TELLING EPISODES

Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21361, 4 March 1941, Page 3

TELLING EPISODES

AMERICAN S IMPRESSIONS ONE DRESS A YEAR Paquin’s celebrated salon in Paris was crowded, and among those examining the stylish coats and wraps was Lady Decies, American-born peeress. Suddenly, a well-upholstered man strode in, eyed a coat in Lady Denies’ hands—she was just about to buv it—and said: “ I’ll take tnat coat for my wife.” “ I didn’t argue with him,” the former Elizabeth Wharton Drexel, of Philadelphia, explained after her arrival in New York on the American liner Excalibur. “ He was Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering. It was a nice coat, too.” she sighed. “Beige, with a fur collar.” Lady Decies said Marshal Goering has a residence in the former French capital. She asserted she had seen luxurious furniture being moved into the Palais du Luxembourg—seat of the French Senate since 1879—for the Reichsmarshal. 1 She said the Germans had taken over all the better-known hotels, including the Crillon, the Ritz. and the Continental. Conditions in Paris, she added, were steadily getting worse. “ Even if you have a hundred ration cards,” she said, “ it is almost impossible to buy soap or olive oil, and you can purchase only one pair of shoes and one dress a year.”