Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-04-13
OLD-T|ME CA|ET|Es
RE|GN|NC IN. LONDON
English Capital Is Again Smiling
After It's Long Pcrio5 OF
DrabncsS.
GREAT REVIVAL OF FASHIONS
Riviera Season Is on in All Its Splcn.
dor and Beautiful British Women
Arc Leaving for the South
Land
ny LADY MARY.

LONDON, April 12.-Truiy we are
returning slowly but surely TO Old
time social existence in London town!
Once more do we chatter OF the open
Ting of the Royal opera House, Covent
Garden; of the opening OF The season,
of Courts at Buckingham Palace anu
ief a fortnight, amid the joys OF Monte
Carlo before the strenuous round OF
Entertaining begins once moro IN
london
was told yesterday 81 many fash
ionable folk en- route for the RIVIERA
among them being tho beautiful WIS.,
5in.la@. LADY kathleen Curzon-TIer,-
rick. has taken villa on the hili which
pyeTloofs cannes, i |; is the And prIpSS eaT
chat Lady Curzon and Lady Kathleen
will stay there until after Easter,
when they return in order 10 DC III
eaieties that arc sure TO distinguish
our great Peace season.
4. Viscountess Curzon, as perhaps you
know, is not 10 be confused with the
Countess Curzon of kedlcston, who
married year or TWO ago the wiuower
OF the beautifui lady who was vas once &c
Chicago.
/, Nnmc synouymou. With beauty.
y Tile name OF CurSon. however seems
Synonymous with beauty as iar as tts
feminine holders are coreGrh hon; l1F I'M am
speaking, has for a long time been
Proclaimed ono OF Enslands most
bcautitul women. ] believe that this
was the criticism passed upon her by
no less a parsonage than tho King OF
Spain, when he was asst IN EnSland.
mircs fair women as his choice oi d
consort in Queen Victoria Eugene
goes to prove. Lady turZon !. dlSo
very fair and ConSpicu"uSly charming.
PRETTY Women In NcStaurant.
And speaking Of pretty women. was
interested ono recent SundaE evening
famous and very Bohemian rcstau-
rant in Regent street, called the Cafe
Royal. can think OF no mace n
fashioned French resort more cor
rectiy than with the restaurant Of the
Hotel Lafayette. near Fiith Avenue
Tho Cafe ROYAL is the most noted
place for human contrasts that ono
can imagine even in rosmopoiitan
the world" aud tho Halt World.
You can sec political giants and ar
lists whose names arc famous In every
much of the studio life, Of London.
while tho show lady and the chorus
girl are not aversc TO gathering III the
tanned its nrsi fame in the carly part
of Queen Nictorias reign and during
the last French revolution. which sent
inc LII pCIoIo LoblS' tNdIo'toh .h'''
Empress Eugcnic flying with other ref
usees TO the hospitablc shores OF Ems
land.
Cnfe Distinctive Sight.
At any rate, the Cafe Royal is one
OF the distinctive sights OF London.
and on the Sunday evening which
have mentioned but from which
have wandered. 1 saw an ntcresiins
little group OF diners that included tho
famous artist, Sir John l.avcry.. and
his wife, Lady Randolph Churchill and
her present husband Mr. Montague
Porch. Lady Randolph was unusually
vivacious and CHEEKY. She was not.
AS has recently been the case. dressed
in uniform, but was wearing a bright
blue and gold toque pressed low over
her hair which is now almost com
pletcly white. while round her throat
was a string OF very beautiful pearls
~-Shc was wearing a hat-hiEh dress
OF black EcorSettc over an under
bodice OF ~old tissue, and the collar
OF her black satin cloak lined with red
velvet was OF sa bic. Lady La very, who
IS hailed everywhere in England as a
ueauty. was wearing one of those new
laid with dull grey lace. y narrow
fringe OF silver and rose color outlined
the curve of the brim. She also wa.
wearing pearls. rather finer than those
worn b. Lady Randolph. while the
dress she revealed under "A chinchilla
coat. was OF soft string colorcd crepe
oe chine. Neither Sir John Lavery or
..2Ir. Porch we're in evening clothes. IL
was apparently quite Bohemian quar-
Artist. and'scrlpfor. Seen.