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1953.

THE TEA CUP PATH CHANGES A PIGTAILED SCHOOLGIRL INTO A DEB.

S

Now she will

curtsy to

the

Queen

AND SO YOU WANT TO BE -A DEB ? WELL, IT IS KÖT DIFFICULT BUT THERE ARE RULES TO BE KEPT

HE has emerged, from the season and who have. her gym slip, her actually curtaied to the pigtails are shorn and Queen how, havo

her mother.

For

they

by

Phoebe

Young

she has turned into quite a done it? What did they pretty girl after all. She have to do to be Debs? ought to be presented, suys First, being presented Some time in November the and "coming out" do not Lord Chamberlain announces in the girls whose necessarily go hand in hand. The Times that the Queen will hold aftemoon parties in (my) mothers and grandmothers A great many girls are pre- March for the "presentations of were presented and whose sented, but are not actually ladies at Buckingham Palace, fathers and grandfathers launched into Society. And and that the ladies wishing to went to Eton it is easy. a few of the most success ward the names

make presentations should for- The family pathway to 'ful girls socially have not possible. social success at 18 is well in fact, actually been pre- worn and kept in good order sented. by a succession of cousins and sisters who have gaily tripped their way round the fashionable ballrooms.

The announcement

то

NO be presented is straight- forward provided you follow the rules and regulations laid down by the Lord Chain berlain. But to "como out" is rouch harder-and there are

But they are in the minority what of the other 300-old girls who are dancing their way through no rules.

So now Her Excellency settles in

S

SHE HAS THE WORLD'S SECOND MOST BEAUTIFUL SMILE SAYS NANCY SPAIN

HE is the third most-talked-of woman in the world, The others are the Queen of England and Mrs Eisenhower.

да soon as

"Envelope should be marked 'Presentation* in the top left- hand corner and addressed to The Lord Chamberlain, St James's Palace, London, S.W.1.

And who may make a pre- sentation?

A mother who wishes to present her own daugliter must herself have been presented since her marriage and not been divorced.

And the ambassador said: "Never mind, honey.

Rome.

As journalist she called

Vanity Fair, magazine tcooped the world with story of MacArthur Philippines.

in

When the President of the United States appointed her ambassador to Italy, all Europe wondered... for in Italy women still play a subservient role.

Yes, she is Mrs Clare Boothe Luce, President Eisen- hower's political blue-eyed girl.

were

This

does slut, All these social engagements that it is exacting requirements, but has hard to it them in... sc determitted social aspirations having a lot of pretty einhes to for her 18-year-old, she intxt look pretty in. look ardund for a relativo de a friend who does, all who is not already presenting, someone elac other, Bian her own daughter br daughter-in-law. (In fact, thơ must not have présented afgone elso. other ihan her awn daughter or daughter-in law for the two previous years.)

It has been known for p ponsor to take on the job for a consideration. Before the war impoverished titled

women mado presentations a kind of Industry-until new rules cur tailed the number of Umbs sponsor could appear,

So the application goes off to the Lord Chamberlain who sends back a registration card. This has to be led in with the

wants to be a Deb.

full particulare of the girl who

It's so easy-i

-if.

·

HE Lord Chamberlain checks all these and if no rules have been breiten an invitation for tho presentation party will arrive.

And to the cound of South Pacific tunes from the Musi- cians' Gailery in the State Room at Buckingham Palace the Deb will duly make her curtsy.

And that's that. Easy, if you know the rules. But that is hardly "coming but" and having

□ good time-which implies going to the right parties and getting to know the right people. Imving

mony

$0

One rule far "coming out" is get on "Tild! List." is a formidable list of the. names of Deus which mothers and hostesses pass to each other over the

ten cups. Once on The Let" the door, to the most exclusive parties of tre season are thrown wide open. because their mothers know Most Debu get on "The List"

disters were presented the year other mothers. Or their cider

before and know the ropes, or they went to the right finishing school, or their brothers went to Exon

D

Eye-catching

no such BUT if a Dch has

advantageous connections, ahe hust lay to do some catching.

