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Since the Emperor & Empress are young & strong, their guests waited confidently in the rain, Britishers recalling that at Buckingham Palace garden parties Their Majesties have marquees run up in case of bad weather, receive with undiminished graciousness under canvas. Last week Tokyo flunkies rushed about the palace garden in jittery excitement while guests huddled under trees. It kept on raining and Their Majesties simply did not appear. With an estimated $200,000 worth of silken kimonos sodden and streaked, Japanese socialites slipped quietly away, but most foreign guests as they departed made audible remarks...
...service from, $9,000,000 to $16,000,000 (approximate), His Majesty decided last week not to risk it at the Jubilee banquet. Guests will eat off china, may afterward view the gold plates, some of which some of them might have snitched, in a brightly lighted, closely guarded Buckingham Palace showcase. Even a butter plate would have been good...
...Seal Anthony Eden arrived in Moscow to confer with Joseph Stalin (see p. 19), King George again found means to show his strong feelings. Unimpressed by the fact that Bolshevik leaders were drinking his health at Moscow in champagne, an all-time high for hypocrisy, George V called to Buckingham Palace and privately knighted M. Peter Bark, the last Finance Minister of Nicholas...
...evening Their Majesties, though it had been announced that Edward of Wales would perform the chore to spare his parents, held the first two courts of the year at Buckingham Palace. Irma, spouse of Jesse Isidor Straus, U. S. Ambassador to France, was presented in what her dressmaker called "a gown of ice-blue silver lame of streamline cut." At a hint from the Queen most debutantes and dowagers omitted lipstick, mascara, rouge. Since Buckingham Palace was distinctly chilly, some of them grumbled at the Lord Chamberlain's requirement that they appear in decollete. Not to be intimidated, several...
BRAVE MR. BUCKINGHAM - Dorothy Kunhardt - Harcourt, Brace ($1). A toy Indian made of Nugg could always say, in spite of calamities, "THAT DIDN'T HURT." Nonsense with a moral, for children (and adults) by the author of Junket Is Nice...