Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1931, Page 103

THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C.—GRAVURE SECTION—APRIL 19, 1931 The Interior Decorators’ Spring Exhibition { By W. E. Hill (Copyright. 1931. by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate.) ELSIE FISHBO VAN (00 FRENCH WViCTORIAM “I wish you'd come up to my daughter’s apartment some day. She thinks something is wrong somewhere.” Interior decorator tossing a dirty look at a woman YE HO{E tN YE WAE& =y Dpcbncen handling something she shouldn't HP\\;E;!HILL MASS Elsie Fishbone von Coo has gone Victorian, all the way from French provincial, and that's a long way. Her model room i ded by the up and coming in the Decorators’ Club as some 1g pretty creative. The window drapes are of white oilcloth with neat overdrapes of printed leopard, and are the very last word I'ne Victorian sofa is upholstered in mauve doeskin. The mor ritical onlookers feel that Elsie’s model room would be pretticr <he had not left rer husband on guard while she is outside seein; her lawyersabout a lawsuit over an unpaid-for walnut whatnot ) g 1 B H 3 5 ¥ f 5 ] ‘ 4 i When Spring comes along and the decorators decide to show the lay public what they can do when they try hard, there is, of course, great rivalry as to who will achieve the pretticst model room and the niftiest booth, and as decorators and dealers gather from all parts of the country there is feverish competition. Here is the hook rug booth from New England, with Mrs. Rose Filligrce Wobbe all done up in old-fashioned costume to carry out the early American idea. To the left of Mrs. Wobbe are two of our swellest decorators condoling with each other. “My dear,” decorator number one is complaining, “I simply slaved over her apartment, i 3 and she never goes into the drawing room except to see what's wrong 4 ~ Ten-fifteen p.m with it and call me up on the phone to whine about her rug on her ¥ galloons!” . nearly closing time, and a good thing it is, for Vir- ginia Neely Fussbudget (French decor.) is nearly ready to pass out, what with sitting there in her model French room watching the crowd file past. This is the hour when a naturally nervous girl gets introspective and begins to wonder how it would seem if all the French antiques in the world were shoved into the river “Would vou be interested in subscribing at special rates to_our new R s LR 3 - e . " e it AT At e Collector'? i'm sure vou would” This is Well, 1 don't care whether it's Sheridan or Chiffondale;; “I had a_gorgeous idea for a period screen in black lacquer with big magazine entitle ¢ Antig ollectc b { on at the magazine booth from 2:30 to 10:30 p.m. every day for ll 1-want is to sit down on something! My arches are killing dragons and fish and things, but she couldn’t see it. Absolutely no vision.” w ml wen SO B ;’rl mll el @b soiibers bl v Wil wemsHs me.” (Just a hoy friend who knows his period stuff showing These three decorator boys are taking a little stroll among the competitors’ Im-akdm\m