She can hope to be noticed at Queen Charlotte's Ball. No

difficulty getting invited to this

-you apply for tickets) give a large dance herself, in- Or the can brazen It out and

viding hundreds of people sho has never fakti

Even now, slowly getting into full swing, frantic mothers are ringing up women they haven't met för 20 years, "Dorlink, I'm giving a dates for ny Joafins on the 18th. Do you know any young men?-I've got about 50 but I want anoller. 100 at least. I'll do the Fame for you next

as the season is

year..

FIFTY YEARS of the AEROPLANE

IN

By J.W. Taylor

common with others in to France to demonstrate in a all parts of the world, that man had at last conquered way that no one's could -/doubt British nero clubs, air the air. And BO it was that on lengues and other flying or a Gummer afternoon in 1800 ganisations aro holding Wilbur established a camp at Le special events to celebrate machine on its starting rail. Ac- Mans and mounted his magic this year's fiftieth anniver- cording to Harry Harper, in the sary of the coming of fly important role of the World's ing

first air reporter this is what happened: Flying, with its jet pro- every part of the plane, Wilbur "After a careful rutiny of pulsion aircraft and stately settled himself in the pilot's airliners, has come a long seat and the engine was started the I gathered that elsewhere! and in the villa there

way since those early days up, the two chain-driven; air- odd, her other trophies garnered by the back in 1903 when two screws revolving with an

clattering noise. the famous Luce charm: a gondola, American cycle-makers, ber, as the machine started to

Even, I remem for one thing, made of wood; after several years of ex- gilde forward along its rdil, with the legend "Come to As dramatist she sat "The Venice some me" and some perimenting with motorless could hardly believe that I was Women" play to full houses in unspecified

sce this miracle of London, Paris, and New York. "amor est luce."

prizo labeled gliders, launched out on the going to

a sustained, fully-controlled construction of 1 As politician site has been a

small power-driven flight. The whole embassy-staff la Congresswoman since 1943, and still trying to trace the origin petrol engine for aerial use.. a had ged Senators remark of this one. Is there an Italian Their plan was, the then that they would leave their youth movement that has this great adventure of a first tieath-beds to campaign for her. love is light" for motto-power-driven flight.

"But I was. There, right be fore my eyes, that wonder plane Just slid off the rall and began did the brothers for one woman-for one 60 But more revealing of fragile that she looks as though heart and mind

the Wilbur and Orville Wright open flow, steadily-urbly. Then Wil- it climb into the sky. Higher it a new chapter in history, for bur brought it round in a wide, a pult of wind could blow her tonishing woman was the

in building bronze plaque of the American they succeeded

a smooth turn, winging his way Land

Cardinal Newman

Award, lightweight 12 horsepower aero- back to pass directly above our I met Mrs Luce in her villa Ca reform, housing,

in Rome as she lounged in- "given to a person who education-all have received

has engine. They fitted it into the heads." to the office of her social achieved distinction to the latest of their gliders, with It 60 percent assistance from secretary with her

WIS soon after having hands la cause of religion, the goof of specially designed eirscrews

to watched Wilbur Wright fly that. the American. dollar.

the pockets of her wide-skirt country and the huge, sighed absorb its power, and shot Into Harper saw Loula Bierlot from

silk photograph of Sir ed pink-and-grey check

Winston

fame by taking off on flights of the cliffs of France, as he flew She has just come back

Churchill. these tours Her taffeta mummer dress.

only a few acconds' duration out to make the world's first from 14

She royal progress Excellency needs all her

has everything this

aeroplane the world

crossing. ok tho Her présents

the first in

to be woman, Clare Laice: she is

English Channel.: Bloriot's Liny through, the South of Italy, noted wit to cope with

mun-carrying, monoplane where she observed at close sulky, dispossessed

was driven by n subtle simple, profound, and achieved by a her feet scrambled two trivial. I liked her enormous-engine-driven, heavier-than-air small" three-cylinder motor range the effect

seen Auny poodles called Scuzi r of owners (who have

machine.

which was little more than a American ald on the Italian their soil go to their (exque me) and Prego (don't

hoosted-up motor-cycle engine. Never before had it run for peasantry.

tenants), tongue-tied

more than 20 minutes at full mayors, stammering school-

heated and losing throttle without becoming over- children, and the like.

