Incidents in the Mall

Southland Times, Issue 20228, 13 July 1927, Page 13

Incidents in the Mall

London, May 26. “They’re fairies,” said a little girl in the Mall last night, lifted up by her mother to look into one of the long fine of motorcars taking debutantes to the second Court of the season at Buckingham Palace, writes the Daily Mail. “If they a’Te fairies,” replied her mother, “then one of them is going to be a fairy lawyer.” Inside the car were a middle-aged woman and four girls, one blonde and three brunettes. One of the brunettes was studying a book entitled “Roman Law.” The party consisted of Lady Moulden. her three daughters, the Misses . Verna, Patricia, and Joan Hackett, and Miss Teesdale Smith. Lady Moulden is the wife of Sir Frank Moulden, who was Lord Mayor of Adelaide during the Australian visit of the Prince of Wales, and her three daughters are the children of her first marriage, with the late Sir John Winthrop Hackett, of Perth. Her daughter Patricia is studying for the Bar, and her preoccupation with Roman Law greatly interested those onlookers who saw what she was doing. “I have got an exam, to-morrow,” she said to a Daily Mail reporter, “and I can’t afford to lose any time.” “Verna is studying medicine,” said Lady Moulden, “and Joan, the youngest, is studying languages.” Another great crowd assembled in the Mall to watch the procession of motor-cars to the palace. “They are prettier than last year’s” was the opinion of an elderly woman after a critical inspection of the debutantes as they passed. One of the debutantes at Tuesday night’s presentation, Miss Pamdla Guest, who was presented by her mother, Mrs Rhuvon Guest, told a Daily Mail reporter yesterday that she waited in the Mall from about 6.30 p.m. until nearly 9 p.m. “It was very tiring,” she said. “I did not find the attentions of the crowd very embarrassing. Everybody seemed very pleased to see the people who were going to the Court. I heard a large number of the comments of the crowd, and I think most of them were complimentary.” Miss Nanette Norris, daughter of Sir H. G. Norris, said: “One or two of the comments were not very pleasant. I took the experience as being just part of the routine.”