. Agnes Bennett’s Servian patients. It is hoped to raise £3;>i).

Matron B. Nurse, of the New Zealand Army Nursing Service, has returned to the Dominion on six month"? furlough. At present she is v siting her sister, Mrs. E Russell, Dunedin.

Mrs. T. H. Lowry, of Okawa, Hawke’s Bay, organised a big effort in Napier on Saturday week for the French Red Cross with substantial results.

Miss Clifford, of Lepperton, is in receipt of an offer of three years' free tuition at the Royal College of Music in London. M'ss Clifford secured the gold medal for the whole of New Zealand in her section at the exam nation held last October. ♦ * *

At St. Barnabas’ Church, Christchurch Mrs. Richmond was quietly married to Mr. V. G. Day, Stipendiary Magistrate at Timaru. Canon Hamilton performed the ceremony. Mrs. Richmond wore a handsome oyster velour costume, a black velvet hat and grey furs.

Mrs. D. Mitchell, of Devonport. Auckland and her sister, Miss Ivy Wynyard, are at present spending a hoi day in Scotland. Recent letters from the travellers state that they are both well and charmed with the j-.lai es they are visiting.

The beautiful estate of Nainai, Lower Hutt, formerly occupied by the la:e Hon. John Duthie, M.L.C., and later purchased by Mr. W. 11. George, has been acquired by the Sisters of Mercy, Hill Street, Wellington, as a Catholic hoys’ school. Mr. and Mrs. George Dunn, of Dunedin. celebrated their golden wedding on June 7. Amongst messages received from old friends was a congratulatory cablegram from their youngest son, who is at present on the French battle front. The death took place in Christchurch last week of Mrs'. Albert ('ujtts. The deceased lady was a member of Pollard’s Juvenile Opera Company, and will be remembered by theatre-goers as Little Eily O’Sullivan, daughter of Mr. W. O’Sullivan, who was treasurer of the company. The engagement s announced in the Christchurch “Sun” of Miss Katherine Macfarlane, only daughter of the late Mr. Malcolm Macfarlane, of Coldstream, Rangiora, to Mr. Llewellyn Young, of Brookfields, Winchester, South Canterbury.

Lord Beauchamp, open ng an Economy Exhibition at Gloucester recently, said that among many interesting exhibits was one described as “Frocks for the twms from Uncle’s pyjamas.” He hoped that the child who sent this exhibit would get the prize it deserved.

Madame Melba celebrated her 52nd birthday in Melbourne on May 19 last. She received many cable messages and telegrams from oversea and Australia. Many gifts and floral offerings were presented. Among the many gifts presented to her was a beautiful basket of wallflowers, violets and orchids, from the staff anc pupils of the Conservatorium.

News has just been received in Lyttelton of the wedding in England of Miss Myrtle Harris, elder daugb ter of Captain Harris, of Lyttelton, to Commander R. M. Porter, R.N.R.. late of H.M.S. Barham. The wedding took place on February 27, at St. Agnes’ Church, Plymouth. Miss Harris left Lyttelton last January for England, and the wedding took place soon after she reached her destin ation.

“If it does not overtax the.r strength, no work comes amiss to women,” said an expert engineer, interviewed at Home recently. “In one place a woman of distinguished family worked 54 hours a week on bombs, beginning at 7 a.m. Her coachman worked in the same factory. Women have done marvellous work, as the exh bit on shows.”

The engagement is announced of Miss Betty Kenderdine, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Kenderdine, of Remuera, to Mr. O. K. Steele, son of the late Rev. John Steele, M.A., of Melbourne, and Mrs. Nugent Steele, London, and nephew of Colonel H. H. Johnston, C. 8., R.A.M.C., Glasgow.

The engagement is announced of Dr. B. C. Tennant, M. 8., R.A.M.C , London, and formerly of T.rnaru, son of the late Rev. B. C. Tennant, of Martinborough, to Mrss Daisy Skar ratt, 3, Haus Crescent, London younger daughter of the late Mr. Charles Skarratt, says the Christchurch “Sun.”

