Social and Personal.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 304, 8 December 1936, Page 2

Social and Personal.

Miss Beryl Masters is visiting Mrs ■ Marks, Wanganui. » • * Mrs Fredric entertained friends at bridge on Monday. Mrs.. J. B. Roberts was a bridge hostess this week. Mrs D. J. Malone and Miss Molly Malone left for Wellington this morning accompanied by Mrs. Lyons and Miss Molly Lyons. Miss Rhea -Furrie gave a delightful “bon voyage’’ party this afternoon for Miss Daphne Mann, who leaves on the 17th of th,is month for England. Each guest brought a travelling gift. Mrs Marchant, Cardiff, was “at home’’ on Friday afternoon. Amongst those present were: Mesdames G. Hale, Truby King, Rowell, R. Tyrer, D. McLean, Heslopf), Misses Squires »■ and Wood. During the afternoon Mrs Marchant charmed her guests with ' some artistically played pianoforte solos. Mrs. Heslopp also contributed ■ ' some solos.

Mrs. J. W. Spence, Olivia Street, si entertained friends at bridge this -afternoon. Some of the members of ♦the Portland Club were present.’ The guests were: Mesdames L. Jardine, SC Coleman, D. McLean, J. B. Richards, A. W. Budge, G. Hall, E. S. Rutherford, Heslopp, Truby King, R. Curtis, D. Steven. The hostess re--j..ceivefl her guests in blue figured georgette. -syH ■ ■■ ■ ..

Iler 7,000 Miles Without A Passport bthel mannin outwits bolsheviks Ethel Mannin, novelist, has done some remarkable things in her time, perhaps the most remarkable of all the fact that she travelled from Moscow to Samarkand and back last aatumu, a 7 000-mile journey, without a passport *The Bolsheviks refused to give her -, passport, but she won through. She first travelled from Leningrad southwards to Tiflis, flew to Baku on the Caspian, travelled the golden road ” to Samarkand, almost 1,200 miles due east of Tiflis, and then wandered through Turkistan north-eastwards again to Moscow, from which she returned by ’plane.. *- When Miss Mannin reached the . other side of the Caspian and started on the road to Samarkand, sho was f struck with the feverish movement to Europeanise Asia. . r The same quality struck her in bamf hrkand' itself," which is being hurried into modernism. As Miss Mannin says, it already hangs ugly European clothes upon its body, and is. in the process of hanging Ugly European notions of civilisat’.Sfl upon its wakening consciousness, its philosophy invaded and inundated by western materialism. The-journey to Moscow from lash- ' kent meant five days on the train, for the journey is 2,000 miles.