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the mural — fully twenty feet across — by Ben Ali Haggin, a portrait of Mrs. Ziegfeld and Patricia, donein 1924. On the other side there is one of Patricia alone, by Oswald Burley, painted when she was nine years old.
One divan is upholstered in yellow satin damask, another in orchid. Two chairs are covered with dark-green brocaded satin, one with rose velvet, and there is a beige love-seat.
Delicately chased silver vases, four feet tall, orchid [amps and a few Chinese scrolls in subtle tints comprise the ornaments.
Red curtains, a tan-and-scarlet-striped divan and club chairs make the den a cheery room. Crowded, too, with thai air of family occupancy: a desk heaped with letters, shelves of books, photographs of Mr. Ziegfeld and of many fi icnds.
Hough tan stucco walls paneled in dark wood, and brown chairs with ga) yellow cushions, invite us into the
playroom, ai one end which is Ye Olde Pub, wi its pewter tankards.
Flitting before us wi her butterfly grace, o hostess leads us up t; winding stairs, through hall and into her bedrooi Turquoise walls and ru and white-and-yellow cu tains, form the backgrour for the satinwood furnitu The wide, low bed has mauve satin spread. At i foot is an antique pri dieu.
Chairs covered in bisqi and in mauve, a glas topped table, and Japane: water colors combine add charm. In seasoi masses of hydrangeas flan the white marble fireplac "For loveliness," Mi Burke murmured, "I choo: my bedroom or my dinin room. They seem to hob condensed, the lavish Iu: ury of my former homi But when I am tired th den is most restful. I ca it my 'give up and slumt room.
"The most importar thing in a readjustment i to maintain a standard, she said later. "We mus hold true to our ideals adapting them, in details to changed circumstances Otherwise the spirit woul] sag and we would feel fu tile, drift, get sloppy.
"Our linens must b
changed daily. That is on
luxury to which I clirij
stubbornly. Everything must be immaculate. And I mus
have flowers. That means 1 must work — and economize ill
other ways."
I had said to her, "I understand that you live in a statt of studied elegance." Laughingly she had responded. "Oh it's studied all right ! You should see us bending over ou; budget.
"We don't care for meat; we prefer vegetables servec with delicious sauces, and elaborate salads.
"But we find that we can concoct a meat dinner raon cheaply than a vegetable-and-fruit meal. The Ziegfelds' — she sighed ruefully — "always seem to like the most ex pensive things."
Patricia, now twenty, superintends the household's man agement and makes out the menus under her mother': guidance. Miss Burke is the first one up each morning, ai five thirty when she is working, at (Continued on -page 73