TITLED SHOP GIRL

Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1929, Page 8

TITLED SHOP GIRL

ADVENTURE IX NEW YORK. An American'newspapers states that Rady Doria Lois Hope Pelham-Ci" Hope, the elder daughter of the Duke of Newcastle has been working for sonic time past as a shop girl in a !arg> department store in New York. Lady Doria, who is ‘JO years of age, went to the United States in October, accompanied by her brother and Mes Leonora Highet, and took a position at £o a week in a fashionable snop m New York. She has been living with Miss Highet in a flat in Greenwich Village, New York’s “ Bohemia.” Miss Highet meanwhile obtained a post with a firm of house decorators.

The scheme was, apparently, largely {if an unconventional nature, but the girls also had a serious desire to learn the latest American ideas with a view to opening a decorating shop ir London. So congenial was the lile, however. that Lady Doria. it is stated, considered applying for an extension of her visitor’s passport beyond the fixed period of six months in order to prolong her stay. But one morning a customer entered the shop, stepped up to the counter, iViid'said, “Good morning., Lady Doria !’• The young “ shop girl ” saw that her “game was up.” She gave notice to her employers the same day and fled to Washington, where she became the guest of a prominent American society woman. The publicity aroused by the venture lias upset the girls, and they aro undecided whether or not tlie.i uill continue working.