Women’s Topics

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 300, 1 December 1936, Page 2

Women’s Topics

c Social and Personal.

1' ’ 1 WMrs Steven was a bridge hostess i ok Monday afternoon. • » ?Mr and Mrs Baden Bellringer spent! & week-end iff New Plymouth and returned on Monday morning. Mrs Hunt, matron of the public JapspitaJ,, left for Palmerston North ns morningx to conduct nursing

Mrs J. B. Richards entertained friends at bridge on Monday night. Mrs Thompson, Wellington, and Mis’s Rita Thompson are the guests of Miss A. Kirkwood?

Mrs Jardine entertained the Portland Bridge Club at her residence this afternoon. The hostess received her guests wearing black semi matalasse. Her drawing-room was charmingly decorated with roses. Those present were Mesdames Cresswell, Coleman, Spence, Furrie, McLean, Steven and King.

IS IT ROMANCE? DAVID NIVEN AND MERLE OBERON .STOPPED BEING A PLAY-BOY.. David Niven, the film actor son of the late Lady Comyn-Platl, who was last year reported to be engaged to Merle" Oberon, is often to be seen in tier company according to friends recently returned to London alter visiting him in Hollywood. it is said that the announcement jf Mis.-, Oberon’s engagement to the Hollywood him magnate, Joseph Schenck, was only, so far as Mr Niven was concerned, "an interlude. Mr Niven, who was formerly in the Highland Light Infantry, now wears lung side whiskers like George Ball amt a Ronald Colman moustache. „ He is repotted to have said. 1 have stopped being a play-boy, now that 1 have my fool mi Ibe ladder to fani''. and .un settling down Io a life of hard work.’’ n has been staled that Mr Mven is under contract io Samimi tmldwyn •it ai'.’Ul f.'mOO a year, and is bem••irroerned’’' for sl.irdoin He has apimii'td in " The. Dark Angel”

BLINDNESS AND ROMANCE. TO WED MAN SHE WILL NEVER SEE. Blindness has brought romance to Miss Emily Allen, an employee at the Oxford Blind Person’s Committee’s workshop, for she is to marry Aiderman G. H. Brown, aged 78, a member of the committee responsible for her welfare and a former .mayor. Miss Allen, now in her thirties, has been blind from the age of four, and so she has never seen the man whom site has known for seven years and who is to be her bridegroom. The banns were called for the first time at South Hinksey Church and at Fritwell, MiSs Allen’s home, and it is at Fritwell that they are to be married. "We decided to marry about a week ago,” Miss Allen said. “1 am sure I shall be happy with him. "Some people have said that the disparity in our ages is too great, hut that is my business. He has been kindness itself to me.” Aiderman Brown’s first wife died about 18 months ago. He has a grown-up son and two daughters. Miss Allen was a close friend of the late Mrs Brown and recently has been helping to look after Aiderman Brown. When asked if she would be able to keep house for him, "Oh, yes.” was the confident reply. “You see, I have been trained to make my hands lake the place of my eyes and I was taught housework as well as office work at a special school.” Aiderman Brown has been a champion of blind people for many years. He has organised annual outings for them as well as raising money for them and fighting their pensions battles. It was in the course of this work that lie met Miss Allen.