A military wedding took place in St. Peter’s Church, Wellington, on June 8, when Lieutenant Corneille H. de Mey-d’Alkemade, of the Gth Wellington Mounted Regiment, youngest son of Mr. J. J. de Mey-d’Alkemade, late Director of Physical Training in New Zealand, was married to Miss Ann Gibson, only daughter of Mr. W.

Gibson, of “Rockfield,” K.witea. Miss Kathleen Cobbe, of Feilding, was bridesmaid. Lieutenant 11. J. Marshall and Lieutenant J. T. Simpson, of the 30th Reinforcements, attenedd the bridegroom. A reception was held at the Midland Hotel, Mrs. Perry, aunt of the bride, acting as hostess. The bridegroom left New Zealand with the Main Expeditionary Force, and had been for two years on active service before being invalided home.

Captain Bernard R. Lankshear, N.Z.E.F., son of Mr. W. J. Lankshear, of Wellington, was married in Wellington on June 4 to Miss Amy Gabrielle Sellars, sixth daughter of Mr. George J. Sellars, late of Christchurch, but now of Wellington. Capt. Lankshear has only recently returned to New Zealand from active service in Samoa, Egypt, and France, being invalided from the latter country through shell-shock.

At All Saints’ Church, Palmerston North, on June 2nd, Mr. Arthur E. M. Rhind, eldest son of the late Mr. E. Rh nd, Wellington, and Mrs. Rhind, Battersea Park, London, was married to Miss Mary Mcßae, eldest daughter of Mr. F. S. Mcßae, Palmerston North.

The bride wore a cream tailored coat frock and black velvet hat and ermine furs. She carried a pretty pale pink and cream spray of flowers and siivermouiued prayer-book. Mr. Allen Burnes, of Wellington, who, with the bridegroom, has recently returned from the front, was best man. Later in the afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Rhind left for Napier and Rotorua, en route io Auckland, their future home.

The matron (Miss Stott) and nursing staff of the Wellington Hospital gave a very enjoyable “At Home” as a welcome to Dr. Barclay and his bride. Mrs. Barclay was presented by the senior nurse with a bouquet of violets and maidenha r fern. Among the guests who were invited were Miss Payne, Miss H. Maclean, resident and • members of the honorary staff of the hospital and their wives.

“So wide is the scope of women’s labour,” said Mr. Ke’.lawav, M.P., speaking at the Royal Colonial Institute, Eng., recently, “that a prominent engineer has expressed his firm conviction that, given two more years of war, he would undertake to build a battleship from keel to aerial entirely by woman labour. We have assembled in this hail examples of some of the most technical processes in engineering produced entirely by women who, eighteen month", ago, knew no more about eng neering than the average man does about nursing a baby.”

The wife who forgives her husband for one flirtation is a diplomat; the wife who forgives him twice is an optimist; the wife who forgives him three times is a saint; and the wife who forgives h m any oftener is a lunatic. —Helen Rowland.

The following incident is rather interesting m connect'on with Miss Kathlene MacDonell’s first appearance as Judy Abbott in “Daddy Long Legs.” Amongst the flowers sent to Her Majesty's Theatre, in Sydney, recently (when Miss MacDonell was witnessing a performance at that theatre), was a bouquet from a girl, who sa d she would be in the gallery of the Criterion Theatre the first n.ght of her appearance. Unfortunately Miss MacDonell lost the card attached to the flowers. During the week she decided to present every lady in the gallery (the first night of “Daddy Long Legs”) with a carton of chocolates. “In this way,” she sad, “I am sure to reach my little friend. Besides I want to show that I am really grateful for the kind reception given me on my arrival.”

It may not be generally known that Miss Jean Webster, who wrote “Daddy Long Legs,” was a niece of Mark Twain. She died shortly after she dramatised the play. It appears to be the general verdict that it is a charming stage story, and the audiences that have attended it in Sydney are exceptionally warm in their appreciation. One paper said “go and see it, and you will see something of romance in life. It does not matter that things do not turn out that way in real life, but it would be very nice if they did.” Nothing terrible occurs in the play; there is nothing to upset the most fastidious ears; in fact, the most important thing that happens is that a man falls in love with a woman—a thing that has frequently happened before and is likely to occasionally happen again. And yet the play from beginning to end holds and enchants and makes more ambitious production pale into insignificance.