. Van painter a | favorite of queen Eleanor army. 11 was either that or the Protect yourseli Hire an experienced THIS column is a ICBC Claims Lawyer ~ very handy thing to have. It keeps me in touch with , an awful lot of stuff pertain- _ ing to us old folks without my ever having to ask. Via the mail, through the telephone, _by hand, | am made privy to all sorts of projects aimed at ~ our comfort and instruction. ‘Some of them I can’t handle + things too narrow in their application, and I have to refuse. ~ But there was no waffling about the invitation to have an interview with a West Vancouver painter lady, whose work has been accept- ed by the Royals to hang in “one of their collections. The painting was described as a ~ head-and-shoulders of the “ Queen Mother. ->. - Right away I said “surely,” I would be pleased to meet the lady so that I could in tum tell you all about this lovely circumstance. We old fogies have had abundant reason to alter our attitudes to current royalty, but we have always felt warmly towards the Scottish lass who made such a good job of being Queen a: over us. We'll endorse a com- Nt to her any time. And i can tell you, the portrait that Elizabeth Smily has done simply glows with the lovely smile of this queen- ly: lady in’a blue dress, that | blue she favers and which suits her so well. Beset gh she must have felt many times, she has kept her balance and her dignity. ° despite the well-publicized - gs of her grandchildren. » One cannot imagine her an’ ve but serene and smil- stranger to honors. Her child- hood in Yorkshire was unfor- - nately masred by a congeni- tal eye problem that made her age I5, when was allowed to opt out of formal schooling i in” the Royal Society of the Arts, amongst other honors. And this was indicated when she was named the best student of 949 when she graduated, The cash that'came with that onor allowed her the cachet f her own studio, and her irst showing was opened by” Alliances $3.95 You saw it first az... Godiey nig vintage years Academicians, Sir Henry Rushbury. Soon she would be paint- ing people such as Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart and Trevor Howard, as well as a magnificent white-robed African chieftain wearing a crown of coral. He brought his fourth wife for the sittings. When war broke out there was nothing for it, Elizabeth was conscripted into the AVLORMOTI ? : TRANSMISSION SPECIALISTS ) SERVICE & munitions factory, but she emerged unscathed (o paint again. She was still a young woman when a new husband brought her to Canada, to Monweal, where she soon was able to have a show. She had begun to paint children, and she says herself she became a sort of fad. 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