GREAT BRITAIN: Great Gobbet

Twenty U. S. women practiced in London last week the curtsies they proposed to make this week to King George and Queen Mary. Along with the other 19, Mrs. Charles Gates Dawes, wife of the Ambassador, would present in an atmosphere breathless with awe her own Virginia. Meanwhile Their Majesties savored with relish an emotion no less potent than awe.

They go seldom to the opera, seldom to serious plays, occasionally to farce, repeatedly to a musical comedy. They saw

Rose Marie four times (TIME, Nov. 18, 1929). Before the Royal Courts last...

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