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With marvelous stateliness the Lord Chamberlain, the Earl of Cromer, walking backwards, led the King-Emperor and Queen-Empress through the state apartments to their raised dais in the lofty cream-&-gold Throne Room. At the first court, the Duke of York and the Duke of Gloucester were of the Royal Party. At the second court Edward of Wales appeared with Prince George, this being the usual division of labor among the four royal brothers. At both courts King George wore a uniform predominantly scarlet—first, the scarlet of the Scots Guards; second, the scarlet of the Coldstream Guards. Queen Mary wore, first, a gown of peach-pink chiffon embroidered in pale pink seed pearls; second, one of soft grey georgette embroidered in pink steel beads. At both courts the prodigious Kohinoor diamond of 106 1/16 carats blazed upon Her Majesty's breast beside the blue ribbon of the Garter. Queen Mary's head, one of the most regal of all time, was surmounted by a diamond tiara. The sight was one to awe:
Miss Barbara Hutton of New York, heiress to $15,000,000 left by her grandfather Frank Winfield (5¢ & 10¢) Woolworth, daughter of Socialite Franklyn L. Hutton. Just before court time last week Mrs. Hutton told reporters that her daughter might not attend "because of a sore throat," but this proved a false alarm.
Miss Louise Behn (New York), daughter of the world-potent I. T. & T. telephone tycoon Hernand Behn, gowned by Molyneaux in silver and white lace, carrying a sheaf of lilies.
Miss Margaretta Duane (Boston), daughter of Harvard's physicist, Professor William Duane, in a creamy creation of "angel's skin" (peau d'ange) satin, carrying a white ostrich fan.
Miss Adele Townsend Jahncke (New Orleans), daughter of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke, her white satin princess gown accented by hip and hem lines of silver-embroidered ovals, these repeated in her headdress wreath of silver ovals.
Miss Jasmine Schoellkopf (Niagara Falls, N. Y.), daughter of President Paul Arthur Schoellkopf of Niagara Falls Power Co.
Miss Bertha Potter Palmer (Chicago), daughter of Capitalist Potter Palmer (a generation removed from the famed Palmer House hotel founded by his father Potter Palmer).
Miss Edith Curtis Martin (Wyncote, Pa.), stepgranddaughter of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis.
No unmarried woman from the U. S. Far West was presented, but for the State of Washington curtsied Mrs. Clarence C. Dill, wife of the Senator who is an Odd Fellow, Mason, Moose, Elk.
The former Mrs. Helen Wilson (Scottish), who married last year the Sultan of Johore, appeared at Court last week as a Sultana, gorgeous in a rose-pink gown of jervisa Bengale. Her throat was in a diamond collar, her head proudly supporting the fabulous tiara of Johore, studded with diamonds the size of pigeon-eggs. Beside her paced her Sultan, also ablaze with jewels, laced into a blue uniform with great loops of gold.
*Appendicitis so super-acute is known professionally as perityphlitis.