Double page spread from The Sketch featuring photographs of well-known figures in society in London for the summer season, principally at the first event to trigger the annual round of amusements - the private view at the Royal Academy at Burlington House. Among the individuals pictured here are Sir Gerald du Maurier, Gladys Cooper, Viscountess Curzon, Margot Asquith and Violet Bonham Carter, Gilbert Frankau, Margaret and Alison Hore-Ruthven, the Marchioness of Blandford, the Duchess of Westminster, the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, Stanley Baldwin, Kathleen Mann and George Belcher.