The Archive · 1939

Lot of the Shop-Girl

The conditions-under which shop-the alleged extravagance of one of these parties in a way which, as the lawyers put it, held her up to "hatred, ridicule and contempt" in the eyes of the proletariat, In fact, Mrs. Albertini is a very warm-hearted, generous woman and if she likes to give vast parties it is all for the good of trade, Now she is going to spend huge sums on White Lodge. It is a comparatively small house, merely 60 rooms, but a Lady chapel is to be made out of the picture gallery, lifts and central heating installed, and of course every room redecorated and refurnished.

One takes a sort of vicarious pleasure in the thought that one at least of these old mansions is to be properly preserved. Another very famous house in Berkeley Square is going to the knackers. This is Lord Rosebery's, scene of so many brilliant evenings when it was owned by that Curious Liberal peer who won the Derby, was a genius in foreign affairs, wrote an epoch-making life of Napoleon in odd moments, and drew tears from the House of Lords by his oration on the death of Gladstone. Like his house Lord Rosebery seemed like something strayed over from the 18th century. But the glory of Ber-kelly Square has gone, with a vast mountain of ugly flats all down one side and most of the remainder given up to shops or estate offices. Such movements and degradations are continuous and inevitable. Within the past century great noblemen still

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