PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 13, 16 September 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Obituary: Professor \ ambery, i'ro- ' feasor of Oriental Languages at the Buda Pesth University; aged 81.— Cable.

Mr J. Butehart, till recently manager of the Co-op. Store bakery, left by this morning's mail train for Taihape, where ho is to go into the bakery business in partnership with his brother.

■ Captain Davis, of the Mawson ex pedition ship. Aurora, left London last month on his -return to Australia, a*3 Sir Ernest Shackleton and Mr FrStik Wild (who was in command of the second base of the Mawson Antarctic Expedition)-were amongst those who .came to bid him good-bye. "I think it is hardly right," said Sir Ernest, "that we should be left standing 'on this platform while Davis is off once more to the Antarctic. 1 wish I could accompany him. 'The call of the South' is in my ears, and one day, Sir Ernest," said Captain Davis. "Of that I'm sure." "I hope sty" was the famous explorer's reply;

Miss Maxine Elliott, the American actress in London, who refused to be carried off by negroes when playing Potiphar in "Joseph and His Brethren," is a sister-in-law of Sir Johnstone Forbes-Robertson, and at the height of her career in New York was regarded as the most beautiful woman on the American stage. She married Nat C. Goodwin in 1896 and accompanied him to Australia in that year. Later she divorced him, and in 1903 she appeared as a "star" in "Her Own Way." In 1908 she opened her own theatre, the Maxine Elliott. in New York, and a.year or so ago she retired temporarily from the stage.

She started in the theatrical profession

as a penniless girl of sixteen with a younger sister dependent on her, and now she is the possessor of a comfortable fortune. A® recently as July she was contemplating permanent retirement from the stage, but she was induced to appear in "Joseph and His Brethren," which Sir Herbert Tree is staging. r

Dr. F. Truby King has been spend-

ing some time in Edinburgh (writes. the London correspondent of the Wel- • lington Post under date Bth August.) where he was busy superintending the

publication of the book, "Feeding and Care of Baby," which has now made its appearance. Dr. and Mrs King 4 are now in London attending a series of conferences on infant mor : tfcalifcy, tuberculosis, and medicine; generally. While here Dr. King has ', been able*, throug the- instrumentality of Mr Percy A. <'Harris,-: who is a 1 prominent member 1 of 'the > London County Council, to study the conditions under which women and children are Hying in a Bethnal Green area, which is considered to present the most unfavourable features and which is now receiving the special attention of the County Council. - The I whole of this week Drl'ahd : Mrs King" ihave been fully .ocupied with the International Congress of Medicine, and at-its conclusion they spend a month or- more on the Continent. They expect to be back in London at the end of September, and, crossing to America, they will visit Chicago and the eastern cities'of America, from Que-

bee to New Orleans. Finally they wit] cross to San. Francisco by the I Southern Pacific railway and will take slbamer back to New-Zealand.