Duke v. Marquis

Dogs are essentially useless. Nonetheless, the atavistic fondness which they arouse in humans not only saves them from extinction but enables them to some extent to be improved. Accordingly, in Manhattan last week more dogs (2,837) than ever before were benched in the Westminster Kennel Club's 59th Annual Show. Most extraordinary exhibits were three Welsh Corgis, a breed never before displayed at the show.

In Wales, Corgis have been bred for centuries as all-round farm dogs. Lately they have grown fashionable. Eight-year-old Princess Elizabeth has a Corgi which she airs in Hyde Park. At Cruft's show in London, world's biggest, almost 100 Corgis were benched. Two of the three Corgis shown in Manhattan last week were brought from England by Mrs. Lewis Roesler of Great Barrington, Mass. Because one of her specimens had frost-bitten ears, he got third prize, while Mrs. Roesler's Little Madam got first prize Of the six dogs which were judged best of their respective groups, by far the most famed was Nunsoe Due de la Terrace of Blakeen. White as a snowdrift, except for his black nose and black eyes, Nunsoe Due de la Terrace of Blakeen is the fabulous French poodle, owned by Mrs. Sherman Reese Hoyt of Katonah, N. Y., which has won the championships of Switzerland, France, England, the U. S. His owner is fond of telling the story of how Nunsoe Due de la Terrace last year dragged her on snowshoes to the Katonah railroad station in time to catch a train for Boston where he took Best of Breed in spite of frost-bitten feet. The last time she told the story was at a gathering in the Manhattan studio of an etcher where Nunsoe Due de la Terrace had not only had his portrait etched but where he himself unveiled the work by yanking a rubber mouse attached to the cord attached to the curtain on the easel (TIME, Dec. 17)Nunsoe Due de la Terrace of Blakeen's unofficial name is Duke. Last week, after reluctantly dismissing Greyhound Southball Moonstone, Collie Bellhaven Black Lucason, Sealyham Gunside Babs of Hollybourne and Pomeranian Wonder Son, Judge Alfred B. Maclay ordered Duke and Mrs. M. Hartley Dodge's fine white-&-liver pointer Nancolleth Marquis to trot around the ring again. He had them pose once more and then gave first prize--a rosette and a silver bowl--to Duke's owner.

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