HERE AND THERE

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1934, Page 11

HERE AND THERE

Lecture at Lyceum Club. A lecture on the Douglas Social Credit System was given at,the Lyceum Club, last evening by Miss M. H. M. King, M.A. Miss King was introduced by Mrs. G. P. Andorson, on behalf of the Women's Auxiliary of the Douglas Social Credit Association, and was presented with a bouquet of flowers. At the conclusion of her address Miss King answered questions. Artist Marries! ' Mr. Charles Pears, the famous painter of battleships, was married in London recently to a yachtswoman, Mrs. Dulce

Griffiths (writes a correspondent). The cerornony took place at Kensington register office, and >vas attended by half a dozen relatives and friends. Mr. Pears, who was formerly artist to the Admiralty at the Imperial War Museum, told a reporter that Ms bride was quite as famous as he was. _ "Sheowns and sails single-lianded a .six-ton yacht, teaches yachting to apprentices, and under the name of Peter Gerrard writes many articles on yachting," he said proudly. Mr. Pears added that there would be no honeymoon at present, as he and his wife were too busy, and could spare time only for a little luncheon. The bride .arrived at the register office with, her father, Colonel. H. G. Kcnnard, formerly Fifth Dragoon Guards, and her sister, Miss Thirza Kennard. She was wearing a royal blno costume, with a small hat. Romance in China. A romance of the China mission fields lies behind the recent announcemcnt",of the marriage of Mr. Ivor. C. ProctorBeauchamp, son of Sir Montaga and Lady Proctor-Bcauchnmp, to Miss Caroline Muriel Donsham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Donsham, of Stonygate, Leicester (states a correspondent). In 192S Miss Densham went as a nurse to the medical side of the China Inland Mission, and for five years she has worked in the treaty port of Chefoo. A year late Mr. Proctor-Beau-champ went out as a medical missionary to the samo station, and the two became colleagues/ They were married on September 30 at Chofoo by the British' chaplain. Mr. Proetor-Beau-champ's, father, Sir Montagu ProctorBeauchamp, was one of the . famous group of athlete-missionaries known as the tf Cambridge Seven," whose numbers included an ex-captain of . the Cambridge cricket eleven, two Cambridge cricketers, and a Cambridge rowing blue. Sir Montagu was also a university oar. Another ,of the "Seven",gave up a commission in the Boyal Artillery to join them. • Sir Montagu worked in the mission fields for forty years. Lady Prudence Jelllcoe. Lord Jellieoe'g daughter, Lady Prudence Jellicoe, is one of a number of young society girls who are apparently contemplating embarking on a political career (states a London ■writer), tinder careful tuition she is already developing into a good speaker, and if a scat is not; found for her in one of the constituencies she will be in .demand on. a good many platforms at the next General Election. Like other aspirants to political honours, she is attending classes at the Bonar Law College at Ashridge, where the students are given a sound knowledge of political affairs, though the best of tutors cannot impart oratorical gifts to unre'eeptive pupils. Public speakers are born and not made. Lady Astor, one of the sprightliest and most entertaining speakers among women politicians, had no lessons in the art of public speaking. .-•' -

Fatal cases in influenza were much fewer in Britain last year than in 1932, medical authorities giving the credit for this to the wonderfully sunny summer.