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Their Royal Highnasios, the Duka and Duchess of Kent, photographed during their dance at the British Colonial ball, held in their honour at Nassau, Bahamas, to mark their arrival un their honeymoon. The former Grecian princesa, Marina, attract- ed the attention of all by her

beauty and grace.

Lord Baden-Powell, world leader of the Boy Scout movement, is touring Canada meeting the Can. adian groups of Boy Scouts in many citius. He is shown with his daughter, Betty, as they leave their train at one town visited.

Her bridegroom wore full military valform. H er "bridesmulde” were two boys clad in Nasi regalia. And Emmi Sonnemann added the final military touch to her wedding to Gederal Hermann Goering, Prussian Premier, as she and her groam left the cathedral in Barlin where a religious ceremony fol lowed the earlier civil rites. Above the is shown with Goering on the cathedral stops, band raised in salute to acknowledge the good will chears loosed by the waiting crowd when they made their appearence,

FASHION DICTATOR

PASSES

CAREER OF LADY DUFF-CORDON

IN TITANIC DISASTER

GESSIVE RASTAMONETA

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The denth has occurred in Putney Bursing home of Lucy, Lady Duft-Goriton, widow of Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff-Gordon, who died in 1931, and elder sister of Elinor Glyn, the famous novelist.

Lady Duff-Gordon. Was well- known some years ago for her con- nection with the famous dress- making firm of Lucllle, and articles in the Press ou l'ashions generally. Lady Duff-Gordon with her hun. band was a passenger on the Titanic, which sank after striking an iceberg in the Atlantic on April 14, 1912, with the loss of 1,517 lives and both she and Sir Cosmo Have evidence at subsequent Board of Trade inquiry into disaster.

the

The writer of an appreciation of Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, In the News-Chronicle, says:-

During her business career she introduced diaphanous and silk "undies" to replace nunaveiling and linen; abolished high "boned" necks and introduced the "Peter Pan" and "Quaker" collar; invented "The Merry Widow" hut; started mannequin paraden: let the world know that women had "legn";

gave names to her

creations.

CREATED A FURORE

The daughter of an English engineer named Sutherland and A Canadian ranch /owner's daughter, she began her dress- making enreer making dolls' clothes when she lived with her grandparents in Canada, Not only did she design dresses for her own dolls, but she established In "clientele" among her friends, dressing their dolls in return for pieces of stik on velvet.

With her slater, Mra. Elinor! Glyn, she eroated a furore when she came out" In the 'eighties in London. When she was 17 she was engaged three times in one Year.

At 18 she married Mr. James Stuart Wallace.

Five years later she had divore- ed hor, husband and was anxious to earn more money to maintain herself and her little daughter: As she was making a frock for little Esme-now Lady Halsbury he had the den. "Why not design clothes for her friends?"

She had a large circle of friends, among them Elica Terry-the- actress. No one had ever heard

of a "society" woman who ran a shop, and there was much shaking of heads when she discussed the project.

But one of her friends, the Hon. Mrs. Arthur Brand, jumped at the; suggestion and commissioned a tea gown. She wore it at a house

Here is another bit of evidence of the versatility of Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy, who holds, in addition to the portfolios of overal cabinet posts, the rank of chief pilot of the Italian Air Forces. An expert aviator, he frequently files unaccompanied. He's

pictured above at the controls in flight.

Undaunted by the fate of a Michigan "bat wing flyar" who dived to death when his parachute 'fouled, Capt. Floyd McKennon, veteran Dallas, Tex, parachute jumper, shown with his wings, plans to leap from a plane a mile in the air. McKennon will carry two parachutes and balleros he has solved the problem of averting

fouling.

A poignant scane outside Wandsworth prison in London, showing some of the thousands of persous who gathered there to protest against the execution of Staker Petty Officer Albert Brig stock, who was put to death for the murder of Chief Petty Officer Deggan, on board H.M.S. Marshal Soult,

PARACHUTISTS' UNION

WON'T JUMP FOR SMALL MONEY

North Bergen, May 15. Organised parachute jumpers of Amerien have served notice on the National Air Race management that they won't defy death and gravity for a cent under £4-n- jump.

