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ROYAL GARDEN PARTY. TORRENTIAL STORM STORM

PRETTIER SCREEN.

HEROINES-

THANKS TO A NEW STUDIQ PROOLSS.

A Garden Party, given by the King and Queen to 6,000 guests in the grounds of Holyrood Palaco Edinburgh had to be brought to "A striking development in cinema & promature close by a heavy thun tography-the super-sensitive' derstorm, accompanied by torren-film process is now being intro. tin), rain.

duced in British and American fim studios.

Brilliant anabine prevailed at the opening of the Garden Party. and the King the Queen, and the Duke and Duchess of York spant an hour in the growinds, speaking to hundreds of the guests..

When the weather broke the con- ditions were so bad that the Royal party sought seanty shelter under a small marquee, but ultimately they made their way inte. the Palace, sheltered by large umbrel- "las carried by members of the atalf.

Caught in the Rain. The storm broke with remarkable auddounes and the guests, in light summer" attire were for the most part caught in the rain and dren ched before they could rouch shol- ter.

The new process will greatly in- crease, the enjoyment of cinga- goers, for they will see their favourite actors and actresses to even better advantage than hither- to. For the super-sensitive fum is claimed to give a finer "skin_tex- ture" and to create." rounder ". shadows so that something ap proaching a stereoscopic effect is obtained.

¦ ¦ Mr. John Gilbert is said to be the

a full-length first star who inade picture in which the now process was und. The film, "Chori-Bibl," will soon be shown in London. It will be remembered that Miss Edna Best, where sudden decision to leave Hollywood owing to homesick. A few, who had taken warning of Iness caused an sensation TA How the approaching storm in the black months ago, was to have played q clouds which suddenly appeared, | posite Mr. Gilbert in this talki reached their care in time

Clothes and Colour.

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hot go fortunate, and wore Autora..and actresses will benefit soaked while waiting in long from the new process during pre- quenes for their motors...

duction, for only one-third of the strength of lighting previously necessary will now be required.

There was a general rush to the Palaco gates, and men and women struggled to board trams and "busos;

They will enjoy, too, the advan tage of playing, their parts. în Thousands of humbler folks, who natural colour clothes. Up to now had climbed the steep slopes of Ar-it has been essential to take into 0. thur's Seat and Salisbury Crags to

count the fact that certain colours watch the Royal party, with the do not photograph well-for exam aid of field glasses, were soaked plc, actors in male evening dress bofore they could got down to she have had to wear yellow shirt fronts

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So sensitive in the new film that during a recent test it was found possible to photograph an netor by the light of a single match held ono foot from his face.

The fading light of late aftora:on will offer no dificulties, experts say, to the cinema photographer who is taking outdoor scenes, with

The Quson's Dress. The earlier ceno was one of great brilliance. The gardens were at their best in the summer sunshino- the bright-coloured flower beda blending with the "brilliant many- hued dressca of the women, and the shadows of the centuries old walls of the Abbey, which flanks the Palace, falling on the grassy slopes. the new film.

The Queen wore a dress of pale turquoise blue with long fringes trimming the bodice and skirt. Her teque was swathed silks in pastol shades, and she carried parasol of turquoise blue silk to match. Graded pearls formed her necklace.

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Her earrings, too, were of pearls. The King was in a grey frock cont and grey top hat with a white earnation buttonhcle. The Duchess of York wore a gown of rose pink lace and a wide brimmed straw tat

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WOMAN'S PAGE

Fascinating Wooden Basis.

Wood is being increasingly used for day-time Jewellery, and the now. stock includes a host of faserating dosigns, the colours of which are particularly lovely. The round yellow wooden beads in a double, string necklaces had tiny flowers carved in them, the petals of which were painted in blue and green These bends were alternately threaded with tiny black or white china beads.

Plaid Pattemed Necklass,

The vogue for plaids. designs has spread to beads, and many of these wooden necklacos introduced various tartan colourings. One was made of round beads in a dark fod and blue plaids intercepted at intervals with cubes of green bakelite-that clear composition material that looks just like coloured glass, but is much lighter in weight. Another in white, yellow, green and black paid was mixed with brown woodon. heads roughly carved, so that their surface was like that of a peach

stone,

All these wooden necklaces have beads of "varied shapes and sizes- cubes mixed with marbles and pail lettes or spherical beads cut in half. One introduced a two-colour. effect by threading a blue half and a yellow half together so that the two beads looked as if they were one painted in two colouri

A Variation on an Edwardian

Vogue.

Many of the now necklaces have: pendants in the centre tent, a variation on the gold chain, and

PEARLS AND AMBER les dipped in a little definite lockets worn in Edwardian days.

RETURN TO FAVOUR.

MODERN DESIGNS MAKE A

BID FOR POPULARITY. Pearls and amber will return to favour during the coming season, ousting both coral and turquoise from their high pinnacle of popula. rity. Both these stones, however, are so lovely that many owners will be slow to lay them aide.

Golden Brown Amber.

The new amber necklaces are in

colour, such as green or red, are injected into the stones so that the colour" runs, leaving faint streaks in the heart in the amber. Only clear yellow stones are used for this.

Two Fashion Points to Hote. Amongst the cheaper type of beads. two fashion points pre- must introduce at least two colours, dominate. Firstly, your necklace

or two shades of ono colour. Secondly, the beads must be large. and round, or flat and cut in modernistic designs.

