Women the World Over

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 489, 19 October 1928, Page 5

Women the World Over

FOR BRAVERY j Miss Dockie. of the Homeland, is the. j first British girl to be granted the I highest award of the French Scout | Movement During a camp meeting j that she attended with a number of ! French girls on the Rhine, a French ■ oatrol officer. Monsieur Marcel Ranz. I got into deep water. He had sunk, but ! she managed to bring him to the sur- ! face and, after great exertion, to swim i with him to the shore. Although ; greatly exhausted, she applied artificial respiration until the rescued man revived. A LAUREL WREATH Among the many tokens of affection which were recently placed on the W. S. Gilbert memorial in London was a laurel wreath from Dame Madge Kendal, who made her first appearance on the London stage 62 years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Kendal produced “The Palace of Truth.” one of the earliest works of Gilbert, in IS7O, and in the following year she played in his “Pygmalion and Galatea.” Dame Kendal, who is in her SOth year, can still remember the parts she took in the plays of long ago. OF FAMED DESCENT This is Mrs. R. B. Denny, wife of i Major Richard Brougham Benny, and I formerly Miss Sybil Evans-Frekc, who

is known in the theatre world as Nina Oldfield. She is a descendant of Nance Oldfield, the famous actress, who is buried in Westminster Abbey. BOTANICAL RESEARCH Miss Sarah Hynes, who was the first woman employed by the New South Wales Government on the scientific staff of the Sydney Botanic Gardens, is still engaged on botanical research, and she has already given the Federal Government useful assistance in the establishment of the national herbarium at Canberra. Miss Hynes was one of the two women graduate founders of the Women’s College at the Sydney University. RESPONSIBILITY Character-reading should surely play a large part in the business capabilities of Miss Sylvia Munden, who, in connection with her duties in the London branch of the Manufacturers’ Life Insurance Company of Canada, has the responsibility of interviewing applicants for posts as salesmen. Buring the past year she has interviewed nearly 2,000 applicants. It is stated that she can tell a good salesman at a glance, and that her instinct has never j failed her yet.