"It isn't fair to ask a man to risk his life for less than that." asserted the parachute jumpers' spokesman, Mr. William J. Piune. Mr. Picute, a handsome, dark- haired young man of 19, estimates he has fallen a quarter of a million feat since he took up parachute jumping at 16 "because it was the most thrilling branch of aviation."

Like others among the 76 mem- bers of the National Parachute Jumpers Association, Pieuse has hurtled through space for as little as $1, but he says the jumpers are determined now that their daring shall be more adequately reward- ed.

"We figure a dollar a hundred

at

feet is a fair price," he explained.

Some 35 jumpers will be Cleveland soon for the air races. and they will insist on payment at that rate. Mr. Picune said.

"The parachutists expect -- com- petition from Giem Sohn and other "human birds" this year but their president Mr. Joe Crane, has warn ed them to "lay off the human bird stuff it has no place." Floyd Davis was killed in Michigan the other day trying to soar like a bird.

Mr. Picune hus made 89 jumps since he stopped out for his first plunge after 24 hours' Instruction three years ago and his only injury was a broken thumb received when he jumped from a fast-moving tri- motor machine at Nashville and his hand hit the tail surface.

Week days he iས nn office clerk and Sundays and holidays he jumps at for whatever his friends can raise by passing the hat among the spectators. This averages $10 to $20 a Sunday which helps support a widowed mother-United Press.

TO THE COOK VICTORY

RED AGITATORS SUBDUED

Amsterdam, May 18 The culinary effort of an army cook has won a battle against Ger- man Communist ugitators interned in Holland.

The internecs at the fortress of Honswijk, near Utrecht, went on hunger-strike. They sniffed con- temptuously at the dishes set be- The first man ever to sit through marriage, she was being shown

fore them delicious soupa, huge party and all the other guests one of her mannequin "shows" was attentions by a certain peer.

ronsta cooked to a tempting brown, came round to "place orders."

Lord Oxford, then Mr. Asquith, When rumour linked their names

and dishes of nice fresh vegetables, She cut and sewed the garments who was persuaded to go there together Sir Cosmo challenged the The strikers held out for three in her own home in Mayfair. Six by his wife.

lord to a duel, but her mother days. months later she employed. four

smoothed things ever.

workers.

The cook, however, was a good girls. Then she went to Hanover Sho extended her business to Square, and when the firm of Paris and Now York. Not only Sir Cosmo-and-Lady-Duff one-as army cooks go—and was Lucille was at the height of its was she designing clothes, but Gordon were in the Titanie when proud of his art. Even the gen- fame there were some 5,000 giving instructions on the art of it struck an iceberg and went eral bad tasted his dishes and had expressed approval. Was such a wearing beautiful. clothes to down with a loss of 1,517 Uves.

cullinary artist to be beaten by £6,000 A YEAR

clients at 20 guineas a consulta- Mrs. James R. Leidk, wife of the

tion,

Lady Duff-Gordon, in her interneil agitators? well-known British banker, whose

biography, stated that during the On the third day the cook sur- Soclety womon, actresses; mom- home is in Johannesburg, South

himsel He bers of the Court eircle, flocked In. 1922 she severed her conner-night one of the boat's crew said, passed Africa, shown as she left her aero- plans at Newark, N. J., USA, to her. At first her customeration with the firm. She was then "We have lost all our kit and our goulash that would have made n after complating a.. 25,000 mile trip word rather nervous about wear receiving £6,000 a year and a shave pay stops from the moment the sick mule ent. This was too much by air and boat. Aviation officialsing her "limy underwear, which of the profits."

ship went down." Sir Cosmo, for the agitators. They surren Her second husband was Sir remarking that it was, hard luck,dered. The meal disappeared state she is the leading woman she designed because she disliked air traveller of the world, having the idea of hor gowns being worn Coamo Daff-Gordon, whom she gave them beach towards a new liko magic. Some of the strikers even resumed work-United Prone. covered batwann 250,000 and 380,000 avar ugly fabrics, but Lucillo won. married in 1900.. Just before her kit.

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