THE SOCIAL WORLD

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1598, 9 December 1920, Page 30

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 In all cases the writer’s signature and address must be attached (not for publication).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. Coats, who left Waipukurau for Scotland last year, returned to the Dominion by the lonic. * * * * Mr. and Mrs. Ashley Hunter have ' left Auckland on a visit to Napier and Wellington. « # * * Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Greenwood, Christchurch, returned from Sydney by the Manuka. They have just made a tour of Queensland, having travelled 3000 miles. * # * * Mrs. George .Wright, Miss Etta Wright and Miss Grove returned to Auckland by the Tahiti from Australia. • * * * The committee of the Wellington Golf Club has decided to hold a golf tournament during the Christmas holidays. * * * The engagement has been announced of Miss Jeannie Marriner, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Marriner, Ridings Road, Remuera, to Mr. J. H. Gosset, of Waimatenui,. Northern Wairoa. * * • The engagement is announced of Miss Madge Smith, daughter of Mr. R. W. Smith, M.P. for Taihape, to Mr. White Batley, younger son of the late Mr. R. T. Batley, of Moawhango. The . marriage is to take place in January. « * * « Mrs. Dansey, formerly of Welling ton, and now of Sydney, arrived by the Ulimaroa on a visit to relatives in New Zealand, after an absence of ten years 4 * * * * Prior to his departure from Wellington, en route for England, Sir Keith Smith was entertained at the Midland Hotel by a number of exmembers of the A.I.F. Mrs. F. M. Norton was hostess for the occasion. * * ♦ » The engagement is announced of Miss Sylvia Mayne, second daughter of the Very Rev. Dean and Mrs. Mayne, Napier, to Mr. Ewen McLaren, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. McLaren, of Christchurch. * * * Lady Conan Doyle did not accompany her husband on his New Zealand tour, but, with her three children, will remain in Australia during his absence. She will spend part of the time at the Blue Mountains. * * * » « Lady Rodwell, wife of the Governor of Fiji, who has been visiting New Zealand, left Auckland by the Talune on her return home. w ♦ ♦ Mr. C. F. Kelly, assistant master of the School of Art, Christchurch, has been granted by the Board of Governors of Canterbury College twelve months’ leave of absence, to enable, him to visit Europe. * * * * A smart wedding took place at St. Mary’s pro-Cathedral, Auckland, on Wednesday, November 24, when Miss Margery Thomas, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Thomas, of St. Stephen’s Avenue, Parnell, was married to Mr. Hugh Hanna, eldest son of Mr. A. Hanna and the late Mrs. Hanna, of Victoria Avenue, Remuera, the Rev. Robson officiating. The church was beautifully decorated with white lilies and pale pink roses. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a graceful gown of deep cream charmeuse, made en princesse, the lower part of the skirt caught with golden motifs. A square-cut train of gold tissue, lined with faint pink georgette, hung from the shoulders, and a coronet of gold held the lace veil in place. A sheaf of lilies was carried. The bridesmaids, Miss Nancye Hanna and Miss Neroli Knight, wore frocks of eau de nil taffeta, and black lace hats. Mr. Seymour Colbeck was best man, and Mr. Sam Hanna groomsman.

Miss Evadne Goodson, Wellington, has left on a holiday, trip to Sydney and Melbourne. e $ * « Mrs. and Miss Theomin, Dunedin, spent some days in Auckland on their return from a visit to Australia. * ♦ * * The engagement is announced in a Napier paper of Miss Beryl Cato, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Cato, of Greenmeadows Hill, Hawke’s Bay, and Dr. Falconer Brown, of Auckland, son of Mrs. Blezard Brown, also of Auckland. • » * « SI - Mi' J.. J. Virgo, honarary world’s representative of the Y.M.C.A., was married in England in October to Miss Emmeline D. Aston, only daughter of the Rev. F. Aston and Mrs. Aston, formerly of Macclesfield. Mr. Virgo is a South Australian. * jfc * * The death is announced from London of. Mr. William Baker, head of Dr. Barnardo’s Homes. He gave up a lucrative practice as a barrister when the founder died in 1905, and took control of the homes. * ♦ » * Miss Kathleen M. Cadell, of Sydney, has been appointed by the Dunedin Hospital Board masseuse and tutor in the training school of mas"sage and physiotherapy. There were seven applications for the position, which carries a salary of £3OO. Ht *■ * * Miss Evelyn Thomas, Christchurch, is leaving for England by the Tainui, and will spend some time with her aunt and uncle, Lord and Lady Strathspey; in London, returning to New Zealand via Singapore. * * * * The New Zealand Swimming Association has been advised that Miss Bleibtrey (America), the Olympic champion, will tour the Dominion in January, if financial arrangements can be made. * » * * The marriage of Miss Daphne McIntyre, formerly of Christchurch, to Mr. Michael Shathin, of Moscow, took place at the Russian Consulate in Yokahama on October 19. Mr. Shathin is connected with “The Japan Advertiser,” the largest foreign newspaper published in the Far East, and for the time being they will live in Tokio, Japan. The wedding took place last month at St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Auckland, of Miss Rosa Hall-Jones, daughter of Sir William and Lady Hall-Jones, of Burnell Avenue, Wellington, to Mr. William E. Brown, of Belmont, Wellington. The Rev. Archdeacon Murray performed the ceremony, and the bride was given away by her father. The marriage was very quiet, there being no bridesmaid or groomsman, and only the bride’s parents were present. Afterwards Lady Hall-Jones entertained the wedding party at lunch at the Grand Hotel, and later Mr. and Mrs. Brown left for Rotorua. They left last Thursday for a trip to Sydney by the Riverina. * « * Mr. Saxon W. B. Foster, late private secretary to the Hon. Dr. Pomare, accompanied by his wife, left last week for Raratonga, where Mr. Foster will take over the duties of private secretary to the Administration, Cook Islands Group. « « * » Mr. Ernest H. Salmon, manager of the Dunedin branch of H. E. Partridge and Co. (Auckland), was married on November 24 to Miss Katherine Salter, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. Salter, of Castle Street, Dunedin. The ceremony was performed by the Very Rev. Father J. Coffey in St. Joseph’s Cathedral. The bride, who was tastefully dressed, was given away by her father. Mr. Joseph V. Salmon was best man and Miss Hazel Salmon was bridesmaid. The breakfast was held at the Central Fire Station ,and was attended by a, large number of guests. Mr. Salmon is the third son of Mr. J. J. Salmon, deputy-superintendent of the Dunedin City Fire Brigade, and saw considerable active service during the war.

