Wanted: Low Cuts

For the past three years Paris has been dictating that the evening neck line must move up and up in front. To Queen Mary this is stuff and nonsense. She can best display the Empire's peerless jewels on a low-necked evening gown, and in Her Majesty's opinion other women should employ the same basis for such jewels as they have to show. This year the Lord Chamberlain has been dutifully hinting the royal pleasure to dowagers and debutantes, but with scant result at the season's first two Royal Courts. Last week the Queen-Empress, not wishing to be the only low-necked woman at the last two Royal Courts, had the Lord Chamberlain's Office issue this mandatory ukase: "Ladies attending Their Majesties' Courts must wear low evening dresses."

Many women have been accustomed to prolong the ecstasy of their genuflection at Buckingham Palace by performing an elaborate, graceful curtsy with what is known in professional British Court circles as "the minuet effect." This, too,

Queen Mary barred, anticipated an especially crisp curtsy from the nimblest presentee on the current Court list, California's National Women's Tennis Champion Miss Helen Hull Jacobs.

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