NOTES FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10281, 16 May 1919, Page 8

NOTES FOR WOMEN

If nothing unforeseen happens th« King and Queen will go in state to Ascot races this year (says a London paper), and the Prince of Wales and Princess Mary will probably accompany them. There is a rumour that the King of Spain will visit Windsor Castle in Juno and accompany the King and Queen to the famous Heath. It is probable that a good many persona will fly to Ascot, this year, and. thus avoid the dusty roads and thousands of motor-cars.

When Mr Robert. Lofaine was at the front he varied the monotony of strafing the Huns by entertaining the men under his command with' tneatricals. On. ono occasion he put a new one-acti play by Mr, Bernard Shaw into rehearsal, all. the parts being filled by officers. One' of the latter confided to Loraine that, although they all it "deuced brilliant and-all that sort ol uhing," they feared it would be over the. heads of the men in tho; audience. This so annoyed. Loraine that he recast the play with the nieh and set them to ■act to the.officers—with brillians success. One of the'actors was afterwards overheard to say that he was afraid the officers didn't understand it! Never in: the history®of tJhe theatre has there been so little interest in the drama .'or' so: much in entertainment. The. oause. cannot be that the theatra has become a commercial enterprise, as it has, against an enterprise 'in a form, ->f art; it niust be that the public in seeking relaxation, does' nob very much care how'it is relaxed (says a London critic). ■ The theatre is ,in the airj Drury.. Lane fills the-eye; Sir Charles Wyndham. dies; it is not' easy to - ; buy a. seat, for anything (that is so curious) —for anything—and yet there are very few even passably good plays, few first* rate, actors to be seen, and no great' leaders of this art industry. The years of war have blotted out Tree, Wallei, Alexander,••- Willaard, W-yndham, but gave us ono passing glimpse of the old school in the reappearance of Six Squirsi Bancroft; and *ney seem to have giv9n to us no new school.

Just before the war a. Roman, tail U tary diploma . giving honourable discharge from service to a, veteran, wag discovered at Wiesbaden. It was ~ai» 4Uired for the Berlin .Museum, and ha« now been published in the catalogue of recent acquisitions of that institution. Tho new specimen is of importance for information derivable from i» concerning auxiliary troops employee, as it says,' in Germania under Yespa*. sian, ia"A.D. 78. According to the inscription, the Prefect of the Rhine district at the'time .was Titus Stabirius Secundus. The officer commanding tho army to which the veteran belonged •& as Julius Cordouius. Rutilius Galicius; and among the auxiliary,,troops,in his'ser- ; vice were squadrons from." Noi'icum, Moesiia, and Spain. . .' General surprise was expressed in London when it was known that M> Charles Frohman, the theatrical manager, left only £9O. The ■growi.estate before lihe deduction of, liabilities was £183,786. The reason 'is said to be that he did not make contracts with members of tho profession, but paid them according to their, position in tne public estimation}. And he losb money . theroby. "Then he declined to make money in waya .adopted by many producers. For instance, he did not touch melodrama,, although melodrama "is a great draw to the masses and often shows tremendous profits. Mr Frohman made many an a,ctor rich, and also many an author—but was not the man to amass a great fortune himself." said one of Us friend*. WANGANUI NOTES.;" (By "Eileen.") "WANGANUI, May 14. Mrs Stewart, of Marton, has been visiting friends in Wanganui. -* Mrs J. R. Foster is on a short visit to her sister, Mrs McCabe, Wellington. Mrs. Cruickshank, principnl of the Girls' College, han returned from het: trip to the south. Dean Holley, of Wellington, was in Wanganui for the week-end, and tools part in a ceremony at Uie convent on, Sunday. ' " Mis Russell Grace left by Tuesday's express on route for Europe. Mis N. Mouli and Mrs G.- Handley, loft this week on a motor trip to Tax*. nakl. Mrs W. B. G. Foster returned las* week-end from her three weeks' visit to her farm at Kaitaiki. Mrs J: M. Gibson is on a visit to New Plymouth. Mr and Mrs S. Armstrong, of Christ* church, have been on n short visit to Wanganui. Archbishop Redwood , arrived in Wanganui tast. week-end, and on Sunday opened, the new convent chapel at St. JohnV HillMrs Hutton gave a morning tea at George and Kersley's on Monday as' a farewell to Mrs Russell Grace. Th« lounge looked very pretty, with masses. of 'terracotta," chrysanthemums and tinted autumn leaves. Mrs Hutton wore.a suit of nattier blue cloth. Mrs Russell Grace was in a grey tweed travelling suit. Among the guests wer« ~'. Mrs Giffdrd-Mirshall, Mrsljatham, Mrs Neamo. Mrs'P.* Marshall, Mrs Fairburn, Mrs Alexander Wilson, Mrs How- " ard Christie, Mrs A. E. Wall, Mri Reece, Mrs L. Peck and Miss M. Hole. Before saying good-bye Mrs Hutton handed Mrs Grace a bunch of violets. ' A number of ladies are holding street stalls once a ' week, when autumn leaves, berries and flowers are disposed of. The prdceeds are for the Orphanage.. ■'■'■. WEDDINGS AT HOME. Quite a number of weddings of Ne* Zealand interest have taken place ia Scotland (says English correspondent) , including tho following: — -On Maroli 11th, at St. David's U.F. Churoh, Arnold R. Edwards, N.Z.E.F., Brentwood, Moutere, was married to Ghris, eldest daughter of the late Mr .. A Fotheringham and Mrs Fotherinp. ham, of 8, Devon T>laco, Edinburgh, tha ceremony being performed by the Rev. Thomas Harvey. • At - the Church of - the Good Shepherd. Murray field, Sergeant Ernest : A. Haugh, N.Z.E.F., was married, on March/ 18th, to Dorothy. M. Brown, . only daughter of Mr and Mrs W. A. Brown, Edinburgh. The* Rev.- Alex. Boyd. Principal of the Episcopal Training College. Edinburgh, officiated. Adam Dunn, N.Z.E.F., youngest son of Mr William Keddie, Obmiston road, Edinburgh, "was married on March 18th, «t 11, Torphiche'n street,. Edinburgh, to Catherine Ferguson, younger daughter of the late" Robert McNeill, and of MVs . McNeill/ 5, Caledonian ' place, Edinburgh. . « On March" 12th, at Free Gardeners* Institute, Sergeant Joe Kornick, M.M., N-Z.E.F., youngest son of the lat« John Kernick and Mrs Kernick, Blackball, New Zealand, was married to Barbara' Petria,:Leishman', youngest daughter of the late JamesLeishmatrand Mrs Leiahman, 224, Eastevroad,' Leith.-"' Tha' Revi .James:.; Harvev;VM:A..iiierformeil ,;■