Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-07
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.
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NEW YORK, May Probably no
event of recent years has caused, in
ing and excitement. as the news that
Miss Helen Wills will wear a gown with
a tennis racquet motif at her presenta-
ton at the May court in London. This
agitation was just beginning to die
down, when still another bulletin an
nounced that Miss Wills would carry a
fan. fashioned in the form of racquet
There have been heavy casualties
among dowagerS here who have first
hand knowledge of the austerities of
Queen Mary'S court, and who have
failed to observe that even the Oldest
and sterneSt conventions may be, and
occasionally are, challenged by breezy
American youth.
It is recalled that Suzanne Lenglen
became persona non grata at the Eng
fish court, when, after her presentation,
she turned professional. Queen Mary is
fastidious about little things and for
maliSts here are wondering whether,
like Queen Victoria on the occasion of
famous contretemps, she will fail to
be amused
Events Drawing Near.
The court presentations will be held
Thursday and Friday. AS these event.
full days draw near, it is revealed that
democratic America has a rapt and ro-
mantle interest in these story book do
ings' of royalty. New York salons are
filled with intimate. gossip, in which it
is told how lances of money and social
prestige have been shattered against
the walls of Buckingham Palace in I'M
aVailing efforts to obtain presentations
for wives and daughters; how other pa
tient, reSourceful and munificent cam
paignS have at last won through; stories
of heart break house, and the castle
of dreams. Tabloid headlines are
Streamers and banners of romance for
the multitude, with no detail of knight
hood and chivalry omitted
The New York haut monde keeps it
self rather intimately informed about
these doings. It now learns, through
continuous London fitting" that Lon
don has been rather Sanguinary bat
tleground this year, with new American
fortunes going a-roving in search of
coronets. Marked-down British royal
ty is said TO have profited immensely,
with dukes serving as social mentors
and presumably or actually charting
not lead at last to the throne room. It
is said that the money tidal wave in
America during the last few years has
caused number of ill-advised and
hopeless campaigns in London, and that
the English court is drawing the circle
a bit narrower and that too much
money is becoming almost bar sin
lister.
The social sophisticates here express
general approval of the American rep
resentation as it will appear at Queen
Mary's court Thursday. Mrs. Ray
Anterior, the acting American Ambas-
sadreSS in London, who will make the
presentations in the embassy circle, will
be quite at home in this setting. Nine.
van Swinderen, formerly Miss Glover
of Washington, is known as a woman
Of enviable social grace. She will in
troduce to Queen Mary the debutantes
from Holland. Baronne Cartier de
Marchienne, wife of the Belgian AM
bassador. who will present the Belgian
debutantes, also is American born, as
are the German and Bulgarian Ambas-
sadreSses and the Countess Rogeri di
Villanova. who will make the italian
presentations. All are beautiful, charm