Everyone, well, at any rate several hundred representatives of various nationality groups in Shanghai, attended the farewell tea reception which the Japanese Ambaseador to Japan and Mme, Ariyoshi held at their home on Tuesday afternoon, Only the
court m were absent. The Beltsh "ofclale' who are" observing large hole was taxed to the utmost mits and Chinese, Americans, un-oficial British, Japanese, " Italians, French and others mingled and enjoyed the bountiful repast prepared. under the direction of the Viscountess. Motono.
Viscount Motono, by the way, gained great popularity Sunday night at Mayor Wu Te-chen's soiree in honour of the Japanese Ambassador and his wife, when he read the hands of many of' the quests to tell their character. He was very discreet In his analysis and it was noticed that lovely ladies mostly received the readings.
For Sweet Charity's Sake Mme, Alfred Sze, Mrs. Li Ming and Mrs. Loy Chang have boon added to the list of patronesses for the "De Luca Ballet" which will be given on March 4, 5 and 7 for the benefit of the Fransican Sisters of the General Hospital, according to latest reports from that busy committee of arrange: ments, which is headed by Dr. Anna Walter Fearn, the chief promotor of this project which Is to False $45,000 to re-build the Sisters' orphanage, Jdestroyed by Chinese soldiers. The patroness list now includes:—Mtme, Lojacono, Mme. Quo Tai-chi, Mme. Wellington Koo, Mme. Robert Feitscher, Mme. de Weydenthal, Mme. E. Lardy, Mme. A. Alves, Mrs, Milton J. Helmick, Lady Maze, Mme. J. Krysinski, Mrs. 'T. A. Scott, Mrs, F.
Gerard, Mrs. E. Birt, Mrs, Paul Bordwell, Mrs. J. W. Carney, Mrs, IJ. M. Doyle, Mrs. Edward Ezra, Mrs Btzear, Mrs. Chester Fritz, Mr A. S. Henchman, Mrs. C. N. Holwill, Mrs. (C. T. Hutchins, Mrs. E. J. Lloyd, Mrs. 1, M. Spence and Mrs. 8, Weight.
Dr. Fearn heads the committee as president and others on the committee are Mrs. C. T. Hutchins and Mrs. J. M. Doyle, joint seeretarle [Miss Jean Armstrong publicity IMr. J. S. Chisholm, treasurer.
At a committee meeting in Dr. Fearn's Cathay Hotel sults yesterday was announced that the workers already have received excellent support and that cast of the ballets are busy at rehearsal, meeting as often Jas eight or nine times a week. Book ings for the yale performance will Jopen on Monday, February 10 and general booking will open February 17.
Shanghailanders, especially the polo playing crowd, who met and enter-Hained Mr. and Mrs, Winston Gucst Jon their visit here last spring, should be interested in the announcement of {the birth of a son to them last month, Mrs. Guest is the former Miss Helena Woolworth McCann, notable examplo—are mere fettes as unreal as Agnes Wickfleld. The others are very much alive but Janything but agreeable, Maisie "The Light That Failed" is a perfect little beast; Mrs. Gadsby had u vicious temper and could "sulk fora fort-bight over bedding out the petunias": Mr. Hauksbee Is too armour-plated Jaltogether to be endearing. The best of the lot is the old Hindu grandmother in "Kim," but she is a pure comedy piece, But virtue Is far less easy to paint than the other thing, as even Milton found when writing, "Paradise Lost."
Women Lecturers Miss Irene Ward, Conservative M.P. for Wallsend, leaves to-day for a {tour of the Baltic States to lecture, on behalf of the British Council on "How the British Govern," "Self government in the British' Empire" and "The British Woman in Politics." [She has already toured. Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Hungary' on a similar errand and by the time she has done with the Baltic will have travelled 7,000 miles in Europe lecture Ing. One is divided between admlration for the numbers of people on the [Continent who speak English (fancy Crechoslovakian expecting to. be understood in his own Language tu London!) and pity for their fond belief that they can learn froma {lecture how the British govern themselves, when the British scarcely know how they do it, 'Women lecturers have been comin, to the front of late, Miss Rose [Geaham, who is reputed to" know more about' monasticism than any Jarchaeologist in England, is Jeeturini, jon subjects connected with her speciality at King's College, London, to large audiences. Other lecture in the same series (arranged by. the JArchmological Association) are to be given by Miss Margaret Wood, Miss D. Thornley and Miss Grace [Stretton. Among politicians both. Miss Ellen Wilkinson and Miss Jenny [Lee (otherwise Mrs. Anaurin Bevan) fare effective speakers, Miss Maude Rayden, the preacher, is too well-known to need more than passing.
Politicians are naturally supposed to be able to talk, but it does not Jat all follow that they can lecture well. In fact few of them can; their calling tends to make' them too polemical. Lectures are popular in [London just now. Yet itis strange how few good lectures one hears, lecturer need not make his audience laugh, in fact he had better not try to do'so unless he has a natural gift that way. "He need not even have 2 profound knowledge of his subject: it is often a snare to him. But he must have magnetism, and that 1s Just what nine lecturers out of ten lack, Women have more of this quality than most men, but perhaps that is because without it they would not even be allowed on a platform The Lean Years Nobody who knows France ever imagined that Mme Stavisky would be convicted. French Judges and juries have a rooted dislike for sentencing, women, particularly when they" are young and beautiful. However apcaranees had to be preserved, so the trial lasted for §3 days and cost 25,000. 'There was no evidence against Mme Stavisky except that she had lived luxuriously on the proceeds fof her husband's frauds, and' even! France, where women are particularly businesslike, there must be many' wives who do' not know how their husbands make their money, Now come the lean years, To the "Daily Mail" correspondent who interviewed her "in hor, pootly furnished—Afth-floor flat." "Mme Stavsky said that, although she had loved her husband dearly, she should Feassume her maiden ame of Simon and have her children called by It, 30 that they might never know of their father's disgrace. Her one desire, [she says, is to work quietly and bring up her children; and she has had many offers of work, as barmaid, Alm actress and on the stage, all. of which she has refused. One foresees Jo dimeulty. "Many people would, for the advertisement's sake, employ "Mme Stavisky" who would hesitate Jabout taking on "Mme Simon," not rained to any particular job.
But Mme Stavisky hat had any mber of offers of marriage, "the latest fom a colonist in equatorial Africa." Perhaps the lean years will not last very long.
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