WORKING MAYFAIR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19607, 8 April 1927, Page 7

WORKING MAYFAIR.

It is very fashionable in London's May fair -just now to -work for your daily bread. Peers and peeresses write articles for the newspapers. They give advice on house decoration, teach women how to dress and how to be beauiiluJ, ran motor garages, keep shop and do> a thousand and '•one other things for money at which their grandparent;, and e?en their parents, would have lifted up their hands aghast. A prince, two princesses and two earls with their countesses, as well as several other nobles of lesser degree, are among rlcent recruits to the night club business. The ordinary night club is boring, they decided, and thought it would be a "lark," as one of the princesses remarked, to run their own. It is, of course, to be kept really exclusive. Then there are the "Ruthyen twins," as the Hon. Margaret and Hon. Alison Hore-Ruthven, daughters of MajorGeneral Lord Ruthven, are popularly called. At present they axe acting, as the "Misses Ralli," in the chorus of a suburban pantomime, and another little activity of theirs is mannequinning. The twins, who are pretty and very modern girls, cause mudh amusement and some confusion by looking and dressing exactly alike, down to their very shoe buckles. Their elder sister, the Countess of Carlisle, has two sisters-in-law who are also workers. One is secretary to a business firm and the other is studying for the Bar. Decorating is the chosen career of Mis Cynthia Noble, daughter of Mrs.- Saxton Noble, who is a great friend of Princess Marie Louise. She has always been interested in modern schemes of decoration, and has helped many of her friends to arrange their rooms. Now, however, she has become a jeally serious deoorator, with an office in Hanfcver Square, where one can see painted furniture and all sorts of other amusing trifles for decorating modern rooms. The Hon. Mrs. Richard Norton was one of the first society women to take up the business end of film production. She now manages a fashionable cinema in the West End of London. Miss Zita Jungmann, daughter of Mrs. Richard Guinness, has adopted literature as a profession. Lady Eleanor Smith is said to earn an income of three figures by her, pen. Viscountess Falkland is a clever dressmaker at her shop in the Knightsbridge Arcade. Lady Angela Forbes, daughter of an earl and sister of a duchess, is an expert on clothes, and calls her place of business ''Peter Rabbit." Lady Muriel Willoughby, daughter of one ear] and sister-in-law of another, dresses the most elegant children in town.