SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1735, 28 April 1913, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Wedding at Muritai. A very pretty wedding was celebrated at the little English Church at Muritai on Saturday morning, tho bridegroom being Major R. H. J. Beero. (Territorial Force), of tho firm of 0. and R. Bcere, solicitors, Wellington, and tho bride Miss Constance Butler, of Bournsmouth, England. Miss Esbelle Beero, sister to tho bridegroom, attended the bride, and Mr. Oswald Beero and Mr. Hooker tho bridegroom. Tho fivo little bridesmaids were the Misses Nanoy, Valerie, and Margaret Beere, nieces of tho bridegroom, Miss Katrine Hursthonse and Violet Reado (India). The brido woro an English gown of ivhite duclieso satin with beautiful loco ami long train with garlands of chiffon roses. Her long tullo veil was haud embroidered and she beautiful bouquet. Miss Beero wore a pretty whito gewn and also carried a largo bouquet. The little bridesmaids dainty whito muslin and lace frocks and Dutch bonnets.

Tho quests, who were mostly relations of the bridegroom, included Mrs. Holroyd Beere, mother of tho bridegroom, who woro royal-blue silk veiled with embroidered ninon, and a black hat with largo ostrich plumes. She carried, a bouquet of violets; Mr. and Mrs. Butler, parents of tho bride, tho latter wearing pearl grey embroidered ninon over grey silk and hat of grey with large plumes; Mr. hncij Mrs. Oswald Beerc, Mrs. Fred Fitohett, Mrs. Hursthouse, Mrs. do Latour, Mrs.' Leys, Miss Brower and Mr. and Mrs. Wyn Beerc, Miss Ronnie, and others. After the ceremony the guests motored to Day's Bay House, where tho wedding breakfast awaited them.' The bride's going-away dress was of wedgwood blue cloth and hat with beautiful lnrgo ostrich feather of the 6ame shade of blue. Mr. and Mrs. Rawdon Beerc left later by the Manawatu train on their wedding tour. An Elocutionary Evening. The nows that Mrs. Sutcliffe, who is so well known in Wellington as a teacher of'elocution, is giving up her work will bo received with much regret on tho part of many people. During the timo that she has been established hero, Mrs. Sutclifl'o has made many friends among tho public by the ready kindness with which she lias assisted in deserving carses and also in the courso of her daily work. Mr. Culford Bell is taking over her connection and oil Saturday evening he invited Mrs. Satellite's present pupils and their parents to meet him at an evening which ho gavo in Godbcr's room, in Courtenay Place. A very enjoyable programme, in which, he was assisted by Miss Betty Purdom, was given and excellent work was done by both. Chief among tho items which, they perfumed together wero tho dialogue between Hubert and Prince Arthur from "King John," "A Pair of Lunatics" and a scene from "Jylius Caesar." Each also gave a number, of recitations, serious, comio and dramatic, full ecopo being given to their versatility. At the request of thoso present Mrs. Sutcliffe recited the "Watchman's Plea," followed by another recitation in response to an encore. . Supper concluded a very pleasant evening. Mrs. Sutcliffe was wearing a gown of red silk with cream laco on the bodice and a long black embroidered scarf. Miss Purdom woro a white frock. For tho remainder of this week Mrs. Sutcliffe will be at Mr. Bell's rooms in Boulcott Street during tho day to present the pupils to Mr. Bell.

Tho engagement is announced of Miss Bertha ifickson, second daughter of Mrs. T. W. Hickson, of Ellerslie, Auckland, and Mr. A. Egerton Kidner, of Somerset, England. Not only. has one of the "Blue Bird" children written a melodrama, but another is responsible, for a musical comedy entitled, rather quaintly, "Just by Chance," which is to be privately performed by the children of tho company in Cliristchurch. The authoress is little "Kathleen French, who is understudy for Gertie Cremer as Tyltyl, and who is appearing nightly as tho unborn Tyl in tho Kingdom of the Future Sceno in "Tho Blue Bird." Mr,, Mrs., and Miss Clarke Johnson will be passengers, per Rotorua, for London on Thursday next. Miss It. V. Edgerl-ev, M.A., has been appointed by tho Auckland Education Board instructress in botany at pupil teachers' Saturday classes. Nurse Watson (not Nurse Martin, as announced in a former issue), lately of the Women's Hospital, Sydney, lias opened an obstetric hospital at 149 Molesworth Street. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Duncan (Hawko's Bay) have left for . Australia and Japan. .Mr. and Mrs. Louis Blundell leave by the Niagara very shortly on a visit to Auveriai. Mrs. Blundell is at present visiting Chrisbhurch. Miss Thurston-, who has been visiting Miss Coates, returned to Christchurch on Friday. Mrs. H. D. Bell and tho Misses Bell left Wellington yesterday with tho Hon. H. D. Bell for Auckland to attend the welcoming functions held in that city in honour of H.M.S. Now Zealand. Invitations for a dance to be held in the Oriental Bay Hall on Tuesday, May (i, havo been issued by a committee comprising the Misses M. Atkinson, M. Fell, Garland, D. Isaacs, E. Myers, and D. Turnbull. Tho followi/ig ladies havo consented to bo chaperones:—Mesdames Coull, .Fell, Garland, Myers, Turnbull, and Miss Kane.

A committoc consisting of the Misses Ross, Dixon, Smith, ami Mallard havo issued invitations for a dance to be held in tlvo Masonic Hall, Boulcott Street, on Wednesday, April 3.

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The New Russian Ballet. "I,e Dieu Bleu," the ballet in one aci, the scenario of whicli is l>v Cocteau and music by KeynaUlo Ilalui, lias been produced at Covent Garden (slates an English paper), and formed a striking feature of (lie programme recently. "Cleonatre" and "Petrouchka" were given the same evening, tho latter being quite one of tho successes of the Beecham season, which, rumour soys, may bo extended. Not until the "grand" season at Covont Garden, however, will tho new ballet "Sacro de Printemps," for which Stravinsky lias written the music and Nijinsky inado tho "book," bo produced. It ivill bo first given in Paris by tho Russian dancers and then brought over to London. Nijinsky during the past month that ho has been in England has been rehearsing this novel and extraordinary work, in which, however, he will not himself Ijd seen. The idea.of the composer and the librettist is to give expression to the soul of nature as it was beforo hnman lifo came into being. The stones and tho trees. and tho flowers come out of chaos, and glory in their touch with the world. No men or women appear in the ballet. Tho things that move ar« only incarnations of vegotable and mineral life. It is to bo a thing of concrete masses, not of individual effects.

M. Nijinsky is also preparing another ballet, in winch ho will dance with Mine. ICarsavina and his sister, Mile. Nijinsky. This is to bo called "Jeu." The music has been written by Debussy, the "libretto" by Nijinsky, and the costumes awl effects are by Bakst. This ballet has its story sot a century ahead of the present time, and tho costumes and scenery are said to bo amazing. It is a phantasy of tho lightest and gayest description; and the results aimed at are so extraordinary that it will bo suro to arouse much discussion, not only among admirers of Karsavina and Nijinsky, but also among technical musicians.