A MAID IN MAYFAIR

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1938, Page 4 (Supplement)

A MAID IN MAYFAIR

LONDON". Professional men and women from all parts of Great Britain are to visit Rome, Florence and Xaples at Easter to study Italian educational, housing and social welfare schemes. The party will be welcomed by the Italian Minister of Education, and a reception is to be given in thqir honour by prince Colonna, Governor of Rome. Those who wish will also have an opportunity to meet the Pope. Students from Italian universities will act as guides and interpreters throughout the tour, and trips along the coast to country villages, and to the mountains will be arranged in addition to the study programme. An exhibition of Rome 2000 years ago, with models of buildings and houses correctly furnished in every detail is one of the attractions. The party will be able to visit schools, factories, land and development schemes, or to make special studies in any field of cultural interest they choose. Sir Evelyn , Wrench and Sir Xorman Angell are members of the organising committee, and the tour is planned with the co-operation of the British Women's Hospitality Committee. Austrians Meet Baron Franckenstein, the popular exAustrian Minister, who has left the Austrian Legation in Belgrave Square and gone to stay at a Piccadilly club, is continuing his social life in London. He was at the Goupil Gallery on Friday, where there is an exhibition of landscapes and portraits by a fellowcountryman, Carl Felkel. Felkel is a Viennese and, besides painting, is well known on the Continent as a musician [ and singer. He belongs to an artistic family, his father having been professor of drawing in Vienna and a violinist of lote. Felkel junior joined the Austrian

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army at the age of 18, quickly gained a commission and was sent to Albania and then to Rumania. After the war he continued to study at the, Vienna Academy and carried off, among other things, the coveted State Prize. He is married to a Viennese lady, daughter of an Austrian counters related to the Dukes of Sutherland. In Italy he painted Prince Chigi, Prince of Coburg, and Pope Pins XL, and in Paris he did a portrait of the Austrian Ambassador. Fresh Flower Fashions The - huge quantities of flowers brought on by the June-like March weather has resulted in a revival of the pretty vogue for using real blooms, in preference to artificial ones, for' buttonholes and evening posies and headdresses. At dances and evening parties hostesses take advantage of the glut of daffodils, narcissi, primroses, violets and all the other sprinj flowers to turn their rooms into bowers of flowers. Most of the guests wear trails of violets, roses, carnations, camellias or muta exotic or.-hids pinned to their dresses or perched among their curls. The fashion for floral bracelets, hair bands, brooches and even earrings, launched last year by a Court florist, has been taken up by the younger set, one or two of whom at dance the other night were wearing earrings, reaching almost to their shoulders, made of forget-me-nots, primroses and Devon violets. The vogue for the evening veil receives a fillip through the popularity of the floral wreath which gives a wonderfully youthful and bridal effect.

"Tinted Tykes" An awful prospect is held out for the canine race if fashionable ladies respond to the invitation to have their pot dogs tinted to match their own clothes. It is claimed that such startling metamorphoses can be affected without harm to the four-legged victims, but it may well be that, if the idea becomes popular, the tail-waggers may organise a stay-in strike or some other method of showing their resentment. Even French poodles, when their coats are clipped to ridiculous patterns, look extraordinarily self-conscious. If they become painted poodles as well they are like to die of shame. Self-respecting dogs resent even coloured ribbons round their necks, and if they are expected to parade down Bond Street in pastel shades of blue and violet and red their lot will indeed be unhappy. Their mistresses should beware. Dogs can bite as well as bark. Tring Park Everyone will be sorry if Lord Rothschild carries out hie rumoured intention of disposing of Tring Park. It has come to be regarded as one of our showplaces. especially to overseas visitors who liked to see Lord Rothschild's zoological specimens and to visit also the magnificent Shorthorn herd and the stud of shire horses which has sent so many thoroughbreds to every corner of the Dominions. To a great extent the stud as oeeri broken up and this, perhaps, has reduced Lord Rothschild's interest in the estate which covers some 4500 acres of land. If Lord Rothschild disposes of the park it will be interesting to see what becomes of the famous museum of which, his father was so intensely proud. Lord Rothschild himself ig keenly interested in zoology, but he prefers to carrv out his lesearch work near Cambridge rather than at Tring Park. °