American Girls and Curtsey Etiquette

A proper curtsey to Queen Elizabeth II.
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Claim Girls Not Learning How To Walk

Most American girls do not know how to walk, dance or sit down, says Eveline McCullagh, authority on Royal Court etiquette. She's co-producer of the National Baby and Children's Show August 4 to 12.

Miss McCullagh’s business, among other things, is to train debutantes for presentation at court. She says: “It's appalling how ignorant American girls are about the rudiments of carriage and deportment. They slump. They giggle. They speak a strange patois of their own. They comb their hair in public. Most of them do not even know how to make a proper curtsy, for goodness sake!”

This decorative lady, who is given to large picture hats and flashing jewelry, was born in England of Irish parentage. She studied as a concert pianist in her childhood and took up the teaching of ballroom dancing and court etiquette when the family fortunes wavered.

Between tours of the United States, Miss McCullagh teaches the finer points of ballroom dancing to assorted royalty and financial moguls in the 60-room family home in England, which includes a 100-foot ballroom.

Among her pupils have been such notables as the Duke of Kent, King Alphonso of Spain, King Farouk, the King of Siam, the Maharajah and Maharanee of Patiala, India, and some of the better known American movie stars, such as Bob Hope, Van Johnson, Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer— By Dorothy Roe, AP Women’ s Editor, Santa Cruz Sentinel, 1956

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