Show These Women By ADELAIDE KERR KERB KERRA KERBA A foot five-foot husky voiced mid mid- aged dle-aged spinster is zooming around London in one of England's England's England's Eng Eng- lands land's toughest wartime jobs She is red-headed red Ellen WIlkinson Wilkinson Wil Wll- kinson who has the staggering task of keeping ping England's mil millions lions happy underground Besides BesIdes Besides Be Be- sides being a member of parliament parliament parlIament parlia parlIa- ment Stormy Petrel Wilkinson Wilkin WIlkIn- son is also parliamentary undersecretary undersecretary undersecretary un un- un- un to the ministry of home security So she races around each night inspecting big communal shelters built in underground underground underground un un- un- un tubes and basements She says Our first job was to find Ind shelters and make people peo peon pIe comfortable in them Now we have a new problem People People Peo Pea pie like to live in the shelters and we must guard against turning them into night clubs Wee Ellen the daughter of ofa a Manchester insurance agent has found life one long bat bat- tle tie She has been in politics 23 years In that time she has crusaded crusaded crusaded cru cru- for workingmen foundlIngs foundlings foundlings found found- lings and women has been shouted down in commons shelled in Spain and bombed out of two houses and one office in London But nothing seems to quench her vitality and enthusIasm Nobody but Ellen Wilkinson herself knows how many hours a day she works She is up early for a breakfast of tea and biscuits polishes off her office tasks and then tak takes s her one luxury luxury luxury-a a hearty English lunch in a swank restaurant She doesn't take time for tea but makes supper on sardines and toast in her office and then begIns begins begins be be- gins her shelter tour When that is ended she goes to bed on ona ona ona a cot beside her drab wooden desk Sophie Kerr Underwood's study in which she turns out her stories Is papered with five big hued brown-hued maps of Paris whose originals were drawn in 1734 The study's most striking ornaments are cats pictures cats pictures and statues of them and two live black ones ones' Mr r. r Big and Mr Baby who roam in and out while Mrs Underwood wood works Hortense concert pianist wants to puncture the prima donna system She be- be belIeves believes be be- the artist should be subordInated subordinated subordinated to the music frowns on the presentation of flowers durIng during during dur dur- ing a concert and thinks encores encores encores en en- cores should be abolished Miss practices in a big bare room whose furniture besIdes besides besides be be- sides the piano is a ping pong pang table and a bust of Beethoven Madame Chao Yu-tang Yu a 65 year-old year peasant is one of Chinas China's most famous guerilla band leaders Nine years ago when the Japanese first invaded Manchuria she borrowed a pistol and began to practice shooting l Later she rounded up her band I of several thousand guerillas and now commands them She says If women are not timid military mIll mIll- tary men will not be cowardly Smart New Yorkers who are for Britain are wearIng wearing wearing wear wear- ing yarn holder bracelets bracelets sim sim simple gold rings with a bobbin and chain on which they balls of yarn Virginia Peines Peine's favorite lapel gadget Isa Isa is isa a crab with a huge aquamarine body ruby eyes and quivering white gold claws After sInging singIng singIng sing- sing Ing a heavy WagnerIan role KIrsten Flagstad puts herself to tos s sleep i l 1 1 e e p Pl playing solitaire s sleep i l 1 1 e e p Pl playing solitaire Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg guards her plain gold wedding ring with three jeweled hoops of sapphires diamonds dla- dla monds and rubles rubies f Raymonde Legendre youthful daughter of the king of Siam's Slams former chef makes pin money by canning and selling her fa fathers father's fathers father's fa- fa 1 ther's onion soup and curried rice Mrs John Shephard I Jr wife wile of a former Palm Beach mayor accents her evening coiffure coif coif- fure with a diamond frog m Suzanne Belgian r sculptress has made a inch 10 statuette of Prime Minister Churchill to be sold for the benefit benefit bene bene- fit of the British American Ambulance Ambulance Ambulance Am Am- corps Eve Curies Curie's lecture tour hats are felt fe fedoras fedoras fedoras fe- fe doras misted in veils Patricia Patricia Patricia Pa Pa- tricia Morison of the movies treasures an antique black lace fan given her by Diego go Rivera |