VIOLET HAIR

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 14, 16 July 1936, Page 19

VIOLET HAIR

A middle-aged woman with violet hair attracted considerable attention in.the foyer of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, in the interval of "Die Walkure," stajfes a London writer. With her p\le violet hair, which matched her mauve-grey eyes, she wore a Chinese opera cloak of rich whitf silk embroidered with multi-coloured silks.

She is Mrs. M. Scott, of Wilton Crescent Mews, Belgrave Square, states a London correspondent. She told me she thought in some cases it was far more attractive to have hair of a pale violet colour if Nature decreed grey hair at comparatively a young age. "I think there is nothing better than silvery-grey hair; but iron-grey hair is not so attractive, and I think it would make it far more becoming if more ■ people had • their hair dyed in prettier shades."

anxiously. . In the Royal Box were Princess Helena Victoria and Princess Marie Louise. ■ With them were the Norwegian Minister, Count Preben Ahlefeldfc-Laurvig, and Countess Ahle-feldt-Laurvig. ' . j

Every seat was taken. A few women were in black,, but the majority respected the -King's wish that they should wear ■ coloured evening dresses.

At the end of the last act there were 15 curtain calls, an unprecedented number, and the audience cheered and called, for an encore for ten minutes.

It was one of -the most enthusiastically received debuts that Covent Gar-, den has ever 'known—even' the members of the orchestra applauded.

After .the performance ,Mme. Plagstad;told ;the; "Daily Telegraph's" representative how V>Hased she was with the British audience.

"All. the "time i'was afraid-that I would cdugh'or sneeze, my cold was so bad," she said. "Tomorrow I am going to have medical-treatment, and I shall rest until'my next appearance on Friday. My head still aches, but the wound is healed," she added, referring to the accident at Covent Garden when a powder box fell on her head.