WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 269, 23 March 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen"). SOCIAL NEWS. Theatre.—Although the building was not overcrowded for Hiss Amy Castles' concert, still the audience was a very appreciative one, and, I think, the performers keenly realised it, because they gave their encores so spontaneously. Miss Castles looked charming in a white satin charmeuse, with berthe and front panel of silver bugled lace. She also wore a diamond butterfly on corsage, a gift from Mr. J. C. Williamson after taking the part of "Madame Butterfly." Amongst the audience I noticed Mrs. Paul, who wore black silk, with blue opera coat; Mrs. Leslie Webster, eau-de-nil crepe-de-chine, cream lace berthe; Mrs. Fraser, rich black silk; Mrs. Penn, cream; Miss E. Penn, pale blue muslin; Miss Dowling, white muslin; Mrs. Capel, black silk; Misses Capel (2), black satin; Mrs. Buckman, black silk; Miss Buckman, cream; Miss 0. Buckman, winecolored silk, with cream lace berthe; Miss I. Buckman. cream silk; Mrs. W. Webster, black silk; Miss Webster, cream, relieved with moss-green velvet; Miss W. Webster, pale blue voile, finished with cream lace; Mrs. Fred Robertson, cream Louisine silk; Miss Bedford, black talTeta, piped with emerald green; Miss Fitzgerald, cream silk; Mrs. Heard, cream chiffon taffeta; Mrs. E. Gilmour, Mrs. S. Teed, etc. Bridge party.—Last Saturday evening Miss Keitha Saxton gave a most enjoyable bridge party as a farewell to Miss Ethel Leatham, whose marriage is to take place on April 26. The prizes were won by Miss J. Fitzherbert and Mr, Morton, and those of the competition were Miss G. Kyngdon and Mr. Eric Cutfield. Miss Saxon received her guests in a pale blue striped voile, trimmed with cream silk, embroidered net; Mrs. Saxton, black silk, relieved with pale pink shoulder scarf; Miss Leatham, pale blue clirystalline, finished with bands of silver sequinned net and satin ribbon; Miss Kyngdon, cream silk; Miss Cutfield, cream taffeta; Miss E. Gray (Welling-, ton), pretty pale brown jewelled netj over pale blue satin charmeuse, decolletage finished with Oriental trimming; Miss Standish, white muslin, relieved with black; Miss W. George, ivory crepe de chine, trimmed with silk embroidered net; Miss Blundell, white taffeta; Miss Chilman, cream crepe de chine; Miss V. Simpson, vieux rose crystalline; Miss Webster, cream silk; Miss Wade, white net, with touches of saxe-blue; Miss Fitzgerald, dark green velvet; Miss Loris Fitzherbert, scarlet velvet, berthe of real lace; Miss D. Whitcombe, white silk; and Messrs Saxton, Perham, Kin", A. Bewley, Johnstone, C. Gray, Burgess! Matthews, G. Pott, Cutfield and Drs. O'Callaghan and Milroy. ! PERSONAL ITEMS. Dr. and Mrs. Truby King, who have been on a visit to Rotbrua, are the guests of Mrs. Thomas King. Miss Brewster, who has been the guest of Mrs. Payne, of Waverley, returned home by the mail train last night. Mrs. Brewster ! Miss Ruby Clarke have gone for a short trip to Mokau. i Miss Hunter, who has been the guest of Mrs. Atkinson, left on Moflday by the Rarawa for her homo in Hainilton. Miss Fitzgerald, of the Collier Piano Co., on account of ill-health, is going away for a three months' trip, so durin? her absence Miss Olive Buckman wifl take her place. Mrs. (Dr.) Allen, of Dunedin, is on a visit to her mother (Mrs. Newton King). PRIEST AND ACTRESS. ROMANCE OF THE STAGE AND THE MONASTERY. Vienna, February 3. Frau Koschinski-Klotzl, the charming Viennese actress, recently married an expriest, who has now vanished. "What attracted me in Father Kosehinski," she confessed, 'was his great naivete—he enjoyed the simplest pleasures like a child. For fifteen years lie had been in a monastery and he knew nothing of the world. I well remember his joy the first time he saw the fair in the Prater here." Frau Kischinski described her husband as aged twenty-seven, tall and slim, with fair hair and an aesthetic cast of countenance. She is herself a very b*autifci woman, dark and vivacious. They met by chance last summer. The priest left the Church, adopted the Protestant religion, and at Eger, near (Maricnbad, he married the actress last July. Frau Kischinski showed a quantity of his love-letters. "Written in a fine, scholarly hand, they expressed the most fervent and poetic sentiments. He would send her as many as two or three telegrams andfive or six letters in a day. "But his jealousy was something terrible?" she exclaimed. "I had to send | all my collection of autographs from | theatrical friends to a safe deposit—he wanted to burn them. "When he came to Marienbad to see me he would miss his last train back, and spend the whole of the night walk- | ' n " U P ftnd down in front of my window. My mother implored him to have some thought for his reputation. She said that the sight of a priest in his frock, bringing quantities of hothouse (lowers to me would lead to scandal, but he took no notice." After their marriage the ex-priest said lie could not bear the idea of his wife going on the stage. So she abandoned her career and her husband endeavored to get some commercial training. Then, the actress said, the Church authorities attempted to win the young man back . Telegrams in Latin—"as though the monks did not know German," she cried—were sent to him, and they appealed to her to obtain a divorce and set him free. Then during a visit she paid to friends in Germany her husband disappeared. She declares he has been "enticed" back into a monastery. Her letters and telegrams remain without replies. BEAUTIFUL ENGLISHMEN. CRITICISM OF A PRTMA DONNA'S ( ' TRIBUTE. | Berlin, February 4. Signnrina Lina Cavalieri, the Italian ' prima donna, has recently proclaimed

Englishmen, and especially English oflijcers, to be the handsomest and generally the finest specimens of manhood in the world. This opinion is discussed by "Amadis" in to-night's Tageblatt. "Anadis" admits that Englishmen may be entitled to international laurels for j beauty, "because—for the reason Signor|ina Cavalieri puts forward—they bathe oftener than other men." But opinions differ radically, however, asserts "Amadis," on Signorina Cavalieri's deduction 'that Eijglish officers are especially useful members of human society. "We men of other nationalities are duly ashamed, but we console ourselves with the reflection that men are not ex'pected both to be good-looking and to strive for glory of another kind. Important men are never handsome. Goethe and Alexander the Great, who combined genius with a beautiful exterior, were the exceptions which prove ithe rule.

r "The other notabilities of history, if they could be lined up, would resemble a collection of Barnum's freaks. Yet they are the men who achieved things and left the imprint of their personalities ■upon their epochs. One limped like Byron. Others were crooked like Schiller or Leopardi. Still another was bald like Aeschylus. Another, like Socrates, iwas frightened by horses.

■ "And not one of them was fond of ablutionary exercises, not even the Apollo-like Goethe, who semi-annually entered in his diary, with unmistakable relief, 'Bathed to-day!'"