South African Pictorial - Volume 17 (Jul-Dec 1923)

20 SOUTH AFRICAN PICTORIAL. DecemBer 8, 1923. See EEE gE EE EERIE aT /BOSTON WALLPAPER CO.. LTD. | | RE-PAPER NOW AND Rial York Buildings, Kerk Street, : Call and inspect Py oan Roa or write for Samples J OHAN N ESBURG. eg interesting one, and in between times we sang all the Scotch songs and finished up with the stately classic: ‘* Just a wee deoch-an’-doris.’’ Did we gang hame? We did not! To the souper dansant in the ball-room was the next move, but I want to tell you of the wonderful gowns first, of course. Some of the Gowns. Mrs. John Orr wore a very elegant gown of rust-coloured charmeuse, the corsage swathed over a gold lace chemisette and the sleeves being of georgette in the same shade. Mrs. Millar came in a pretty jade-green frock with lace sleeves. Mrs. Alexander Aiken had on black taffetas and laces, her bouffant skirt being inset with laces. Mrs. Langley Levy came in powder-blue silk edged with pearls with applique leaves in gold—a very chic gown. Mrs. Rendall wore black with tunic skirt of black embroidered in gold tracery. Mrs. W. Dalrymple was smart in black with wonderful Egyptian embroideries on the apron skirt and an obi sash at the back. Here shoes were jade-green and had the new low heel. Mrs. Gemmill was much admired in gold tissue embroidered in bright colours, and her Spanish shawl! of white silk with deep blue fringes and blue flowers was greatly envied. Mrs. J. Thompson wore black with royal-blue and black se¢quin overdress. Mrs. Grant Smith came in mauve brocade with georgette sleeves. Mrs. D. R. C. Philip was very chic in a flowered gown of pale greys. pink and green, with a large rose placed at the side of one shoulder. Mrs. A. W. Bellamy (Cape Town) was with her. Mrs. McKechnie came in primrose with bronze leaves forming a design on the gown. Mrs. L. E. Neame was much admired in lilac, a straight corsage with the full skirt ruched on at the hips. A trail of flowers in rose and green formed a chic trimming. Mrs. R. D. McKenzie came in deep purple georgette with an Egyptian sash swathed round the hips and fastened in front with a diamante ornament, Miss Alexander, R.R.C., wore a chic black gown, and Mrs. Watt came in black charmeuse with georgette sleeves. Among the 200 guests it would be impossible to tell you of everyone, and when, after Sir William Dalrymple had proposed the toast of ‘‘ Our Guests,’’ they sang “‘ Will ye no come back again? ’’ I promised very fervently to do so. Herschel Henlere. There is an exceedingly good programme at the Empire this week and I know you will all love it. Having been, did you like Herschel Henlere, the wonderful pianist? Did your feet ache to dance when he played his fox-trot, ‘‘ Kismet,’’ and did you join in the songs? You are far too dignified to tell me if you did really, but I am sure you could not resist it. Young and old sang with equal fervour the night I was there. Well, if you like him on the stage, you would adore St. Mary's Bidgs., Phone 5169 him in private life. Does he look the same? No, very much younger, for he is quite a boy— a boy with the same mane of bright hair, with Box 3000, Kerk Street, Johannesburg. NMiadame Mosinger CORSET SPECIALIST American Shapes. Front d: Back Lacing. Parisian Models. Whalebone Fittings. Maternity Corsets. Rust-proof Steels. All Elastic Corsets. Spiral Steels. Matd’s Corsets. Elastic Brassieres. Abdominal and Medical Belts. ~ a high _ intelpe See eee lectual forehead CORSETS MADE TO ORDER. and = clear-cut features, the eyes of a visionary and the Catatogues and Self-measurement Forms on Application, fingers of a _ genius. Two things strike you _ at once—his extreme modesty when talking about himself and his marvellous sense of humour, and it is that sense of humour that ‘helps you to enjoy his act so much. He never thinks of himself when playing; he enjoys it so much that he wants you to enjoy it also, and it is so in every turn of his life. He tells you a story, illustrated with slender hands darting here and there; he wants you to “‘ get it ’’ exactly as he does—and you do. Mr. Henlere likes ragtime, for the rhythm fascinates him, and he tells how, at the Hippodrome at Brighton, H.R.H. the Duke of York was present with Sir Arthur Grenville, they both being the guests of Mr. Harry Preston, of Brighton, and he (Henlere) came to the front of the stage and asked should he play ragtime or classical music, and H.R.H. called out: ‘* Let’s have some ragtime!’’ ‘‘ The house went mad,’’ said Henlere; ‘‘ they all adore the Duke of York at home.’’ You will have heard Herschel Henlere’s wonderful fox-trot, ‘‘ Kismet,’’ as I mentioned before, and he has a new number just composed which he intends to call ‘‘ The Monkey Gland.’’ He went out to the Riverside Hotel at Umgeni, when he was at Durban last week, and it was the first time he had seen monkeys running wild; and the noises they made and the baboons across the river gave him the idea, and you’ll all just love it. ‘‘ The World's Sweetheart ’’ Mr. Heniere knows very well, for he was one of the first to go on the films. D. W. Griffith, hearing him play one evening, asked him to play again for him and to imagine that he was interpreting the music of a friend, a famous composer, now dead, and that he was deeply moved. This he did with such success that he was engaged at once for the cinema, which was then—I am speaking of 1907—not half so far advanced,—in fact, not a quarter, one might say—as it is to-day. So he played with Mary Pickfrd, Arthur Johnstone, Florence Lawrenze, Blanche Sweet and little Mae Marsh, a school-girl then, in her first picture. And Mr. Henlere was not a “‘ super ’’; for a very long time he played leads. ‘‘ Do I like the films?’’ the said in answer to my question. ‘‘ Very much, but of course music is my passion and I love the closer contact it gives me with the audience. Sports? I adore Rummy,’’ with a whimsical smile, ‘‘ and dancing, of course.’’ You will notice in all this nothing of the success he has had, for Herschel Henlere is one of the most modest of men and one of the most interesting. Superstitious? He carries a rabbit-foot always with him. Human? Very, with the most intense love already for this country and its people. 0, you see, he likes us, and of course we like him. An Interview With Malcolm Scott. My impression of Malcolm Scott? As an artist his reputation speaks for itself and cannot be enhanced by any words of mine. As a man? Good-natured and full of wit, a man to whom humour is second nature and whose life is his art. He is the brother of Admiral Sir Percy Seott, of course, whom so many South Africans remember, and he writes his own acts always. The magnificent *SSSSCOSCKEAORSCSCSCESSCSSSACsABSeSCeRnSCAReaGgeuS SOSSSSSSCOSSS SSSA SHS SeeeHCCsaaaeeD, SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION AND EXPRESSION Julius Royston. Late of Mrs. Patrick Campbell, W. S. 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