The Season

The London Season began under a cloudless sky with two brilliant courts at Buckingham Palace, and will end after four days' racing at Ascot (June 16-20).

First Court. Assembled in the Throne room were about 1,000 guests. The men were clad in brilliant uniforms, bemedaled and bedecorated. The ladies, in a riot of gorgeous color, provided a spectacle more brilliant than any witnessed since 1914. At 9:30 o'clock in the evening, the King, in the uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Life Guards, and the Queen, draped in a gown of silver tissue, entered the Throne Room. The band struck up God Save the King. Their Majesties stopped; upon the conclusion of the anthem, His Majesty made a curt nod of acknowledgment and took his place with the Queen upon the throne dais. Members of the Royal Family and numerous officials and attendants took up their allotted

places.

The presentations were mainly from

the diplomatic and official circles.

Americans presented by Ambassador

and Mrs. Houghton: Mrs. Luke McNanue, wife of the London naval attache; Mrs. Herbert F. Leary, wife of the assistant naval attache; Mrs. Claude A. Jones, wife of the attache for aviation; the Misses Marion and Alice Tully of Corning, N. Y., Ambassador and Mrs. Houghton's nieces; Mrs. John Lawrence of Boston; Mrs. John Taylor of Philadelphia; Mrs. Williamson S. Howell, wife of the first Secretary of the U. S. Legation in Warsaw; Miss Jean Field Blair, Richmond, Va.; Miss Mary Louise Butterfield, Chestnut Hill, Mass.; Miss Elizabeth Irving Chase, Waterbury, Conn.; Miss Suzette Dewey, Chicago; Miss Helen Edwards, Cincinnati; Miss Betty Galey of London, daughter of the Director of the American University Union and Miss Joan Williams, Chicago.

Attending the Court were the following wives of members of the Embassy staff:

Mrs. Boylston A Beal, with her daughter, Miss Elizabeth Beal; Mrs. Frederick A. Sterling, Mrs. Jerome O. Hunsaker, Mrs. Kenyon A. Joyce, Mrs. Earl J. Atkisson, Mrs. Stewart O. Elting and Mrs. Howard C. Davidson.

Second Court. At the Second Court, the King appeared in the uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Scots Guards. Queen Mary wore a dress of pale gold lame, ornamented with diamonds. On her head she wore a brilliant coronet of emeralds and diamonds and around her neck were priceless jewels, the most conspicuous of which was the carved Indian emerald presented to her at the Durbar of 1911.

Americans presented:

Miss Jane Hamilton Brady of Gladstone, N. J., granddaughter of the Countess of Limerick; Miss Ursula Corning of Litchfield, Conn., daughter of H. J. Corning, Professor of Medicine in the University of Basle, Switzerland; Mrs. Howell H. Howard of Dayton, Ohio; Miss Irene Jamieson, Spokane, Wash., Oxford student; Mrs. Archibald H. Rowan, Irvington-on-the-Hudson, N. Y.; Miss Laura Thompson, Lake Forest, Ill..; Mrs. Alexander Tuck of Maryland and Mrs. Wallace Payne Moats of Mexico City.