His Excellency Viscount Jellicoe has consented to become patron of the Wellington Caledonian Society. & # * $ Sir William Hall-Jones and Lady Hall-Jones were in Auckland last week, staying at the Grand Hotel. * * * ❖ Mr. Leo Myers, of Auckland, returned to New Zealand by the lonic, after eight years’ absence. * * * * Mr. A. T. Bate has returned to Wellington after an absence of two years much improved in health. * « « * For an artistic and . comprehensive selection of views, not to mention a diversity of bright reading matter, the Christmas issue of the “Sporting and Dramatic Review” stands unrivalled. It is printed on art paper, the reproductions being operated in two colours. The frontespiece, an attractive design in pastille blue, green and henna, is of special feminine interest. * $ * * Lieut. George Buckley, conductor of the Queen Alexandra Band, Wanganui, has been chosen as adjudicator for the North Island Band Contest, to be held at Dannevirke on February 15 to 18. ! * * ♦ ♦ Two scholarships have been awarded as follows by the Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee: —For 1920, Mr. W. T. J. Airey (Auckland); for 1921, Mr. H. J. Ryburn (Otago). Both of the successful candidates are returned soldiers. V * If » Mr. James Morton has been appointed inspector of the South British Insurance Company. Mr. Morton returned recently from India, where during the last two years he has been acting-manager of the company’s Bombay and Calcutta branches. Se * ♦ * On the .morning of October 5, at St. Philip’s Church, Earl’s Court, London, Dr. Sydney Hartley Hay, of Dunedin, late captain, N.Z.M.C., was married to Josephine Trevelyan Turner, daughter of Mrs. Turner, of Earl’s Court Gardens, and a granddaughter of the late Mr. William Buckingham, of Northcote Manor, North Devon, and 12 Southernhay, Exeter. Dr. and Mrs. Hay are coming out to New Zealand about the beginning of the New Year. * * * « “I fancy the question of the Prince of Wales’ marriage is likely to come up in the course of the coming winter,” writes the London . correspondent of the Dunedin “Star.” “Hitherto, very sensibly, the King and Queen have left the Prince alone in thisinatter, and, indeed, there is no reason to press for an early match. On the other haiid, the Royal rule in these matters, which is to marry very early, is a hard one to break, and I should not be surprised if the Prince’s engagement was announced before he goes to India next year, even if th© marriage does not take place till after his return. There are many reasons for believing that the future Princess will be an Englishwoman. Meanwhile, York House will be the centre of many bachelor parties this winter, when the Prince is not away hunting, which he means to do as much as he can. I fancy the voyage has done him more good than it was dared to hope for, and that he has completely recovered from his severe Australian experiences.” *'O * * * A genuine attempt to cater for children only is being made in Wellington at the present time. A theatre has been specially set apart for special children’s matinees, the programmes for which are selected by a committee of ladies representing the Kindergarten Association, National Council of Women, Wellington Girls’ College, and other bodies. These ladies have themselves viewed and chosen the picture to be submitted, with the object of amusing and instructing the younger generation with subjects suitable for their years.

