GREAT BRITAIN: Courts Royal

The wife of the Japanese Ambassador, plump, cheerful Mme Matsudaira; the wife of the Chinese Minister, thin, nervous Mme Sze; and the wife of the U. S. Ambassador, pale, placid Mrs. Dawes, each presented her daughter last week to King George & Queen Mary.

Wromen presented at the first two Royal Courts of the London Season (the last two will be on the nights of June 9 & 10) totaled over 400. As usual the largest group of "foreigners" were U. S. women, 20 of them. But outstanding in the whole assemblage was sweet-seventeenish...

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