The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-22

her stamp bill since Mir. Wilson's death would have been more than $5,000.
 Another striking example of an original personality expressing itself in creton and lamp shades is Elisabeth Marbury's new home on Sutton Place in New York City. .e
 Of course Elsie de Wolfe was the expert interior decorator who is cred ited with this job, but the cleverer the artist the more fully she gives expres- sion to the taste and personality of her client, the owner. Elsie and Elisabeth are good friends of long standing, so of course it was relatively easy for Elsie to leave no interior repressions in Elisa beth's sub-conscious so far as these ex- terior decorations were concerned.
 Riv@ Tones Repeated
 The changeful tones of the charming little garden and the East river flowing by are repeated in the interior tones of glazed green plaster walls and in the green chintz covering the sofa. The loveliest of flowers, in rose, blue and green, are scattered over greyish green background in the linen chintz curtains, and a beige design decorates the brown Chinese rug. .>
 In the entrance hall the red brick floor is waxed to initiate patina, swing fascinating old world suggestion which is further emphasized in the black iron stair rail and in the ight- eenth century console and chairs paint ed in polychrome. The architect has left the plaster walls white. The wood work is marbleized in blue, Beige and wrought iron lanterns complete a most interesting effect.
 But-wait until z tell you about Elisabeth's very own bedroom. No wonder her autobiography, "The Crys- tai Ball." is so entrancing. No one could occupy that room and live dinly or duly. No, only so vivid a personal ity as that of Elisabeth Marbury could have transmitted even to the quick brain of Elsie how that room was to live and breathe and glow with rare colors rare ly combined. I don't believe any man under heaven could sleep in. that room -only an original and ,life-loving spin ster like Elisabeth would be spiritually acclimated there. .4 :"
 Yes, that room is undoubtedly one of Elsie's greatest triumphs. It fairly sings of Elisabeth and of her moods and lenses. Tomato red and brown are the color notes. An old brown glazed chintz covers the Queen Anne bed. The desk is eighteenth century English burl walnut and the red lacquer tables pick up the red note. Old Chinese rugs. are on the floor. The reds and browns contrast strikingly and pleas ingly with the green plaster walls and the curtains are of brown and white linen with under-curtains of tomato red gauge. A room to live in! A room to remember
 Color Takes Cleyerness
 It is certainly true that the cleverest women all appreciate the psychological effect of color and use it accordingly. Now, there's Suzanne Lenglen, the pie turesque little French tennis champion. When she first appears she wears +an orange ribbon band. on her raven black hair and before the crowd sees her again she has changed that for a~bandl of vivid red. Her short skirt and smart blouse are white and so are .,her- shoes and stockings. What a brilliant, un-, forgettable picture she makes! And how clever of her to express the jazz in her tennis temperament" by means of those dazzling hair bands! No one who has ever seen Suzanne Hitting over the courts at St. Cloud, just outside of Paris, could ever, ever forget that flash of white, orange and black or white, crimson and black. No wonder the tennis fans call her Suzanne the Magnificent.
 Now you might not remember Mrs. Norman Whitehouse if you saw her in ordinary attire, but if you'd seen her once as I saw her, in. pure .gwhite with a bright green feather fan in her hand, you'd never for, get her. F~- Lucky is the woman who has sense of color and uses it. Color experts can tell you at a glance what color you vii brate to. This is the color every wom- an should find, and when she finds it she should use it. Butit takes a. super color sense, sort of conception of what Mir. Einstien calls relatively, to dare to combine colors as hese exceptional women know how to do so effectively: