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...beauteous Mesdames Ector Munn & Harrison Williams are U. S. chiefs for the pet French war work of the Duchess of Windsor and Lady Mendl: Les Colis de Trianon Versailles (packages and knitting for French soldiers; workroom in John Wanamaker's department store, second floor). The late John D. Rockefeller's heiress (granddaughter), the Marchioness de Cuevas, is a patron for Mrs. David Randall MacIver's American Association for Assistance to French Artists. The Committee of Mercy, Inc., founded in 1914 by the late Elihu Root and August Belmont, has been revived. It helps both French and British...
Instead of golden thrones on a dais, there was a Leap Year Birthday Cake four feet six in diameter, with 196 candles. Instead of the Royal Family, patrons (and arbiters) were the Duchess of Grafton, the Marchioness of Reading, Lady Lawrence, Mrs. Winston Churchill and Lady Duncan. Instead of being on the Crown, as at Buckingham Palace, the party cost each of the 1,100 guests a matter of 32 shillings sixpence ($6.37). And to emphasize that Britain is grimly at war, men not in uniform committed what in peacetime London would have been the most unpardonable faux pas-instead...
...Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, carrying a black knitting bag, arrived in Kansas City to speak on fashion. "I'm knitting for the Finnish soldiers," she explained...
...Society & Couturieres. Ladies of café society in France, as elsewhere, are gayly extravert in war work. Thus the Hon. Mrs. Reginald ("Daisy") Fellowes, daughter of a French duke, onetime Princesse de Broglie and friend of the Duchess of Windsor, announced herself the marraine or "godmother" not of one French soldier - the usual thing - but of an entire battalion of Chasseurs Alpins (Blue Devils), traditionally agile and gallant French fighters: She sends them English blankets and every other sort of costly trench luxury, keeps her daughters madly knitting. Recently when "Daisy" visited her delighted chasseurs they did everything they could...
...Nobody looks at her now-withered face, and since "Mees" no longer has the strength to do her Apache dances under her own power she is swung and flung about the stage by two virile youths. "Mees" last week came tottering from Bordeaux where she had been helping the Duchess of Windsor raise money for Finnish ambulances. "I may go to Holland and Belgium on tour," she croaked, "and I may go to America-there I think I might help...