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November 13, 1940.

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She

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Was The WILDEST

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YOUNG THINGS

I KNEW Elizabeth Pelly, the

late daughter of Lord Ponsonby,

It is nothing to be proud of, for she was a woman who wasted years of her life on- the maddest, most stupid merry-go-round that has over marred the social life of Britain.

She died suddenly some- time ago,

remembered BS

"Playgirl No. 1" and leader of the Bright Young Things, who were a feature of the roaring, boring 'twenties.

Her death is important, for it marks the end of an era. which, thank God, will never return. It was a post-war era, peopled with young men and women with time and money to burn and a complete lack of responsibility to them- selves and society.

The late Elizabeth Polly, who was known as Playgirl No. 1.

for a cheap thrill, anything for a laugh, anything for a stunt.

I well remember the sense- tion when Elizabeth Ponsonby -as she was then-conceived the "brilliant" idea of a mock wedding reception. Cocking a snoop at marriage-never a very popular state among the irresponsible Bright Young Things seemed a first-class gag.

And so to a Piccadilly hotel came Elizabeth Ponsonby as the "bride," dressed in white

Wo wore children of the -Jazz-age,-a-period-when-we-and-with a huge bunch of pinkTM

tried to blame the last war for our hysteria and stupid follics. We rode on a crazy joy-wheel and some of us, thank heaven, managed to alide off in time to get jerked back to sanity.

Parties! That was the key- note of the twenties. Parties night after night, and each trying to outdo the other in fantastic originality. Bigger and louder parties! Anything

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roses. With her was her "bridegroom," John Rayner. Everyone thought that an actual wedding breakfast was in progress, and a clergyman from a nearby table was in- vited to join the party. He gave them his blessing, never dreaming that he was being completely fooled.

Pointless? A bad joke? It didn't seem so to the Bright Young Things. It was some-

thing that had never been done before.

IT was never enough for Elizabeth to throw a straight party. One took place at midnight in a swimming bath, and the guests alternately swam and danced. At an- other every guest had to ar- rive dressed as an inhabitant from Mars.

They were noisy, wild af fairs. The music was loud and syncopated. It helped to stop us thinking. Champagne flowed like Niagara Fallo. Everybody talked too much, too loudly, too pointlessly. It was a giant, nightmare drug.

The folly and stupidity of the Bright Young Things *found other outlets. There was one party which was sud- denly interrupted by a terrific hubbub. Every fire engine in the district of Celsen arrived at the house.

Somebody with a curious sense of humour suddenly conceived the idea of issuing a false alarm, To hell with in- convenience to the fireman and the neighbours. Send 'em out on a false alarm. A "joke" 'like that would be something to talk about for days at the cocktail parties and lunches!

ONE of the most out- ‚rageous forms of lunacy that, in the late twenties and early thirties, suddenly became the rage was the Treasure Hunt or Night Scavenging,

Dozens of cars with noisy exhausts and filled with screaming young men and women would rush through London and the suburbs in the early hours of the morning, recking not whose sleep they disturbed.

This midnight imbecility took several forms. Some- times the competitors had to secure various odd articles-a policeman's helmet, 11 red flannel petticoat, a used four- penny bus ticket, a baby's

By Abner Dean bottle and so on-within a

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"How much do I owe your I had two extra tough pork

chops, burnt fried potatoos, and a cuppa coffee that hy

A tasted like water!!!

limited time. We'd go to any lengths to make sure that we did not return empty-handed. I once saw two young women unscrew a door knocker from a suburban house. Another impetuous young hooligan laid out a policeman and went off with his helmet.

THEN there was the Under- ground game of hide and seek which again touched a new low in stupidity. This was played in the subways and trains and escalators of Lon- don Tubo stations. The “hare" was given a short start and then the "hounds" were in full cry after him. Bewilder- ed passengers wero harassed and hustled as the Bright Young Things rushed madly around like a lot of stuplu schoolchildren.

The public, police and Par Hament were uneasy about this disease that was turning London into a laughing stock

in the eyes of foreigners. But

"nothing" söemed" to curb tho

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scourged the playboys, but still it went on, touching crazier and more disgraceful heights.

THERE was the time in 1932 when two cars suddenly descended on country houses in Surrey and at drad of night, the occupants let off a terrific barrage of squibs, catherine wheels and rockets.

Those English"

Mr. Carles C. Burling- ham, an eminent American lawyer now living in retire- ment in New York, pays a remarkable tribule to the British spirit in this war in a letter recently received by his friend. Mr. Edward Knoblock, the playwright.

"I was about to write to you when your most welcome let- ter arrived," writes Mr. Bur- lingham, "Yes there is no- thing like them-those Eng- lish. They may be lost at the ' start, but they are always strong at the finish. As St. Paul fought with beasts at Ephesus, so the Britishers will fight with machines on land and sea and above and below them both-and livo, ng St. Paul did, to tell the tale. I have wondered that 'eb- .servers' and others could not have learned from Spain of the Germans' new methods, but the French had their lives fizes and the English-

But the well, you know. psychological attack has fail- ed thus far and will never succeed.

wore

It was not on that expedi-

"Would to God we tion, but I'm told that the noise was terrific and that helping you more! It is unfor- the rest of the Inhabitants of tunate that we have an elec- the houses was constantly de- tion this year which gives a stroyed throughout the night-political-twist to everything-

The police took up that dis- graceful episode, and among the young men who eventual- ly had to apologise and pay up a handsome sum in "appense- ment" were a peer and a baronet.

And so it went on. Somo of us came to our senses and, refusing to live life that was one long hangover, we got out while the going was good. But there were others ready to take our places.

PARTIES where the guests had to uress as babies and

But Willkic and Roosevelt are of the same mind toward the war, and our help will im- prove very day in every way. The overwhelming sentiment, however, is against sending. troops, but before long we may aid with ships. I joined three other lawyers in a let- ter published on Sunday de- monstrating that we could sell old destroyers to you without new legislation."

AND THIS IS THE TRUTH

Gay Woman wants night arrive in bassinettes, all-rightTfe and plenty of it. She the morning

strip poker parties, madden- ing paases when baby talk was the order of the day. It was all part of a fantastic period which now scems like a nightmare.

Now we are at war again, and when it is over there may be another reaction. But nover must it be allowed to take this torrible Bright Young Things form. -

Not that it will. I am con- ' vinced that the modern young man and woman are too sane, too well-balanced ever to bo taken in by such a mockery of "a good time.”

The bad old days of the

Ventles are dead.

There will be no place for them in the New World for which we are fighting.

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The Romantic Woman searches for love and happiness. Only she knows how rare both

arc.

The Worldly-Wise Woman seeks wealth. She cuts all the trimmings of life right out. They only stand in the way.

The Cautious Woman chooses the straight and narrow. ́Ad- vonture has no charms for her. The Beautiful Woman wants to be wise. After all, she can't help being beautiful, so what virtue is there in that?

The Clever Woman wants to be beautiful. She doesn't want life to pass hor by, but how dull things can be for a plain, woman who knows what she is missing!

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The Impetuous Woman spends most of her young life trying to choose a husband. She sponds the remainder of it try.:] ing to get rid of him."

The Generous Woman wants to be loved for that vague thing she call herself."

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