TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 43, 11 May 1928, Page 6

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

Miss Belle Renaut, Miss Belle Renaut, the clever and popular young singer who appears reguJarly at 3YA as a member of Miss Fran-’ ces Hamerton’s Melodious Four, has gained her J,.A.B. and won the prize of £25 given by the Associated Board of the Royal Academy and Royal College, for the South Island students. Miss Renaut has received all her training in singing from Miss Mariats Woodhouse, I,.R.A.M, {also a 8YA artist), studying theory and- ear-training under Miss J. Black, Mus.Bac. She has been. studying for only three years, and is to be congratulated on attaining such yemarkable proficiency in a comparafively short space of time, Spiritual Snobbery. Once, in discussing some scandal | %n the Church of England with a Quaker friend, he said to me, "I do not know how you tolerate such people jnside the Church. ..fhe Society of Friends would have found means of: freezing them out long ago.’ With joy I realised that no one is ever frozen out of the Church of England: no one-or hardly any one-excom-municated from her altars, At her most sacred service, the Holy Communion, saint and sinner kneel together; the sweating employer and the slum landlord with their victims; the profligate with the virtuous. This scandalises the virtuous sometimes, ZI do not know why, for nothing seems more certain than that we are quite incapable of judging who are the virtuous and who not. For my part, | the social snobbery of the Church of England is less odious than the spiritual snobbery which is the besetting pin of more exclusive societies, a>

We shall never all worship in the game way, but I think we shall some day recognise that all who love Christ are of one communion, and we shall unchurech nobody. In the meantime, I cannot wish that differences of temperament and genins that exist among: us should be ironed out into a flat | monotony when we approach God in publie worship, or even wish that we were all alike. I feel at home in a Church of England service; I do not desire all men to feel as I do, and ZX respect and even like the differences which I must believe not offensive to God, who made us all individual and different.-A. Maude Royden in "I BeHeve in God," — we _- = 0

Poverty No Bar. At one time to be well dressed meant to be rich. ‘Lo-day poverty is no bar to elegance, It is,indeed, a social revolution, because as the standard of dress rises, so the standard of conduct rises also. ‘That is why manufacturers have presented a new fabric

to Civilisation,-

'Mr.

H. G.

Williams

eariamentary secretary to the British Board of Trade. Season’s New Colour. At the third exhibition of British artificial silk goods opened recently at Holland Park Hall, London, there was the new colour-mavis, the hue of a thrush’s egg; the mannequin parade, in which the new afternoon frock, With its drooping hem, sivod halfway

Films for Children. between the short business frock and the long evening dresses; the intriguing new long trousers for women tennis players, both charming and utilitarian, and the weatherproof evening wraps, beautiful and fragile in ap-. penrance, yet rendering the wearer superior to a shower. Every scrap of artificial silk in the exhibition is all-British, and it has been used in every form for which real silk has hitherto been ulitised. In 1927 the production of artificial silk yarn in England was half as much again as it was in 1925. ‘To-day the output of artificial silk is three times that of the old form of silk. The Cape Jumper Suit. Among the most noticeable things in the women’s wear is the new cape jumper suits. This cape is going to replace the sleeveless coat. It is made in several styles, but the most popular seems to be tied loosely about the neck and to reach a little below ‘the waist. Itis being used on long coats, too, but here it is made in "spiral fashion, which gives a double effect, like one cape placed above another at the back but single at the sides. ‘These coats, which are _ sleeveless, ‘have long scarf collars, and are being made for both day and evening wear. Colour in Sport. | The sports girl is to be gayer than ever. Joseph’s coat could have been ‘nothing to the new sports coat. Foundations of, say, white flannel, are covered in wool embroidery or crochet, which embraces all the colours of the rainbow in, probably, some dozens of shades. Sometimes silk and wool are used together, and here and there applique work is introduced as well.