A MAID IN MAYFAIR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 243, 14 October 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)

A MAID IN MAYFAIR.

HORRIBLE MAKE-UP.

WOMAN TO CONTROL.

(From Our London Lady Correspondent.)

The Duchess of York spent her 33rd birthday preparing in the main for the journey to Scotland on which she started in tlio evening with Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose. The Duchess and the Princesses stayed at Glamis Castle until toward the end of the month, in order that the Princess Pose might celebrate her birthday in the home of her birth. From Glamis the Duke and Duchess and the children went on to Birkhall. The Duke 0 £ York joined the Duchess at Glamis.

" PROMENADE ANGLAIS." Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin have left for „4ix-les-Bains and Mr. Baldwin will have another opportunity to indulge in his jaunts in the countryside around. He walks anything between 10 and 15 miles a day, and there is hardly a pathway in the vicinity that he does not know. When he was younger and thought nothing of a 20-mile walk a day, he spent a month at Aix every year for nearly 20 years. He would strike a beeline across country, and farmers and occupiers always gave liini the courtesy of crossing their land in the courso of jus "promenade Anglais."

I SALE BARGAINS. The pre-holiday rash to secure bargains at the sales Las exceeded all expectations. One shopkeeper told me that he was left with a "practically empty stockroom," all ready to receive tie new season's goods. But you can still buy a perfect little model 6ilk gown for under £2. And a seaside hat of stitched linen or felt for 5/, to say nothing of extremely smart linen and pique evening dresses offered for £1 or so apiece. The reason for these drastic reductions is, I am told, that autumn clothes are to he cut on quite different lines from those of the summer season, and it will not bo possible to "palm off" even dance dresses as new goods once the changed fashions become known. UGLY SWANK. No wonder country folk, whose villages are near holiday coast resorts, are wrath. Their peaceful dignity is I invaded in broad daylight by hordes of people, who look to have just come from a Chelsea Arts Ball, only in very inferior and inartistic fancy dress. Buxom young women, who imagine they are successfully aping the smart set, parade in garish beach pyjamas, their faces thickly painted and their mouths hideous with lipstick, smoking cigarettes with that comic abandon peculiar to the stage adventuress of Victorian days. These distressing symptoms, which destroy the charm of rural quietude, arc pure swank. On the trippery seaside beach, the pseudo-smart set would pass unnoticed. So they use their cheap second-hand cars to invade places where their vulgarity is sure to cause a sensation. GHASTLY MAKE-UP. Parents of modern flappers addicted (o sensational make-up should thank their lucky stars these daring damsels do not employ the sort used by artistes getting ready for television performances. It would cure 50 per cent of the stage-struck gallants who haunt stage doors if they saw their footlight fancies in their full grease-paint make-up. Even the most lovely stage actress, or cinema star, viewed close up in these circumstances, looks slightly repulsive. Butf their appearance is nothing to the ( horrible one made by television actors and actresses ready for work. Owing to technical difficulty in transmitting various shades by television, it is essential to paint eyelids pink, lips a vivid blue, and hair a sort of shimmery lead foil colour. Thus accoutred, the most lovely actress, or the handsomest actor, looks like a ghost who has gone mouldy, and just escaped from a damp cemetery.

LURE OP THE CARAVAN. Caravan holidays are becoming not only popular but fashionable. Lots of society people are taking them this summer. The late Lord Rosebery's elder daughter, Lady Sybil Grant, is making her 25th caravan trip, this time through the most beautiful parts of Scotland. She does not use a motordrawn caravan, but a horse, and travels absolutely alone. Lady Sybil is probably the only holder of a street hawker's license whose name appears in Debrett. Lady Arthur Grosvenor is another titled caravan enthusiast. She makes regular caravan tours, and once won a wager by disguising herself as a gipsy fortune teller, deceiving even her Dim friends as to her identity. Some motor-drawn caravans are sumptuous affairs, but the real caravan experts 'ravel modestly, like George Borrow's friends, and some are welcome guests at gipsy camps.

THE UNOFFICIAL COWES. The Cowes fortnight means, for Fleet Street, society afloat, the Royal Yacht I Squadron, and the most exclusive eea- ! side lawn in the world. But there is j just as democratic a side to Cowes a s there is to Ascot, and a far jollier on e. Alongside tho famous yachts, owned or chartered by semi-millionaires Md manned by professional yachtsmen, Mere is another yachting world afloat st Cowes. This is made up of all sorts ar| d sizes of minor craft, owned by '"odest city workers, often on a syndicate basis, and staffed by the owners a »d their friends. These yachtsmen are outside the Cowes R.Y.S. pale, but have just as merry a time as anybody, and n 'anage to do it 011 a hundredth part of the cost. Mixed crews are common enough, and so are exclusively feminine ones. The yachting girl combines lipstick and a lugsail, and manages both "pertly. Eton crops and duck trousers are the feminine uniform afloat. SUPERWOMAN WANTED. The London City Council is in quest ot a superwoman. This prodigy is Ranted to undertake the new role of ousekeeper-in-cliief in control of the ornestic side of 70 London hospitals, ■-"o must have a strong personality, oeeans of feminine tact, a scientific "owledge of big finance as applied to ® a rketing, an infallible sense of dietary co ™bined with a quick eye for a good co °k, and a Kitchener outsize in brains. This sounds, to the masculine layman, a tolerably compressive category of qualifications, and to justify the description s "perwoman," but apparently there is ardly a suburban road where one or w ° ladies are not fully persuaded they '® the right women for the job. It nt ® really amusing to seo iiow the post is eventually filled, and whether . 16 successful applicant has graduated n domestic science at a university or in a 60 « P kitchen. i