R.M.S. King George

Because they got the job of building R. M. S. Queen Mary, the thrifty Scots of John Brown's Shipyard on the Clyde have just paid a tight little dividend of one shilling (25-c-) per share, after years of paying none. Last week they got the contract to build what Britons called a "sister ship" to the Queen Mary until leading London newsorgans declared that the

Cunard-White Star Line is going to name it the King George.

The Queen Mary will now go out of service for ten days while "structural alterations" and "mechanical overhaul" are proceeded with, object being to reduce the sweep of smut from her funnels, which has been soiling the clothes of passengers on her afterdecks, and to try to get out of her the 34-knot speed officially claimed before she made her maiden voyage with a maximum speed of less than 31 knots.

Women last week read in Vogue the first artistic appreciation of the Queen

Mary by an Englishman, Artist Cecil Beaton. "The decorations have a monotony without uniformity," wrote this lily-loving young photographer of noble ladies. "There is too much woodwork. . . . The main lounge sadly misses the discarded Duncan Grant mural. The effort at being modern is decidedly forced. . . . The Veranda Grill, however, is by far the prettiest room on any ship. . . . When constructing a boat, even a luxury liner, the English do not consider their women very carefully.

There are hardly any large mirrors in the general rooms, no great flight of stairs for ladies to make an entrance." Englishman Beaton got his start with a cheap U. S. Kodak, still prefers it to the more "professional" cameras with expensive German lenses pressed upon him by Vogue. Nimble at climbing a mantelpiece while the lady relaxes below, imaginative Mr. Beaton has even gone so far as to dress the Countess of Oxford and Asquith up as a corpse and snap her surrounded by the lilies and wax candles of Death. Maiden voyagers on the Queen Mary were informed this week that they can at last buy for $5 a medal commemorating that recordless event. Maiden voyagers on the record-breaker Normandie last year received medals free before landing.

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