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...meet Dancer Adele Astaire, Kokoschka was taken backstage after one of her London performances of Lady Be Good (with brother Fred). She was the toast of Mayfair, and Kokoschka asked her to pose. Now 59 and the trim-figured wife of Wall Street Broker Kingman Douglass, Adele recalls that she "thought it would be fun. I was cunning then-I was Alice in Wonderland." With her Scotty Wassie, she went to Kokoschka's Kensington studio twice a week for two months, dolled up in a Madame Jenny dress of blue velvet with a pale, pleated skirt. To her annoyance...
...years the British dreamed of an East African federation combining Uganda, of which Buganda is officially a province, with Kenya and Tanganyika. But Cambridge-educated King Freddie, as he was known in Mayfair society, dreamed of independence. In 1953 the British rashly hustled him off into exile in London, had to back down when the Baganda threatened to become completely unmanageable. In 1955, as drums rolled and tom-toms boomed, King Freddie came home in triumph...
...prams, London exhibits no district more decorous and decorative than St. John's Wood. But in Queen Victoria's gilded reign a century ago, this first of the city's garden suburbs had another reputation. Then noble Britons liked to steal away from their confining Mayfair mansions and visit leafy little hideaways in St. John's Wood. There George IV and Napoleon III kept their well-hidden mistresses; beauteous Lily Langtry waited for Edward VII at 20 Wellington Road; many less famous women lived in well-kept seclusion with nothing to do but listen...
With Tony gone, things were pretty dull. Without the Moynihan flair, his merry circle of Mayfair friends were reduced to such joyless pleasures as dropping Coke bottles from party windows and wishing wanly that Tony would return. Last week Tony indeed came back...
...From noon until the small hours of the morning, London's vast troop of trollops are busy as squirrels in the fashionable West End as well as in Limehouse. Many have regular stations. They throng four deep on the sidewalks under the bright lights of Piccadilly Circus, patrol Mayfair, Park Lane and-Bond Street with the lighthearted aplomb of 4-H members at a county fair. The attractions of prostitution in easygoing Britain are also luring large numbers of foreign women-French, German, Belgian, and a sprinkling of Negroes, mostly from the West Indies...