London, Dec. 29.
No woman would ever admit that she shared anything in common with the catty, frivolous and altogether undesirable females in Miss Clare Boothe's famous play, "The Women," the film version of which has just had its first showing im London. Perhaps, Miss Boothe's unpleasant characters do not exist in any large numbers. Certainly the average woman is neither cruel nor cunning, even if she does hail from London, Paris or New York.
Those who still accuse her of living for dress instead of dressing to live might have done well to follow me the other afternoon into the Finnish Embassy to see a superb collection of fur coats, All of these had been taken out of personal wardrobes and given to Finnish evacuees who are pouring into town, Fur coats have been sent into the Embassy from all over the country and their donors range from the highest to the lowest in the land.
The Duchess of Westminster, Lady Swaythling, actresses end the wives of aircraft are just some of hundreds of warm-hearted folk anxious to give up their winter coats for this good cause. Others, who will miss their usual winter' sports holiday this year, have sent in their skiing clothes,
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