Women the World Over

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 168, 6 October 1927, Page 5

Women the World Over

A NEW ZEALANDER Miss Jocelyn Yeo, who dances with the Russian ballet, is a New Zealand dancer, who is becoming favourably known to London theatre-goers. She danced at the annual festival of the Imperial Society of Teachers, at the New Scala Theatre, on July 23. In Deli he’s ballet “Sylvia,” given under the direction of Mr. Fred Martin, Miss Yeo played the title role, and her acting and dancing were received with enthusiasm by an audience which included many leading artists. Monsieur Stanislau Idyikosky, the famous Russian dancer, has been giving Miss Yeo special lessons. CHILD TUITION An influential English body, the Parents’ National Educational Union, is sending its organising secretary, Miss Pennethorne, to Australia shortly to give a series of lectures and demonstrations of the society’s methods. One of the society’s specialties is the training of governesses for young children whose homes are too remote for them to attend school. It also specialises in correspondence tuition. A VICTORIOUS RETURN lilies Helen Wills is here seen on the deck of the “Berengarlia” after her vic-

torious return from Wimbledon. A cheering crowd awaited her arrival in New York harbour. The new lady tennis champion of the world has achieved this exalted position in a remarkably short space of time as she is not yet twenty-one. WITH THE ARTISTS At the Royal Academy this year “Morning,” a painting by Mrs. Dodd Proctor, has been proclaimed “the picture of the year,” while another, “Dressing for the Ballet,” by Mrs. Laura Knight, is spoken of as “the sensation of the year.” IN PARIS The first woman to gain a permanent post in the famed Pasteur Institute in Paris is Mdlle. Helene Stein, of Lyons, who was recently given a position in ore of the laboratories in recognition of her original research work. Although Mdlle. Stein is quite young she ha.s gained a number of important degrees, besides various prizes and distinctions. A CHESS PLAYER Miss Vera Menchik, a 21-year-old chess player, earned the title of the world’s first woman chess champion, by winning the women’s tournament at the British Chess Federation Congress at Westminster. She played her first game In Moscow when she was nine. She has lived in Hastings, England, for six years. Her mother is English, and her father a Czechoslovakian. A POPULAR NOVELIST A rumour is current that Rebecca West, the well-known novelist and lecturer, will attend the Women’s PanPacific Conference in Honolulu next year. It is also stated that she will pay a visit to New Zealand at the conclusion of the conference. The name of Rebecca West is a household word in New Zealand homes for her books have a wide circulation here. It was “The Return of the Soldier” that first brought her fame and this she has followed up with “The Judge,” and her popular critical essays. HOME NURSING LECTURES The first lecture to women on home nursing will be given at the St. John Ambulance Station this evening, and on Friday evening there will be a lecture on first aid to the injured. After these classes there will be no more lectures this year, as another course could not be completed before the Christmas holidays. If dried herbs for flavouring are scalded and allowed to stand ten minutes before the water is poured off they are more easily digested and disagreeable “repeating” is prevented.