A LETTER FROM LONDON.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17502, 8 September 1928, Page 15 (Supplement)

A LETTER FROM LONDON.

THE DOINGS OF MANY PEOPLE. LONDON, July 8. London has been very gay with balls, parties and weddings in the past few weeks, so my news to you this week is much and varied. News from the Continent tells of j-olly times, and Deauville appears to he mo-re crowded and exotic than ever ’this year, with the season already in full swing. Lord Northesk is there; Miss Pola Negri is there, too, and so is Miss Peggy Hopkins Joyce, the American j actress, who has had four husbands. During the past week a regatta has been held, at which Mr Tom Sopwith, of flying fame, won many prizes in the 12-metre class. The hour for dinner grows laterr and later. The reason for this is that every beauty wishes to make a spectacular entrance at the Casino restaurant, and you cannot make an entrance properly unless there are people there to see you make it. In consequence, everyone of importance puts off her arrival as late as possible. In the harbour, Mr Macomber’s yacht, Crusader, has attracted the usual attention. In -the Casino the Greek syndicate have already started taking the bank, so one may he sure, that all the biggest gamblers will flock to play against them. Beach creations —one cannot call them bathing dresses —grow more fantastic every day. The most exaggerated so far has been that of the young lady who goes about in fancy dress disguised as a flsh with silver scales. In her hand she carries a large silver ball to match the costume.

The Mrs Grundys of the Upper Thames, by the way, would be somewhat shocked at the lack of selfconsciousness of bathers anxious to get sunburnt. No Opportunities for ‘‘Gate Crashing.” A friend who has just returned from Perthshire tells me that the uninvited guest was given no opportunities for “gate crashing" at the wedding of Lord Scone, Lord Manstlcld’s only son and heir, and Miss Dorothea Carnegie, the daughter of Sir Lancelot and Lady Carnegie. The approaches to Scone Palace, ' the ancient home -of the Mansiields, where the wedding took place, were closely guparded at eacli entrance by estate employees, who carefully scrutinised cacti invitation card. Altogether there were 1 200 guests including tenants and public representatives, invited to Hie festivities, and as they arrived in motor ears or motor coaches, each vehicle was examined to make sure that nobody entered by this means without an invitation . After making a short stay in one of his father’s shooting boxes, high up in Hie hills, among some of Hie wildest and grandest scenery in Perthshire, Lord Scon-i and his bride are going to tour •the Continent. Other Weddings. A number of interesting weddings are hiking place in London this week. To-morrow afternoon at Hie Guards’ Chapel, Wellington Barracks, Captain Arthur Paget, elder twin son of Sir Arthur Paget, is to marry Miss Rosemary Lowry-Corry; and at St. Margaret’s, Westminster, there is the marriage of Mr .John Ropner and Miss .loan Redhead, daughter of Janet Lady Bacon. Mr R. T. Janson and Miss K. Workman, daughter of Mrs Workman, of 3 Scamore Place, are being married at St. Columbia’s, Pont Street, on Wednesday; on Thursday Lieut.Commander Swinley, R.N., and Miss Jaeosa Carnegie, daughter of Canon Carnegie, will have their wedding at St. Margaret’s; and on Friday, at Brompton Oratory, Mr John O’Brien will marry Miss Moira Brasscy, eldest daughter of Captain R. B. Brasscy. The Duchess of Sutherland’s Ball. •Most of the guests at the fancydress ball given by the Duchess of Sutherland were still in bed at midday yesterday, for dancing had gone on till

dawn In the red and white pavilion erected on the tennis court. Besides the Prince of Wales, whom few people recognised in a beard, there was Prince George, who was in a party with the Marquis de Gasa Maury, all dressed as Little Lord Fauntieroys, and Prince Henry, who wore a long black mask-like robe. The costumes that stood out best' from the dizzy whirl were those of Lord Portarlington as a 17th century dowager, Lady Louis Mountbatten and the Hon. Mrs Norton as white hens, accompanied by Lord Louis Mountbatten as a black rooster. “Though a number of people have “doubles” it does not often occur that they find themselves sitting at the next table to their “double" in a restaurant. But this is what happened in a dance restaurant in the Haymarket, which I visited on Tuesday night. Sitting at adjoining tables in the corner were Lord Hothflold’s daughter, the Hon. Anne Tul'ton, and Lord Kinross’s daughter, the Hon. Pamela Balfour, who hear an extraordinary resemblance to one another. Miss Tul'ton was with her fiance, Captain Owen Tudor, whom she marries next week, While Miss Balfour was in a party which included Lady Seafield and Lord Furneaux. Marion Davies In England. Miss Marion Davies reaches Plymouth to-morrow on her way to Paris, whence she will return to London in October. Besides being the uncrowned queen of Hollywood’s Aim society, she is one of the most delightfully ingenuous women, as well as one of tiie richest in-,America.

At the Metro Uold.wyn studios her private dressing-room holds the place of honour on Hie green lawns amid that small city of otliees and studio' buildings. is is the size of a small country house in tiic Spanish manner. Here at lunch Lime Miss Davies, still in her make-up, entertains celebrities from all the world over in her own enchanting and informal manner.She is genuinely adored not only by her close friends, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Piekford, and Chaplin, hut by everyone who works witli her. Though gay, witli the freshness and charm of a nice child, once she is in the studio siie works like a Trojan, with the result that her technique has improved from lllm Lo fllin. But perhaps Miss Davies’s greatest talent, unsuspected by the Him public, lies in her sweet voice and in her astonishing gift of mimicry. She can make herself up to look exactly like such contrasting people as Pola Negri and Gloria Swanson, as well as being able to reproduce all their mannerisms quite uncannily. Hot weather is coming with a vengeance to us here and next letter I hope to have lots to tell you about the lovely frocks of which one sees more and more each day about printed chiffon it will be, which is all the rage and looks so charmingly dainty and fresh. ROSEMARY ANN.

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