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Wednesday,

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She Was The WILDEST

of the

BRIGHT

YOUNG

THINGS

I

KNEW Elizabeth Pelly, the

late daughter

Ponsonby.

of

Lurd

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 ever marred the social life of Britain.

She died suddenly some- time

remembered 49 ngo,

"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 ern, peopled with young men and women with time and money to burn and a complete lack of responsibility to them- selves and society

We were children of the jazz age, a period when we tried to blame the last war for our hysteria and stupid follies. We rode on a crazy joy-wheel and some of us, thank heaven, managed to slide 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

FUNNY SIDE UP'

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 sensa- 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 Pigendilly hotel came Elizabeth Ponsonby as the "bride," dressed in white and with a huge bunch of pink roses. With bor 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 Falls. Everybody talked too much, too loudly, too pointlessly, IE 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 Celsea arrived nt 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 Send

A

. and the neighbours.

'em out on a false alarm. "joke" like that would be something to talk about for days at the cocktail parties. and lunches!

out- ONE of the most 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

filled and

with screaming young men and women would rush through London and the suburbs in the carly hours of the morning, recking not whose sleep they disturbed.

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

By Abner Dean bottle and 30 on-within a

WATCH YOUR HAT & CONT.

DEAN

“How much do I owe you? I had two extra tough

chops, burnt fried potatoes, and a cuppa coffee tha

fested like water!!!

limited lime. We'd go to any lengths to make sure that we did not return empty-handed. I once saw two young women. unserew 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.seok which again touched a new low in stupidity. This was played in the subways and trains and escalators of Lon- don Tubo stations. The "haro" was given a short start and then the "hounds" were in' full cry after him, Bewilder- ed passengers were harassed and hustled as the Bright Young Things: rushed madly around like a lot of stupid schoolchildren,

The public, police and Par-: liament were uneasy about" this disease that was turning London into a laughing stock

in the eyes of foreigners, But

nothing seemed to curb thei

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"The first Lesson is taken from the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah. In view of Section 39B.A, of the Defence Regula- tions we will omit it."

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

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

Like Those English

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

"I was about to write to you when your most welcome let ter arrived," writes Mr. Bur Ingham. "Yes there is no- thing like them-those Eng- lish. They may be lost at the start, but they are always As St. strong at the finish. Paul fought with beasts at Ephesus, so the Britishers will fight with machines on land and sen and above and below them both-and live, as St. Paul did, to tell the tale. I have wondered that "ob- servers and others could not have learned from Spain of the Germans' new methods, but the French had their ilecs fixes and the English~~~ But the well, you know, psychological attack has fail- ed thus far and will never succeed.

"Would to God we were helping you more! It is unfor-

It was not on that expedi tion, but I'm told that the noise was terrific and that the rest of-the-inhabitants-of--tunate that we have an elec the houses was constantly de- stroyed throughout the night.

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 "appease- ment" were a

peer and a baronet.

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

*

P..RTIES where the guests haduress as bubies and

tion this year which gives a political twist to everything. But Wilkie 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 seli old destroyers to you without new legislation."

AND THIS IS THE TRUTH

THE Gay Woman wants night

active in bassinettes, all-nightlife and plenty of it. She strip poker parties, madden- ing

aces when baby talk was the order of the day. It was a part of a fantastic period which now seems like a nightmaro.

Now we are at war again, and when it is over there may be another reaction... But never must it be allowed to tuke this terrible 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 be taken in by such a mockery of "à good time."

The bad old days of the Frivolous Twenties are dead.

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

By

Bright Young Things' high DENNIS

spirits.

Questions were asked

Parliament, foreign journalists

MYERS

generally раув the morning. after.

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

are.

The Worldly-Wise Woman Becks 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- venture 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 her by, but how dull things can be for a plain woman who knows what she is missing!

*** The Impetuous Woman spends most of her young life trying to choose a husband. She often spends the remainder of it try- ing to get rid of him.

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

But the Wise Woman wants and expects nothing, and is never disappointed,

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