Now, after a month's occupation of the Eternal City of Rome, Her Excellency, the beautiful Mrs Luce, is settling down.

She lives in a vast,

rich villa which has 12 servants. She hus

an excellent suite of offices in a former royal palace. And her life is sharply divided between the two, with Intervals for lunch and triumphal toura.

SHELL

COCKROACH KILLER

DOES

kill cockroaches!

On

Joothe Luce

At the top

land-

-Here-is-a-formidable record

away.

merition it)

or what?

of this 05-

her

in

Tius

BO

first of these epoch The the making flights was mido on

I stood dazzled by good will, Impressed by her record of ser- Laotitia Baldridge ("call me vice, worrying about her slous Tichy"), the social secretary, trouble (which they say has was trying to discover the cor been bothering rect French spejling for

cold Roman heat). asparagus with vinegar sauce. warm blue eye on me.

So Her Excellency turned her Her problems

December 17, 1903, after A Yet the enormous risks/was series of delays in their experi- undertaken by the Intrepid mental test work at their Kitty Frenchman, fully aware that he Hawk Camp in North Carolina, would have to stay in the air Two

wo years later, at a meeting some thirty minutes or mere in Well, Rome of a local aeronautical society in order to complete the Channel

Britain, Mr Patrick Alexander crossing.

any- Widn't praise?

there anything

7

sho

того

Off he went. As he was halt- way across, with no vessel of any kind to render help," the tiny engine began to show its usual symptoms. It'

S one schoolchild read an

address of welcome in I asked if there was nervous Italian, Her Excel- thing I could do to help. lency cosled her up: "Never

"You could help mind,

Bou letters," honey,

said He answer watch-makers came in for, ajout

Excel certain amount of censure. The announted that he had just re-

ceived a

Wilbur you read

letler fromA. leney, taking a pair of blue ambassador's watch has been Italian better than I do."

the rimmed glasses out of a blue under repair now for one Wright saying that since

first short ascents already What is she like then, chatelaine at her waist..

spectacle case that hung like a month.

achieved they were now making this brilliant woman

Roman who

So did Thore was a short pause,

plumbing. lights for distances of has already risen to the top the asked.

"But can you speak Italian?" "You push the tap and noth than 20 miles. Ing comes out." "can learn, sold I gal- But apart from these small then because until patent rights power She

lently.

so quickly that) Bleriot was -born Claro

Clare Luce seems on problems, "When,"

their machine had been found his maching sinking lower Boothe in New York in dor."

the ambassi rerenely happy in her new job secured the Wrights had been and lower towards the sea. When "by tomorrow morning?" And, just between you and conducting their experiments, in all seemed lost, 1904, of good New England Then the led me off tó see me. I don't think she can fail such secrecy that little reliable came driving Up

rain-squall Atock.

presents given to her in

cooled the she has PRESS

her in it, because

the Information as to their actual ho four through Southern Italy.

hot cylinders the second most beautiful smile in achievements had leaked out.

fevered Here was the first tillctionary. the world.

bli motor just in time, and as As soon as the potent position the world knows, Bleriot went PHOTOGRAPHS and Life magazines,

Henry Luce, owner of Time over printed in Italian and a

bronze statue of a little Roman The first, of course, betongs was finalised Wilbur decided to on to make his victorious, Chan-

to the Queen of England.

take one of his machines aver nel crossirig. 173

Copies of photographs taken by the South China „Morning Post, South China Sunday Post-Heráld, and Chiha Mill Staff Phélo-

graphers aroon': view In the Morning Post Building.

ORDERS HOOKED

of three-professions?

1

In ·1935 sho

married

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