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...admit last week that after nearly ten years the most important designer in Paris remains Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian-born daughter of a onetime Dean of the University of Rome and long-time resident in New York's Greenwich Village. Because he designs all the clothes for the Duchess of Kent as well as Mrs. Ernest Simpson's sport outfits, the next most important designer of 1937 is thoroughly British Captain Edward Henry Molyneux. Though Designer Molyneux looks, talks and acts like a dressmaker, he fought straight through the World War, was wounded three times, wears the purple-&-white...
...equal of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt in effortless daily discharge of endless public duties has for years been the Empire's popular "Smiling Duchess," that aboundingly healthy Scotswoman who is now Queen-Empress Elizabeth. Suddenly last week His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for India, the Marquess of Zetland, announced that new King George had told him the scheduled Coronation Durbar at New Delhi cannot take place next winter for reasons having to do with Queen Elizabeth's "health." The official announcement voiced vague "hope" that in some other year the Durbar of George & Elizabeth...
...Oratory was undecked and two of the six page boys, swank moppets dressed in the racing colors of the duke, behaved as lordly little scamps. One pinched another who started bawling so loudly that he had to be rushed out by an adult. After the benediction, as the Duke & Duchess of Norfolk were returning up the aisle, pew occupants were obliged to restrain another page who persisted in the notion that it would be jolly if he could manage to step on the bride's 15-ft. train of shimmering silver...
While matrons unavoidably trampled by police horses were rubbed with liniment, the Duke & Duchess slipped off from their wedding feast, popped into a buzzing two-seater sport car. They zipped to a suburban station and Britain's most famed train, The Flying Scotsman, halted to take them aboard, sped them to honeymoon on the estate of his mother, a Maxwell. Short is their Scottish holiday, for conducting the Coronation of George VI is an hereditary duty which the Duke of Norfolk must discharge, and Westminster Abbey has already been closed for preparations and rehearsals...
Stanchest of Fingard backers became the Dowager Duchess of Suffolk and Berkshire, daughter of the late Chicago department store tycoon, Levi Zeigler Leiter. Also stanch is Lieut.-General Sir Harold Ben Fawcus.K.C.B.,C.B..C.M.G., D.S.O., D.C.L., M.B., D.P.H.. Director- General of the British Red Cross, one-time Director-General of the Army Medical Services. These and others just as influential got King George V's ear, got him to order the Duke-Fingard Treatment investigated officially. Whatever its merits or demerits, now decided Health Minister Sir Kingsley Wood's men, the Treatment did not require Mr. Fingard...