HOSPITALITY AT HOME

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 57, 17 September 1928, Page 13

HOSPITALITY AT HOME

THE VICTORIA LEAGUE THREE MONTHS' ACTIVITIES (From "The Post's" . Representative.) LONDON, 10th August. The Victoria League has a good record o[ hospitality to overseas visitors''for the three months from 20th April to 20th July. The number of visitors actually in touch with the London headquarters anii receiving personal invitations during this period was 1037. .This figure does not include the overseas students' list of about. 360. The total number of invitations sent out from SI, Cromwell, road, was 6964. ; Parties given at the headquarters included :i reception for Mr. and.Mrs. Amery on 15th May, three ofiiee tea parties, and one evening party for members of the Scottish Australian Delegation. The total number invited to these was 1882. A party of 100 Naval ratings of H.M.A.S. Australia were entertained to "high, tea" j on 16th June, ten officers being invited to dinner by Sir Archibald and Lady Biikniyre at the same time. A bridge tournument for overseas visitors, the proceeds of which were given to the Victoria- League general funds, was held on 11th June, and attended by about.so visitors. A dance for students and the younger visitors took place at the Victoria League House on Ist Juno, the number invited to which was 232. The total number'of. people invited to 81. Cromwell . road, during the three months was 2214. Four afternoon "at homes'' were given by the Victoria League by the Dowager Countess of Jersey, Viscountess Allendale, Lady Beatrice Ormsby-Gore, and Lady Apsley. The number of visitors invited was 1176. Lists of names for invitation were given to London hostesses, including Mrs. Anstruther, Mrs. Neville Chamberlain, and the Countess of Clarendon. • The number of visitors invited in this way was 325. Hostesses in all parts of the country have invited overseas visitors to their house parties. The total number of guests invited to these' country parties was . 1951. The number of guests invited to spend the day at Oxford by the Victoria League branch was 55G. The number invited in the same way by the Cambridge Victoria League branch was 324. Sixty guests were invited direct by other country hostesses to whom the league supplied names. Other forms of hospitality included tickets for the zoo, Ranelagh, Roehampton, concerts, balls, flower shows, Lord's, The Sons of the Clergy Festival in St. Paul's, the Botanical Gardens Fete,, and the Inspection of the Yeoman of the Guards.