15 JUNE 1934, Page 6

I confess to some sympathy with Lady Astor's opinion (interjected

characteristically at question-time in the House) that if a memorial to a woman is to be put up in a royal park there are Englishwomen who have at least as much title to be commemorated as a Russian dancer. However, the memorial to Pavlova is a presentation— no one has offered to present one of any Englishwoman— and as the work of Professor Carl Miles, of Stockholm, it will pretty certainly be an adornment to Regent's Park. But this memorial business needs watching. The Embankment Gardens are getting a little like Kensal Green. It was George Mair, I think, who said that the answer to the old _schoolmen's problem how many angels could dance on the point of a needle was " one Pavlova."