THE SOCIAL WORLD

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1558, 4 March 1920, Page 26

THE SOCIAL WORLD

Announcements of engagements and contributions of interest relating to 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 In all cases the writer’s signature and address must be attached (not for publication).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.

Dr. and Mrs. Sydney Allen, Dunedin, are taking up residence in Auckland.

Miss Myrtle Barber returned to Wellington after an absence of some years in England.

Miss Jeanne Rapley has returned to Wellington after a lengthy stay in Australia.

Miss Laura Walker has returned to the Melbourne Conservatorium after a holiday in Auckland.

Mrs. Colbeck, of Auckland, is stay- ' ing with her sister, Mrs. Vivian Riddiford, at the Lower Hutt.

Mrs. T. M. Wilford, with Miss Wilford, will leave Wellington by the Tofua next month for San Francisco.

Miss Madeline Rossitter, the accomplished commedienne and dancer, who was here with Sydney James’s Company, is engaged to be married to Mr. W. Oily, a talented journalist.

Mrs Goring, of Hastings, has been elected as vice-president of the Dominion Council of the Women’s National Reserve.

Signor Scotti, the famous operatic artist and the idol of two continents, was recently married in London to Ina Claire, a well-known actress.

“As the result of a strike of milkmen in Liverpool,” said Mr. W. Grenfell in the Arbitration Court, Wellington, “600 children died.”

Mrs. and Miss Dorothy Kingsbury, Auckland, have just returned from a tour of Australia. Miss Kingsbury resumed her tuition classes on March 1, at “Mawake,” Princes Street.

Miss Anita Webster, Auckland, left by the Maheno for Sydney, where she will study the latest dancing methods under Miss Minnie Hooper, the wellknown ballet mistress.

The engagement is announced of Miss Betty Kenderdine, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. -F. J. Kenderdine, of Tahora Avenue, Remuera, Auckland, to Mr. F. W. Brabant, manager <of the Auckland branch of the Westport Coal Co.

The very latest idea for a bridal bouquet, hailing from Melbourne, is to have it decorated with feather fringe. Of course it must be chosen as regards colour and quality to harmonise with the flowers of which the bouquet is composed.

“Judging by the prices tailors charge, for ladies’ costumes,” said Mr. Justice . Stringer in the Arbitration Court in Wellington, “I should think they ought to be able to pay the extra charge.” The matter before the court was the Wellington tailors’ dispute.

Major and Mrs. R. A. Ramsay (Melbourne) have arrived in Christchurch on a visit to the latter’s relatives in Canterbury. Mrs. Ramsay was Miss Mabel Greenwood, of Teviotdale. She did a large amount of work in war nursing in France after her marriage.

The old Girls’ High School in Sydney was sold recently at auction for the sum of £124,000, the buyers being David Jones, Ltd. A very large number of city business men were present, and the bidding for the property very soon resolved itself into a duel between David Jones, Ltd., and the representative of J. and N. Tait, the well-known entrepreneurs, the latter having in their mind’s eye the erection of one of the most modern and elaborate playhouses in the Southern Hemisphere. The first bid was for £BO,OOO, and from that it passed rapidly on to £124,000.

The engagement is announced of Miss Grace Kirkcaldie, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs/ John Kirkcaldie, Thompson Street, Wellington, to Major A. B. Rose, son of the late Mr. Henry Rose, and Mrs. L. Rose, of London, late of Wellington.

Miss Kathleen Curtis, M.A. JNsZ.), M.Sc. (Lond.), has been appointed mycologist, or plant pathologist, to the Cawthron Institute, Nelson. Miss Curtis has had a distinguished career, and the trustees of the institute are stated to have been much pleased at being able to secure her services. Miss Curtis, who is a New Zealander, took first-class honours in botany, was senior university scholar in botany in 1915, was exhibition science scholar in botany, took the diploma of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, and was awarded the Huxley , memorial gold medal for research.

Mr. Justice Stringer and Mrs. Stringer went down to Christchurch to attend the marriage of their son, Mr. Cyril Stringer, to Miss Green, which took place on February 25. Dr. Bruce Stringer and his wife, who have just arrived from England, were also in Christchurch for the wedding.

The wedding was solemnised at St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral by the Rev. Archdeacon A. M. Johnson on February 20 of Miss Eileen Constance Graves, youngest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Ivatt Graves, of Wellington, and Mr. ■ Walter Leonard Tattle; seventh son of Mrs. M. A. and the late Mr. G. Tattle, also of Wellington.

A furrier was selling a coat to a woman customer. “Yes, ma’am,” he said, “I guarantee this to be genuine skunk fur, that will wear for years.” “But suppose I get it wet in the rain,” asked the woman; -“What effect will the water have on it? What will happen to it then? Won’t it spoil?” “Madam,” answered the furrier, “I have only one answer: Did you ever hear. of a skunk carrying an umbrella?”