A Gentlewoman's Aid Society exists in Melbourne, and has been going on for 26 years. It has accomplished a splendid work, and has helped a class of people which suffers sorely in silence, as a rule. There are one hundred members of this society, several of them being over eighty years of age. * * * * Mr. Philpot Crowther, who took a leading pait in organising the New South Wales Fruitgrowers’ Association, has left for Rotorua and will afterwards visit the South Island. * * * ♦ Quite a reliable weather-teller is to be found on the breakfast table. When you drop the lumps of sugar into the cup of tea or coffee, up comes a cluster of bubbles. Now, the manner in which these behave will give an indication of the conditions for the day. If the bubbles remain in the centre of the cup, one may be sure that rain is not coming. When these are very much heaped up, a clear sky and plenty of sunshine is likely. Should the bubbles spread all over the surface of the liquid, the weather is likely to be uncertain; showers may be expected with bright intervals. If the bubbles adhere to the sides of the cup it is a bad sign. Rain, and very likely wind, too, is coming. In the winter such a grouping of the bubbles signifies the approach of heavy snow. # ajc A wedding of particular interest to New Zealanders took place at St. Simon’s Church, Upper Chelsea, on October Ist, the bridegroom being Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Powell Braithwaite, C. 8., D. 5.0., M.C., and the bride being Lady Plunket, widow of the sth Baron Plunket, and youngest daughter of the first Marquess of Dufferin and Ava. The ceremony took place at 9.30 a.m., and the bride was given away by her son, Lord Plunket. She wore a draped dress of grey panne velvet, bordered with a deep hem of mauve, and a grey velvet toque trimmed with a. mauve and pink ostrich feather and draped with a grey lace veil. Her bouquet was of magenta carnations. The bride’s youngest daughter, the Hon. Joyce Plunket, accompanied her mother. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. W. M. Selwyn, vicar of St. Simon’s, and Major Montagu was best man. Lieut.-Colonel Braithwaite was on the late Lord Plunket’s staff when he was GovernorGeneral of New Zealand. • # * * Are the days of the big society wedding functions doomed? (writes the New York correspondent of the London “Daily Chronicle” on August 7.) It would certainly seem so, for there has been quite an epidemic of elopements among the younger set of the fashionable world. One of the latest elopements is that of the 18-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George J. Gould and the 20-year-old Carroll Wainwright, a Yale undergraduate. The odd part about the elopement was that the parents of the runaways expressed themselves delighted when they received the news from their offspring by telegram, so that there was on the face of it really no necessity for the lovers to elope. The bridegroom’s explanation to the reporters was that they had eloped to avert a tragedy—that they would have been separated, for the whole summer. An amusing feature of the affair is the fact that Miss Gould, on the morning she was to meet her young Lochinvar, drove down town with her father, who was, of course, all unconscious of her pending flight, and then went on to the trysting place. The couple then hurried to the railway station and took train for Philadelphia. On reaching there they were refused a license on account of the bride’s youth. Nothing daunted, however, they hired an automobile and drove 70 miles to Elkington, Md., the Gretna Green of that State, and had no difficulty in getting a clergyman to tie the knot. Thus did Miss Gould follow in her parents’ footsteps,’for George J. Gould and the beautiful Edith Kingdom also made a runaway marriage.

It is stated that Kubelik, the celebrated violinist, is about to start a music-printing enterprise in Prague.

If you are looking for an acceptable gift for a friend, try the Christmas Number of the “Sporting and Dramatic Review.” The price is only Is. 6d., and you get your money fourfold in the profusion of entrancing photographs depicting scenes of picturesque interest all over New Zealand, Australia and the Islands.

An English writer comments on the popularity of the name'Mary, and says: “I don’t suppose since the beginning of Christendom there were ever so many Marys as to-day.” Probably the popular Queen and Princess who bear the name have something to do with the fashion. In New Zealand more “odd” names seem to be favoured, and on reading lists of school prizes, and so on, names are seen that have either been coined by the parents to suit occasions, or must have been dug out of remote classics or from folk-stories of foreign countries. “Melva” is a name coined, because the father’s first name was Melville, and it was feminised to suit a baby girl. Another parent called the child “Stace” to embody the initials of five persons who all expected to have the little one named after them individually. Yet another quaint happening was when there were two affectionate grandmothers and one was Grace and the other Jane. The first daughter to arrive was called Grace Jane, and when number two appeared she was named Jane Grace; so presumably both the old ladies were happy in having had first consideration.

“One cannot live in London without observing the extraordinary prevalence of childish superstitions about numbers, days of the week, and so forth,” said Dean Inge, preaching at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. “God is not the kind of person,” he added, “to send some dire calamity for dining one of 13, or for walking under a ladder, or for getting married in May.” A newspaperman who went in search of the superstitious found them in abundance. Women appear to be rather more superstitious than men, and an experienced family man gave the following two as the favourite feminine beliefs: Boots must never on any account be placed upon a table; a woman must always pour out the tea if a man (even her husband) is present. “Don’t ask me the’ reasons,” he begged. “They are among the things which every woman, but no man,- knows.” A girl, who is one of a big family, when first questioned, said that “sensible girls have no superstitions.” Afterwards, however, she confessed that no woman dare pass a pin on the ground without picking it up, lest bad luck come upon her. She must be very careful to pick it up head first. The fashionable fetish among men is undoubtedly the one about not lighting three cigarettes from one match. A majority of males are superstitious in regard to this, though no two agree as to the origin of the belief. Some say it started at the time of the riiatch shortage, others that it began during the Boer War—when to keep a match burning long enough to light three cigarettes gave a sniper a chance—and others that the Canadians brought it over during the Great War, the superstition being rife among lumbermen.