Social Notes

The weather, proverbially lovely in the Bavarian lake country, couldn't have been better. Pert little sailboats darting about the indigo water of the Tegernsee, against a background of hazy blue mountains, made the perfect setting for a season that had not been equaled in brilliance for six years.

Guests at the many cocktail parties tinkling daily in the lakeside chalets (almost all of them are open this year) miss the familiar sight of Prince Rupprecht. The popular dean of Bavarian society has been something of a recluse since the illness of his wife. But handsome Emmy Goering and her plump, delightful daughter Edda have been much in evidence. Emmy planned to keep her life simple this summer, but she has relented sufficiently to give many an intimate, dazzling dinner party for visiting officers.

Perhaps the gayest of all the matrons are Frau Keitel (her husband, like Field Marshal Goering, has been detained on business in Nuernberg) and young Frau von Blomberg (who met her late husband, the War Minister, in one of Berlin's most exclusive brothels); they share a ten-room chalet high above the lake.

Since her daughter Sigrid's wedding, the event of the season, dignified Frau Hans Frank (her husband was the former governor of Poland) has been taking things easier, wining and dining only such close friends as Frau Wilhelm Frick and Frau Walther Funk.

Among the first to acknowledge the gay courage shown by the Bavarian society ladies (who have been through so much these last years) are the gallant young U.S. lieutenants, captains and majors. Their uniforms add to Tegernsee parties that touch of martial color for which Bavarian society has ever been distinguished.

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