TITLED SHOP GIRL

Shannon News, 19 February 1929, Page 4

TITLED SHOP GIRL

ADVENTURE IN NEW YORK. An American newspaper states that Lady Doria Lois Hope Pelham-Clinto-Hope, the elder daughter of the Duke of Newcastle, has been working for some time past as a shop girl in a large department store in New York. ■ Lady Doria, who is 20 years of age, went to the United States in October, accompanied by her brother and Miss Leonora' Highct, and took a position at £5 a week in a fashionable shop in New York. She has been living with Miss Highct 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 of 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 in London.. So congenial was the life, howover, 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, and said, ‘Good morning, Lady Doria!’ The young “shop girl” saw that the “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 tie venture has upset the girls and they are undecided whether or not they will continue working.