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Show DEBUTANTES DRILL FOR COURT FUNCTION Brilliant Scenes "Will Be Enacted in Magnificent Ballroom of Buckingham Palace. BY IiADY MARY IIANVARING. Special Cable to Tho Tribune. LONDON, March 11. Debutantes aro already rehearsing for Urn forthcoming courts, and teachers of deportment In luxurious west-end salons arc busily engaged en-gaged In putting pretty girls "through their paces" for these all-Important events. TSo rehearsals are not so exacting ex-acting as In Queen Victoria's time, for the Georgian debutante will not have to face quite so formidable an ordeal. She will curtsy once to the king and once to the (iuceii, and then retire as gracefully ub possible to the supper room. However, How-ever, even this comparatively simple performance per-formance must be carried out to perfection. per-fection. Tho courts will bo held, as usuaJ, In the handsomest room -In Buckingham palace, the great ballroom, which has recently re-cently been magnificently redecorated and is now every bit as imposing as tho celebrated cele-brated Hall of Mirrors at Versailles-There Versailles-There aro four enormous new entrances, each over twenty-seven feet In height, and with four swing doors composed of mirrors, which reflect tho glittering scene. So wide are these doors that twelve persons can enter abreast. Lady Decies will be among the American Ameri-can girls who will be presented at. court during the summer. Gz-eat interest has been aroused in India In-dia by the proposal that Indian ladles of princely families should be atluched to the staff of the queen during her coming visit to that country. It will be remembered remem-bered that when the king and queen, then Prince and Princess of Wales, lust toured in India, one Indian chief was attached to his majesty's staff, but no Indian lady to that of the queen. Tho suggestion, therefore, there-fore, that Indian ladies of society should now attend upon her majesty at the coronation coro-nation durbar Is expected to meet with royal favor, especially since Lady Hard-Inge Hard-Inge had undertaken to communicate their request and assure the queen of their unswerving un-swerving loyalty and devotion. King George has decided to wear at .his coronation the Imperial mantle or pall worn by Glng George IV., Instead of that worn by King Edward VII., which It was his original intention to wear. The robe Is in a perfect stale of preservation, having apparently been laid in a cedar box. from which It has recently recent-ly been taken. It Is of tho llncst cloth of gold, and as fresh In appearance as If It had Just left the loom. An admirable admira-ble example of the hand-loom Industry of the Spltul fields weavers. It ha3 woven Into its surface the badges of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ire-laud. |