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When H. L. Mencken called Stripteaser Gypsy Rose Lee an ecdysiast* ten years ago, Gypsy (whose finale at the time consisted in dropping her garter belt in the tuba) called Mencken an intellectual snob, accused him bitterly of reading books. Now Gypsy has committed the final act of intellectual snobbery, written a book herself. It is a lurid, witty and highly competent detective story...
Designer Donald Oenslager's setting of Sir Colenso's dinner party on the terrace of the Star and Garter is in the grand romantic manner. But the play's best view is Katharine Cornell herself, once described by Shaw as "a gorgeous dark lady from the cradle of the human race -wherever that was-Ceylon, Sumatra, Hilo, or the southernmost corner of the Garden of Eden!" Here she wears costumes (by the English house of Motley) inspired by the paintings of the late Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931), the "Master of Swish" whose society portraits had an even...
Knight of the Bath Benito Mussolini and Knight of the Garter Vittorio Emanuele III were gazetted out of their British Orders of Chivalry last week by King George VI, along with other Italian bigwigs, German smallwigs. There were few German bigwigs to be dropped, since most of these were purged from the royal British rolls in 1915 along with Kaiser Wilhelm...
Italian King Vittorio Emanuele, who was the Senior Foreign Knight of the Garter and personally stands high in the regard of the British Royal Family, was gazetted out last week with utmost respect. The stall reserved for the Italian King in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, will merely remain vacant, instead of being assigned to some other Knight of the Garter. The knightly banner of the House of Savoy was not destroyed, but placed in the same storage vault which holds that of Kaiser Wilhelm...
...German Duke of Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha, who had been gazetted out in 1915, was gazetted back again as Knight of the Garter. In the same year he became a leader of the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK). Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha was the house of the British Royal Family, which gazetted itself the House of Windsor only...