I went in yesterday to see the memorial exhibition of the late Sir John Lavery in the Leicester Galleries. There are not many of his portraits which brought him fame, and of those shown a leading critic remarks severely that "They are hardly in his best style"—this notably of a picture painted in 1936 of Sir John with his palette and brushes bending towards Shirley Temple. But I had the bad taste to find it rather charming, having a reprehensive fancy for pictures of pretty little girls who really look like little girls and not like amorphous cretins with elongated heads and hands the size of an elephant's foot, They Show Their Frocks to the Queen Fourteen little girls went to Buckingham Palace to show the Queen ihe pretty frocks the British Cotton Board had designed for America and other overseas markets, Not even the air raid warning im the middle of it spoiled the pleasure of the visit, Afterwards the manner quins had lunch at the Palace.
The one on the left is Virginia Vernon, aged 5, and four-year-old Georgina Goddard is showing her teddy bear to the Queen, expensive restaurant But when we read that several large cargoes of meat from Australia, which no doubt might otherwise have come to us have been landed in Greece, which previously had had practically none, we are consoled. For if anyone de. served the best that we can give them, it is the Greeks.
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