DEBUTANTES OF 1939

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 143, 13 March 1939, Page 4

DEBUTANTES OF 1939

A Record Year For Court Presentations (“Dominion” Special Service: By Airmail.) LONDON, February 16. THIS year promises to create a record in the number of interesting and important debutantes who will be presented at the various courts. There are. the daughters of two dukes and the nieces of two others. The Duke of Alarlborough’s daughter, Lirdy Sarah Churchill, is one aud Lady Anne Ritzßoy, daughter of the Duke of Grafton, another. There are also Miss Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, niece of the Duke of (Sutherland and the Duchess of Buccleuch’s daughter, Aliss Clare Phipps. Airs. Neville Chamberlain is presenting her niece, Miss Valerie Cole. Aliss Cole is at present staying with her aunt at No. 10 Downing Street, where entertainments will be held in her honour.

Lady Ravensdale is bringing out her niece, Miss Vivien Mosley, daughter ot her sister, the late Lady Cynthia Mosley. Both Miss Mosley and Miss Leve-son-Gower speak several languages fluently, having been educated on the Continent and having travelled extensively.

Miss Naomi de Rothschild, the 18-year-old daughter of Mrs. Lionel de Rothschild, who is also making her debut, is an expert pianist and has been doing a great deal of A.R.P. work since her return from a finishing school in .Switzerland.

Miss Helena Lambton, the niece of Lord Durham, is another clever debutante who is very interested in literature. About a year ago she combined with members of the Modern Girl Club, of which she also is a member, to write a “thriller.” There will be no crinolines at this year’s courts, but the skirts will-be full and long, measuring quite 10 yards round the hems. The most popular tones will be white and off-white, and pastel lames will also be worn. Miss Vacant, who has taught the art of the curtsey to Royalty and the leading members of society for many years, is very busy just now. Every day groups of girls are gathering together in Knightsbridge to practice their obeyances for the coming courts.

It is a serious business. Time after time the debutante, with a lace curtain draped over her shoulders for a train and carrying an artificial bouquet or feather fan, has to approach the improvized “throne,” accompanied by someone deputising as the sponsor.

The right degree ot balance has to be achieved and the debutante must keep her eyes open, as often the pers-on accompanying her purjxisely makes a false step, which might easily happen on the occasion itself, and it is the debutante’s task to watch out for this so that an ungraceful collision may not occur.

Gihlet Pie. Scald two or three sets of goose giblets, pick and singe them; take the outer skin off the feet, which, with the pinions cut into two, the neck into three, the gizzard into four, and the liver and heart into two bits; wash them clean, put them in a saucepan, cover them with water, add two onions, a little salt, and a teaspoonful of whole, black pepper. Stew till the gizzards be tender; take them out and put them into the piedish, season them with more pepper and salt, strain the liquor, and add half a pint of it with a glass of port wine; when cold put puff paste round the edge of the dish, and cover it with the same.

Mr. and Mrs. J.' Livingstone will leave Dannevirke today for Dunedin, where Mrs. Livingtsone will attend the meeting of the Dominion Advisory Board of the W.D.F.U.

Cocoa stains on clothing should be sponged immediately with cold water. Do not use hot water, as it is likely to set the stain.