WEST END DOLL SHOW.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1653, 21 January 1913, Page 2

WEST END DOLL SHOW.

QUEEN HARY CONTRIBUTES A - MODEL PEERESS.

In the quaint .Persian Room, at Lady Bland-Sutton's residence in Brook Street, W., a Dolls' Congress was held on- November 19, under the auspices of ttw Children's Happy Evenings Association [ of which tho Countess of Jersey is thli president and Lady Bland-Sutton tho lion, secretary. , There is a remarkable display of dolls, not a few of which had tneir costunies designed , and , mado by i fashionable jnodistes. - One party of dolls was labelled Tho ,Bolligeronts," and wero dressed to represent privates in tho armies fighting in tho Balkans. ■ Tho various embassies in ; London had been consulted to ensure accuracy in the details of the uniforms. Queen Mary, as a patron of the exhibition, sent a group of dolls, ; ono. of vms in, the robos of a peeress, while others were dressod as a Court lady-and gentloman., ' '• • • .< '

r,? 1 !?- ™ s the gift of Miss Phylliß Neilson-Terry,' and' was attired m Queen Elizabeth,' the. Character". wiich' she plays in "Drake." Another notable doll was a: "baby," named "Conrad," and rumour whispers that Mr. Hall, Came became so attached to it—it was dressed by hia wife—that he was reluctant to part with it. At any rate, he is said to have christened it "Conrad."

, Large, as the Persian Room is, the dolls overflowed into a second aparhncnt, where there was a beautiful group in lato Georgian costume, : reproducing the figures of a cjuadnlle. In a "wonderful women" series were to bo seen Graco Darling, Elizabeth Pry, Joan of Arc, George Eliot, and Mme. Curio, i

Many well-known society people contributed dolls, the donors including Lady Wornher, Lady Harcourt/Lady Bilrgoync, Lady Dallas. Lady Dynovor, Mrs. Otto •Beit, Lady Cornwall, Ladv Bavnes, Lady Llangattock, Countess of Longford, Leila Lady Samuelson, Lady Mansfield Clark, Lady Theodora Guest, Countess of Clancarty, Countess of Selkirk, Ladv Cowdray, Sjr Starr Jameson, Mrs. IllingworthMitcholl, Lady Alexander, Ladv Octavia Shaw-Stewart, Mrs. F; E. Smith, Lady Caroline , Gordon-Lennox, Hon, Mary Douglas-Pennant, Lady Jephson, and Hon Emily Ward. This is the fifteenth show that lias been held. Tho dolls wore afterwards distributed amongst tho 117 girls' brandies of tho association, which, with its' affiliated institutions, .provides 35,000 children in 176 schools with two hours' play at a cost of '.£SOO a year.