SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 570, 27 July 1909, Page 3

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

! Nellie Stewart. Our Auckland correspondent writes—Miss Nelho Stewart, w'ho arrived m Auckland on Sunday, states that her American experiences have been invigorating,'especially at Chicago , This was said to be a very hard place to I please, but' she ha.dinot,foilnd it so,, bejond the tact people there were keenly critical ''Australia, particularly Melbourne," I Miss Stewart added, "is becoming more aqd 1 more v like Amenra In Australia and f New I Zealand jou have highly intelligent audi--1 enoes, and I feel that you v should nave rnidro I of the better class of play There is* so j much melodrama and-musical comedy that people have'been,getting into the way of sit--1 ting through the pieces without.the necessity < to exercise their powers of thought It uia pity, because they") are certainly capablo of rising to a l highcr Ifvel " On being spoken I to concerning the difficulty that had attended r i the production of David Belasc&'s plays outi 1 Bido of America, Miss Stew art* agreed that it \ Had fallen to tho lot of her company to establish .the onlyi two .successes These wqre ''Swett Kitty Bellairs" and "Zaza." "Lhad been trying to get 'Sweet Kitt>' for a long long while," remarked Miss Stewart, "before would let mo have it, and it'has i been all that I expected " Sho added ( 'I think jou in New Zealand would like 'Zaza , too, had we been able to play it" I The Vlotorla League. v ' f r On Wednesday' , afternoon, Mrs. Grace is i entertaining tho committee of the Victoria I[League ai an l afternoon tea at , her'homo, jwhen Sir Charles,.Lucas arid Mr Pearson* jwill bejpiesent, and will have sqmething .to soy abont' lmperial matters The committeehad hoped to be able to give an At Home during visit of theee gentlemen to Weland had, hoped that they would then gnjeibnef addressee on matters of Imperial interest, but at seoms that both Sir Charjos lucas and Mr. -Pearson have manv <6igaßement3 dufrng the few'days they will spend d Wellington, and can only with dlfficultyi spare an hour to meet the ,comnhttco'of the Victoria League ' < ~~ i> I ' '/ i ' i "' '" . * jMrs Hoslnng, of Dunedin, is a guest of Mrs Stovve.' ' > , !Mrs Tewsley, who has been visiting Dunedin, returned with Mr". Tew;s.lcy on Sunday The 'steff is to hold its annual ball in 'on Friday; August 20 v ( « ' . r Miss Mules, of Nelson, who has , visiting her brother, Dr. Mules, at Woodville, is now m Wellington, and is the guest of her uncle, Mr Henry Blundell. The engagement is announced of Miss ' , M 'S e J! ar > youngest daughter of Mr Dugald M'Kellar, Wellington, to- Mr. E Victor Law,"youngest son of the late Rev John Law, of Auckland News has been received that Miss Blanche Faviell, of Sydney—who, with her elder sister, spent some months in Now Zealand last summer, staying Tnth Mrs Samuel and Mrs Watson—is engaged to Dr. Arthur Hanson, of Sydney,