Evening star., 1922-01-29

Atlantic section has twenty fine play,
ers to the Pacific coasts one. And
another record has been switched
from California to New York.
twelve, has not only established a
record which beats this country, but
all others. This is Miss Doris
OMara. who last month swan dis
tance Of 210 yards in three minutes
and twenty-five seconds, which far
the west. in the movies or out or
them. Little Miss O'Mara has been
promptly challenged by the celebrity
of Liverpool. Miss Hilda James, and
the match is to be arranged In the
near future and win afford another
opportunity for the champions OF
Ireland to lay wagers against
Briton. The Brooklyn Amateur SWIM.
ming Club is> managing the aHairs OF
this Irish-American iassle ana her
success is arousing keen enthusiasm
throughout the two great cities
where her friends are evenly dlVlded.
1t has been remarked that never be-
fore in the closed season has the
prestige of amateur sports been SO
fervently maintained.
Though summer seems remote ar
fair, the fashion topic of supreme m
terest relates to the sport SUIT oe-
signed and patented by Queen Marie
her various charities. 1t is built OF
a fabric known as 'Sport-knit and
| is the inevitable blouse belted over
a killed skirt, but the colors are that
amazing combination of Rumanlan
! gold and the red called Chinese lac
quer. which Queen Marie wears habi-
! tually in the open, in tams, jerseys
and scarfs. Until recently even this
beautiful woman has regarded these
colors as too bizarre for an entire
| suit, but now she wears garments of
"Sport-knit'' of this striped gold and
lacquer red. and bright splotch of
! color she makes on the tennis court
/ or golf course. A great yellow hat is
worn by the royal designer, with a
| knotted scarf of heavy white silk on
which great flowers alternately of
! the Rumanian gold and lacquer red
are embroidered To the last detail.
with yellow silk hose and dull red
| Shoes, the costume is most fetching
and duplicates of the queen are be-
ginning to appear on the sports fields
of Switzerland and in the gardens of
the Riviera. IT is possible to order
| the entire costume from agents of
| the queen in Paris, Geneva and
Lucerne.
! Europe, though in the throes of
| trouble and disorder, seems much
| more intent on the subject of dress
] than the more comfortably place.
| sisters on this side of the water. TIE
dramatic hit of the London season is
! an amusing farce called Clothes and
| the Woman" and rumor goes that its
| fame has reached even the rural parts,
/ with the result that the people rush
| to London after the way New York
| is crowded when a specially popular
| play is billed. Clothes and the
! Woman takes the literary person
! for it's theme and shows how she
generally looks while in the process
| of transferring thoughts into words.
The heroine is clever journalist
! with d way of dashing on her gar
ments in such haste that she fire.
quently misses connections She be-
| comes unexpectedly bitten by the phi
| losophy that every girl looks all the
better and can be just as brainy and
successful if she is well dressed. And
| the way in which a smart gown and
well coiffed hair with some side curls
transforms a bespectacIed inky-fin-
gered, dowdy maid into a finished CO.
quette is but little removed from the
| miraculous. 1t must be confessed that
| the lesson may be needed in London,
but in this land of the free all the
national inventiveness is turned to-
ward making the theme of dress less
alluring to woman. the wage-earper
IN particular. However. as the comedy
is bound New Yorkward and after
ward for the road, this city may have
peep at this rather unusual moral
foundation for a farce. Washington.
| the world over. has the reputation of
presenting the best-gowned lot of
femin1n1ty which appears abroad any
where or in any hour of the day. In
fact. there are critics who assert that
the working woman is too well
gowned to argue well for habits of
,, thrift and the dollars laid by for the
! rainy day.