SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1132, 20 May 1911, Page 10

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Miss Richmond's Play. Yesterday afternoon, at her home in Hobson Street, before a small but keenly interested gathering, Miss Alary Richmond read the manuscript of a play which she has written, and which is to be produced in the Opera' House at tho end of August for tho benefit of tho Richmond kindergartens. It is a fiveact play of one scene each, and is called "The Luck of the Mothcrlys," or "Sisters are Such ." Children, and all who love to lose themselves in the world of imagination, whore odd, Quaint, and irresponsible things happen, will find plenty of food for enjoyment in it. Tho scene of tho play is laid in Somerset, and a particularly clever touch is where tho brownies go into the village to buy groceries. The quaint Somerset dialect is faithfully given, and an old song of the Shire is sung—two things that are enough to make exiles from Somerset walk miles to listen to. The Suffragettes, too, are touched upon—lightlv certainly. It is owing to them that the father of tho family—a family of sixteen children—goes off; to the Antipodes, because, being a lover of ladies, he cannot hear to enforce the law upon them. The foundation of the play is really the love of the mother for her children, and that of the latter for their mother. t , There will be a great deal of singing and dancing introduced in the. play, and there promises to he no lack of variety about it. Miss Campbell is to train the dancers, and will introduce some particularly"efl'cctive. movements. Tho first rehearsal will probably take place next week, and there is no doubt that, tho event itself will be looked forward to with interest. Wellington cannot boast of many playwrights. , Firo Brigade Danes. . The-twelfth annual social and dance of the Wellinston Volunteer Firo Police nhd'theAV.ollinetbii Municipal Firo Brigade, < was held at the Central Station last evening, the function hemp, a most successful one. The Firo Station was gailv decorated for the occasion, and brilliantly :■ illuminated with a temporary installation,:kindly, lent by Mr. H. ■Hi !Snlith.r(oK£uua -.Street Extension), and Messrs. TV Ballinser and Co.', Ltd. Tho supper was set by'Rowcll; of Courtenay Place, and the musio wa's supplied by Messrs. Fraser and M'Cormick. An' energetic' committee, of which the masters of ceremonies were Lieut. J. C. Cusack and Deputy-Super-intendent Tait, admirably controlled tho arrangements. Acknowledgment. . Tho matron of the -Wellington Hospital- .'acknowledges the following!— Magazines and papers, Mesdames Williams, Foster-Brown, Evans, and Miss A. Howse; books and illustrated papers, Mesdames F-ranch, Walls, and Mr. Turnbull; clothes, Mrs. Wallis. Paimersten North News. - A very. enjoyablo bridge party was given by Mrs. H. Waldcgrayo on Wednesday evening at her residence, Park Road, for her guest, Mrs. Neald. Ten tables .wcro made u« and after very pleasant games, supper was served in the dining-room, tho table being artistically decorated with autumn foliage, find chrysanthemums. Among tho guests were: Mr. and Mrs. F. S. M'Rao, Mr. and Mrs. Morrah, Mr. and Mrs. C. Armstrong, and Miss Armstrong, Mr. and Mrs. M'Knight, Misses Barnicoat, Randolph, Porter, Smith, Warburton, Watsoii, and Messrs. M'Donald, Scott, Everard, Keeble, Watson, Clcre, and Captain ■ White. A wedding was celebrated at the residence of Mr. Dcvonpoi;t, in Columbia Road, Masterton, when Mr. Harry Wenham was married to Miss Mina Donald, of County Tyrone, li'cland. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. A. T. Thompson. , Friends'of the Rev. W. M. and Mrs. Baumber will bo interested to learn of tho engagement of their younger daughter, Estelle, to Mr. Douglas Smith, son of the 'Hon. G. J. Smith; Miss Gracio Moncricff is at present visiting friends in tho Wairarapa. 'fiio engagement is announced of Mr. Eric Lvon, LL.B., youngest son of tho late Mr. W. D. Lyon, to Miss Edith Wheeler, second daughter of Mr. G. W. Wheeler, of this city. Miss Hilda Stevens, who has been visiting her people in ' Palmerston North, lelt for England by the Tainui yesterday. • The Rev. Mr. Ralph, of Eketahuna, came to Wellington on 'Tuesday to meet his wife and family who arrived by the lonic from London on Wednesday. During their stay in Wellington they were the guests of the Rev. Mr. and Mrs Potter, of the Primitive Methodist Church, Webb Street. They left for their homo yesterday. Miss Dolly Wilson and Miss Abraham have gone for a short holiday up tho Main trunk line. Mrs. Dan AVillis (Hawora) is tho guest of her mother, Mrs. J. D. R. Hewitt. Mrs. Hickman Russell is visiting her sister, Miss Stanford. Misses Eraser (Craven) are spending the holidays at Packakariki. Mrs. Goldingham and family have also gone to Packakariki for tho holidays. Her many friends arc delighted to welcome back Mrs. Charles Waldegravo who returned this week from England where she went for the marriage of her daughter. Mrs. Clift (Blenheim) is visiting Wellington and is staying at the Grand Hotel. '