"A LOVELY PARTY."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21100, 6 February 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)

"A LOVELY PARTY."

PRINCESS' MUSICAL EDUCATION

TEACHING HER SISTER. Princess Elizabeth is learning to play tho piano, and sits down each morning to practice her scales diligently, though she probably does as other little girls do, and looks wistfully out tho window, we are told. She was taken to her first concert recently, when with hundreds of other children she went to the third of Mr. Robert Mayer's concerts for children at tho Central Hall, Westmnister. The Princess sat with her mother the Duchess of York, and listened with rapt attention. Her gaze wandered a little when Dr. Malcolm Sargeant, the conductor of the orchestra, explained the meaning of musical terms, and tho use of tho various orchestral instruments. The little Princess is small, and might well look away, but tho older children found the lecture fascinating, while tho grown-ups who accompanied them were glad to acquire this usoful information. When the concert finished tho Princess was taken to meet Mr. Robert Mayer. She chatted to him at once in her natural, friendly manner. "It was a lovely party," she said. " I did not think it would bo such fun." Mr. Mayer said he was very glad she had enjoyed it. Then she looked tiioughful. "" Next time I come," she asked, "Do you think we could have some 'tea, and make it a tea party?" Mr. Mayer said that he would have to think about that. Princess Elizabeth is beginning her education in earnest; she is already taking French lessons, and each day she has gymnastic exercises. Rite is learning to dance, too, but her happiest hours are still her play hours. She has become extremely interested in Princess Margaret, who is now fifteen months of age, and old enough to be n companion to her sister. Princess Elizabeth has embarked on the important task of teaching her baby sister the letters of the alphabet. She explains to her the mysteries of the alphabet bricks on which she learned her letters. The letters arc gaily painted and nailed to bricks, and while the child builds a house of bricks he is handling letters all the time, and quickly learns their shape.