LONDON JOTTINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17493, 29 August 1928, Page 5

LONDON JOTTINGS.

LONDON, June 9. Theatrical Garden Party. The date of the Theatrical Garden Party has been advanced a week from the 19th, as first planned, to Tuesday, June 12, and in view of the wet summer last year, when, for the first time in twenty years, the party was held in the rain, the organisers have made arrangements which ensure that practically the whole of the Royal Hospital grounds in Chelsea will be under cover. it is interesting and satisfactory to note that every theatre in the West End will be represented, and a special feature will be run by the 8.8. C. A Brilliant Season. The season’s first month has gone by very brilliantly. London is crowded, not only with our own people returned from the country and abroad, but with visitors from the Colonies, America, and the Continent. The opera opened in a pageant of colour, and as for the early Courts, debutantes, in their lovely frocks and carrying ostrich feather fans and bouquets, rejoiced at Court in trains far shorter than those which had gone before them in other times. Dances have been given night after night, with chaperones once more in evidence; the theatres and concert halls and picture galleries have been full, and the restaurants crowded. All’s right in the world of Belgravia and Mayfair 1 Princess Pat’s Talent. It came as a surprise, save to Lady Patricia Ramsay’s personal friends, when invitations for a private view one day last month of her paintings and drawings were sent out by Messrs Goupil from their Galleries. The Duke of Connaught, who is proud of his daughter’s talent (one which she and her sister, the late Crown Princess of Sweden, had inherited in equal measure from their aunt, Princess Louise Duchess of Argyll), arrived in London from Cap Ferrat before the opening of the show. Even in early childhood Princess Patricia was fond of painting flowers, and did some little studies of them which, it is told, she used to send as “surprises" to Queen Victoria. I can remember how she and Lady Margery Manners (now Lady Anglesey) and Miss Viola Tree, and one or two other girls, used to draw and paint together in the mornings at Clarence House. And it is Lady Margery’s mother, Violet, Duchess of Rutland,'who has examples of her work on the walls of this year’s Royal Academy. M.Ps. Give Dances. This ~month Lady Iveagh, M.P., is giving a dance for her debutante girl, Lady Honor Guinness, to which many young people are looking forward tremendously. it is even hoped that the Prince .of Wales may put in an appearance that night. Then another popular M.P., Lady Astor, is giving a dance, and invitalions from many other prominent hostesses have already been sent out. —London correspondent.