3 JUNE 1922, Page 3

At Admiralty House on Monday, by invitation of Lady Leo

of Fareham, Mrs. Waldo Richards gave a reading of modern American poetry for the benefit of the Furnishing Fund of the Roosevelt Memorial Association. Particularly interesting was her interpretation of Miss Amy Lowell's clever " Patterns," a poem written in a cadenced ter* fibre of great elaboration. Like Mr. Vachel Lindsay, Mrs. Richards also excels in several negro dialects. So successful was the reading that Mrs. Richards has promised to give another—this time, at Mrs. Harvey's invitation, at the American Embassy. The date of this second reading has not yet been decided upon.