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...Once the Duchess of Queensbury came to a Nash-managed dance wearing a white apron (contrary to the Nash rules). He untied the offending garment and flung it to a group of maids in waiting-with profound protestations of respect for Her Grace...
...always doing it," said his Duchess later. "He's very clever at it." "The Duke," commented the awed Evening Standard, "has a remarkable eye. He is one of the leading shots in the country...
...Duchess of Windsor, resplendent in blue at the fair's opening, was heard to remark that she found Picasso's new things "beautiful, but I wonder what use one could make of them." Whatever their possible use, Picasso had obviously enjoyed making them. When night fell on the fair's opening day, Picasso turned smiling to an assistant in his factory workroom and said, "You know, Jules, I am happy here. I think I'll never leave...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor celebrated the Duke's 54th birthday at the Stork Club, next day sailed off for their occasional home in France, with a modest retinue and 120 pieces of luggage...
There was Giovanni Boldini's wispy Duchess of Marlborough propped stiffly on her spindly divan; Whistler had caught bewhiskered Theodore Duret wistfully holding a lady's opera cape in some carpeted corridor. And William M. Chase had come upon the bemonocled Whistler sporting an absurd little cane and striking his dandy's pose. But most of the Edwardians represented at the museum (the Phelps Stokeses, the Wyndham sisters, Mme. Gautreau, Miss Ada Rehan, Henry Marquand) had sought out, or been sought out by, the slickest and most fashionable painter of their day to immortalize them -John Singer...