Their Excellencies the GovernorGeneral and Countess of Liverpool, who have been in residence in Christchurch for some months, are paying a farewell visit to Dunedin shortly and will then return to Wellington. While in the Southern city they will be the guests of Dr. and Mrs. Lindo Ferguson.

“It would be- better if some women, instead of driving about in motor cars, trundled a baby carriage through the streets,” declared Father Vaughan, s.peaking at The Tuberculosis Conference in London. “It is a shocking thing,” he added, “that the divorce court is so busy, and that there are families who do not want to cooperate with God,i but who shake their fists in God’s face and say they can get. on without Him. I appeal to these families to play the game, and; if they are Christians, to play the Christian.”;

The organisers of the autumn art salon in Paris this year decided to. create new sections fox - dancing and fashions. On the first show day for fashions, long before the proper time, the room —hung with Oriental carpets —was filled with the leaders of Paris art and literature and club and draw-, ing-room figures. There was a lively chatter (says a French correspondent of the “Dailv Mail”) in the heated atmosphere, smelling of amber and carnations. All at once a yellow curtain was pulled aside. It revealed a scene thoroughly modern, with its purple hangings, its couches and seats covered with pretty cushions, its large oval mirrors, undex’ the softening light of lamps veiled in red and mauve. Beautiful women entered slowly and glided, undixlatingly across the stage, their ;arms stretched out snake-like or raised behind their necks in “the manner., of _ amphorae. They bent towards a mirror, adjusted a fold, smiled to the hall with the impersonal smile of idols, and disappeared. They were the mannequins of the big Paris fashion houses. They showed nothing very new.

New-York ladies have started wearing as earrings copies of their admirers’ service decorations.

The engagement is announced of Miss Gwen Beale, elder dauglxter of Mr. and Mrs. E. ,C. Beale, Auckland, to Mr. W. G. Wood, son of the late Mr. W. Wood and of Mrs. Wood, Napier.

Princess Patricia’s son . has been christened at the Chapel Royal. The King and Queen Alexandra and many Royal personages were present. The Prince of Wales was godfather, and gave his godson a two-handled silver goblet. The water used for the christening was personally drawn from the Jordan by the Duke of Connaught when the British crossed the river in the 1917 advance. Princess Patricia was married in February las.t year to the Hon. Alexander Ramsay, D. 5.0., and is now known as Lady Patricia Ramsay.

“The woman about town in Sydney now has her cigarette,” says a recent writer. “Some smoke heavily, others lightly; but nearly all smoke. Wife or widow or maid or matron, they all more or less indulge in the weed. The war has encouraged them tremendously. Those who did not smoke before the war commenced by buying cigarettes for the soldiers, and finished by buying them for themselves. Sydney tobacconists state that since 1914 the sale of cigarettes to women has quadrupled, and since the war had finished it showed signs of increasing rather than, diminishing. This is one reason — the increased demand — why men have now to pay more for their tobacco.”

An exchange gives particulars of the travelling arrangements being made for the Prince of Wales during his Dominion tour. The carriage used by His Excellency the GovernorGeneral when travelling will be used, but altered and refurnished. It will comprise a suite of three rooms, a lounge-drawing-room, a dining-room, and a bedroom, and there will be a kitchen on the train. The furniture and hangings are now being chosen,, the colouring of the lounge being carried out in Gobelin blue, and the dining-room is to be a replica of a Jacobean room. The bedroom is tp be as comfortable and as charming as possible;- In addition to the train, by which the Prince travels there will be two others, the luggage train, which travels ahead, and another following the Royal carriage reserved, for the country’s important personages.

Thamesites will be interested in the marriage, which took place in St. Paul’s, Wellington, on' February 25. of Miss Gladys Alfreda Smith, second' daughter of Mr. Alfred Smith, manager of the Bank of New Zealand, Wellington, and Mrs. Smith, to Mr. Archibald James Hawke, son of. the Hon. A. F. Hawke, M:L.C„ and Mrs. Hawke, of Invercargill. The ceremony was performed by the Ven. Archdeacon Johnson. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore white crepe de chine and georgette over pale pink, the train of georgette also being lined with pink. Sprays of orange blossoms fastened the tulle veil on the head, and a bouquet of white and pale pink flowers was carried. The bridesmaid was her sister, Miss Enid Smith, who wore a frock of maize coloured georgette, and a black velvet hat trimmed with touches of maize and pink. She carried a bouquet of mauve asters fastened with long streamers to match. Mr. Robert Hawke was best man. Mrs. Smith, the mother of the bride, wore black crepe de chine, trimmed with heliotrope and gold, and a black toque. Mrs. Hawke, the mother of the bridegroom, wore black georette over dull blue and a black hat with touches of blue and pink. After the ceremony Mr. and Mrs.' Smith held a reception at their home in Hobson Street.