Jottings Of A Lady About Town

NZ Truth, Issue 1195, 25 October 1928, Page 19

Jottings Of A Lady About Town

Pals Plunge Together

TWO November weddings which .will fall almost "within a week" of ;eaoh other are Ida Searle's and Lorna Trengrove's. ' '' ' '•;.- : .-'- . '■•.-.-' Both are old girls o,f the Wellington College, both were chums, and Ida is to be bridesmaid at Lorna's wedding.

Lorna Trengrove's delicate; clearcut type of beauty — she has fair, Etoncropped hair, black brows and dark brown eyes — makes, a great appeal to local artists; several portraits of her have been hung at different Academy exhibitions, including ,7a; good-looking one m this year's show.

She has also considerable. talent for art herself and has turned her clever pencil to commercial drawings. \lcla Searle is a niece of' ex-Mayor •Norwood's arid r a very vivacious^ dairity little person. Both girls are m their early twenties and should make something rather extra special m the. way of brides. :-.#'•..*-; *■'■■'■ Little Lady jk\nnQ SOLEMN-EYED, nine-year-old Lady Anne Walpole, with the two black plaits (which make her small, ladyship: very much like any schoolgirl) showing on blue-costumed shoulders, is the Earl of Orford's last and littlest .daughter. . • . -."■ '■ . x

She is the young person who is going to extract the most fun from the family's New Zealand travels, for her father is m very delicate health, and the Countess of Orford, naturally, will be making a. very quiet stay for that reason.

But little Lady Anne's rapt eyes, as she looked over the deck -rail, showed that something of .the traveller spirit is alight m" her: already. She has a big sister '— or halfsister, rathe r-— Lady. .Dor 6' thy Mills, who is. not only a famous traveller, but' a gay and' amusing writer on the subject of her happy-go-lucky voyages.

• Lady Dorothy's mother (the earl's first wife) was; an American, Miss Corbin, but the heir to the earldom is young Robert Montgome'rie Walpole, fifteen-year-old cousin -."of' the present earl. .--..' "'-.•-, •■ '•" •■:'":■:'' ',-' ■

Robert is : at present wearing! Eton collars . and : a jampot hatv at "The Hill's" famous rival. • .■■ . • * ':■•'■■»' ■'. . #.;■•■ v

Here for HesOtb " ' .

INTERESTING Ruahine arrivals are : • -' the Earl and Countess of Orford and their small daughter.

The earl (\y ho is here for .health reasons and has a deal of recuperative, work to put m) looked very frail and weary as he was assisted down the gangway by two hefty policemen „ and every steward within sight, but he preserved V the Englishman's natural smartness," and, m spite of . his -evident illness, is a debonair figure, with small, pointed .beard, bowler hat and the latest and sportiest thing m the way Of suitings. : $ 7i The countess,; his second and much junior • wife, looked with eyes of interest on the country where she is \o inakea prolonged, and, it. is hoped, a. very beneficial stay. *

She is a tall, slim, very English type (though she wears; tortpiseshell. glasses, American fashion). These she laughingly took off, for the benefit of a. small legion Of photographers.

7 She was wearing a graceful, dark blu,e;;,coat,;: > a spotted scarf arid *a -Jtrirrilittle "hat of dark -velours ' felt, 7 "•"■■ •"■ "' ' '-' 7

Jolly Good Fellows

JOHN CROFT, the .'...ypyhg^ /Canadian :Traae. Commissiqrier isfj-botli-»^oci-ally and commercially— an "equal"" success. ■ -. ■"'■ ■ :"\[ ■■:^'~ : ->..i---

He was born at Ban cross, Canada, served with the .Canadian forces as captain.7 had a distinguished 7wa,r record, and, during' the, five. years of his work m New Zealand; .has; built ;up r a peace and.; ; ppr^larWy?-Ur|eßrdr -* equally distinguished. "7' -^7" ■";'> 7 '■:■■ *'• !=■'-'■;' ';. : ; Both he and his bride* '-.; Miss ■ Sybil Martin, daughter, of the^ 'A. A'. Martin who presided over the Auckland Chamber of Commerce for some years, are keen sport-lover's. ■'": With the golf clubs they are well to the fore, ; but thengreat love js angling. The ' new : Mrs.. Croft, . last season, caught '7one of the largest flsh ever landed by a woman deep-sea angler m New Zealand waters.

The two are off for a whirlwind motor honeymoon m the North Island. John, drives his own small car — and drives, her well' and truly: . And since we're women, we mustn't forget to note the fact . that the young bride, is a vivacious and- charming girl and that her wedding, 7with its} leaf-green-gowned bridesmaids, 7was one of the prettiest seen m Auckland for ages.

Sybil, herself, wore ivory satin beaute, with flared georgette, flounces, long sleeves and a delicate veil of Honitpn lace. Her chief attendant, Miss iFrjeda Rathbone, was", a peachblossorp' maid m a' nin on frock and leghorn hat swathed with green."

Despite 'the legend : that y "green is unlucky," the tints :of young leaves, were repeated ;,. m the frocks .. of the little flower girls, Joyce Armif age and Margaret Ewen, who wore 'hailstone muslin and sashes. ,7. .;'

Peter Gardner, . small page boy, was very "swanky", m green crepella "trews" and a. peach-colored crepe-de-chine tunic. Julian Foster, Ariierican Trade Commissioner, was best man. ■ * ,#.-",. ..-*--..---• Roses .. and ; Hollyhocks -. . ; , ;; - OOLLYHOGKS fifteen ' feet : tall ; rock roses so tiny that they can'^riuggle into crannies m stone paths. 'Both are represented m Mrs.7 3V. B. McEwan's wonderful garden.

Although Mrs. McEwan is a Wellingtonian and a daughter of . . F.;.;. '.M. B. Fisher, the terinis player arid mentarian, her Fitzherbert 7 -Terrace "home is only just over a year-old. But it has been built to last, arid?has the lovely Greek lines and columns of the type of home which grows mo.re. beautiful as . the years pass by. "-./'■'.

"Toronto's" garden is half the work of Mrs.. Fisher, New Zealand's' one and excellent lady landscape gardener, and half. that of Mrs. McEwan. .There are crazy paths, with tiny plants 1 blossoming ' between:, -.the .flags ;7-tall 7 clumps of irises; : cliiriblrig- rosesj just-»'getting ready to swarm, over' the -stone and brick walls; diairiond-shapedj flags, patterned irregularly m "the green lawns:-'-. v -,. •■... '.'"■". . 'j?r .

At the bottom of the garden is a small,, red courtyard^ ,;Here Is the herb border, the pride of -Mrs. McEwari's7heart, and 7 behind it* the .fifteenfoot .hollyhocks, which m sumriiertime will be covered with spires* of pink blossom.

The house itself is "worthy; •of its garden. Mrs. McEwan has pajd many visits to England; arid, corrie home treasure-laden. The. long, dark-panel-led dining room, hung ; with 7-liiac curtains, 1 opens into a second room. One Is full of .cherry blossom and the other of tulips so wide that they look like great scarlet lilies. v : •-■££;.' As m the garden, Mrs* McEwan herself did a great deal of the\"sfesigning arid -has : .;takeja;, the;. ke.^nes.fc 3^tt^rest to evej^u^t^&oi^^