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Thero ATE SOME enormous "pearls

as big as birds' eggs, they are in various shades of silver, gun-metal, oyster and pink and are

a lovely shade of golden brown-throaded with alternate tiny beads antiquo amber." is the name by in a contrasting colour. Pink and which it is known. The beads are grey, and oyster and groen are two simply threaded in long ropes of popular colour harmonies, though carefully graduated sizes, no fanci- | black allied with any colour is a ful patterns being introduced at all. safe choice. Though one would ex

A novelty in amber necklaces is pect these necklaces to be very that in which the stones have been heavy they are, in fact, quite light. specially treated to introduce a in weight, as they are made from a

fossilised" éffect. Red hot need- | spęciaÏ composition.

One was made of tiny flab pink

beads, separated at intervals, by fine gilt filigree work. The pendant was made of throa large pink marbles In gradunted sizes, onch encircled by a ring of, the small flat' beads, Another in tango and Aligreo was Anisbed with two tango beads threaded each side with carved pink. and blue flowers like forget-me-nota: Pin-apots of gold made the stamens.

The flat necklaces included many in black and coloured bakelite eut in modern designs thronded with bends of untarnishable white matal. Others in pale primrose yellow, and patou green-two of the most popular colours in necklaces this SchBon-word' onrved" to... rosemble the V-shaped collarettes of lace that are inlet in so many of the new frocks.

Orystal and Multi-Coloured, - -

Sequins. Crystal necklacos, copies of those mada by a famous French dress de- signer, introduced the necessary colour note by threading a thin coloured sequin botweon cach crystal' disci

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THE CHILDREN'S CORNER.

THE ELF AND THE HONEY. "Did not look quite so glad

POT.

A naughty little Elf crept out. In Fairyland one day Ho stole the Queen's own honey-pot And took it right away. And “hid it'neur a brambla buah Beneath a pile of hay.

The Queen loved honey, so she was Quite overcome with grief

And all her fairies hunted round To try and entah the thief.

of the old Roman deities. The first "Sylvanus was the guardian of forests, and the protector of hus bandmen and their crops, and wor- shipped for his care of the harveste of the fields and woods. Just prior to the Christion era, it became, an

yond-of the chief woodland deitics, And when four days had gone, he so it really dates from the time

..seemed More than a trifle, sad‚”‚' While when the week was over, ha Looked very blus fand bad, And when the fortnight and a day Had gone, the little Elfate cont Had grown to just the shadow of His former jaunty self. And twonty empty honey-pots Stood on the prison shelf. It taught him quite a lesson, and The fairies say that he

Ie now as honest and as good

At last they found him, fast asleep As over he can be. Upon a fallen leaf,

They took him to the Queen, who

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"You naughty ell." A way: Must now be found to punish you-- And this is it-You may Eat nothing but pure honey for A fortnight and a day!" The Elf was pleased, and off he went To prison, full of glen.

(They never give him honey,

though, When he goes out to tea!)

ordinary masculine name, and was borne later by Sylvanus, the com- panion of St. Paul, to whom he refers in his Epistles. Gradually ita uso, extended to the minine, and Sylvio, Sylvan, Sylvan, and Silvia and Bylvia became sym- bolical of pastoral romance, Often it indicated a shepherd or she pherdess. It thus came to ade liganto a charming country maidon,

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PEDDER STREET.

A Diving Bell

Beetle, and a very interesting in-kept by itself lest it should ent al This creature is the Great Water in an aquarium, and so has to be sect it is. Some of the specimens the other creatures that are found we may see at this time of year there. have lived as beeties through the winter, but others have been buried in the soil near fie pond through Being an insect, it must breathe, out the cold weather in the pupa and so every now and then it comes into perfect beetles are very watching the bottom for prey. form, and have only just changed to the surface of the water to take wwwxved in, air, Here it resta alantingly.

The male and femniotare different in appearance; in fact, Directly it sees something edible it scientists used to think they were takes in a supply of air under, its two distinct. kinds of bettle." The wing cases, which are airtight: malo is black with the margins of This converts the beetle, into, & the smooth wing cases streaked with | diving bell, and it then pounces yellow, and a reddish yellow down on the prey. triangle on the forehead, His !." All this; takes only a second of middle and bind legs are flattened | time. A little lators it comes up like ours. The female's less are not to get a fresh upply of air and flattened and her wing cases are releases the air it has already grooved bronthod. This is a very wonderful The Grest Water Beetle is a very breathing aystemy and the Great greedy creature, and will eat. Water Bootie in certainly most almost any kind of fish food, dead interesting creature to look out for For alive. It oven attacke goldish and study. Ba

IS SYLVIA YOUR NAME?

- THE LITTLE DIVER, Sylvia belongs to the class known as “romantic" and "poctica)'''

WHERE TO WATCH THE naica. It denoteswood GREAT WATER BEITLE. nymph," or one living ina)

If you go quietly to a pond and wood. The oxar idea is conveyed in the phrase “A sylvan scene, watch for a minute or two you will or "A sylvan glede," meaning "A probably ses a large boots rise to woodland scene or a glade through the surface of the water and after forest. It is derived from the resting there is alanting position But when three days had passed, Latin word Silva (A wood). In for a few minutes, dive down again

the Elt

Pagan mythology, Sylvanus, was quickly.

How lovely to have honey for My breakfast, dinner, ten, And "supper too," he murmered,

The Why

How happy I shall be!'