PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 161, 31 March 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

MEX AXD WOMEX OF TO-DAY. Mrs. Asquith is not only a clever musician, but also a skilled dancer, having taken lessons from Miss Letty Lind the popular actress and dancer. * * * Miss Edna May, who is now in Xew York is to receive £20,000 for appearing in cinema p'ays. This sum she puiposes to give to the Red Cross and other charitties in which she is interested. * # * The Hon. Lacy Haig, wife of General Sir Douglas Haig, was a Maid of Honour to Queen V ictoria and also to Queen Alexandra, with both of whom sho was a great favourite, and after whom her daughters are named. • # * # King Ferdinand is one of the bestguarded of Sovereigns. Day and night he wears a steel breast-plate. When ho was Prince of Bulgaria he had a> special guart to his own person a sort of Macedonian Hercules named Cluisto, whose vigilance and physical vigour were legendary in all tlie Europeana Courts. * * * Sir Edward Grey is fast creating a record. If he remains Foreign Secretary till the middle of June next he will have been Foreign Secretary for a longer consecutive period than any other British statesman for over a century. At present the record tenure is that of Lord Castlereagh, who held the office for ten years and twenty-three weeks. H.H. the Maharajah of Kapurthala, who has been out at the Front, is one of the wealthiest and at the same time the most highly-cultured noblemen in India. His rent-roll alone is estimated at about £IBO,OOO a year, and he is the possessor of some of the most magnificent jewellery in the world. The value of it is reputed to be over £8,000.000. * • » * Mrs. McKenna, wife of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is well-known among her friends as a musician and composer. At a concert given at Wimborne House a few years ago a distinct success was scored with a song entitled "Evening," the beautiful words being by Miss Alice Mevnell and the altogether appropriate music by Mrs. Reginald McKenna.