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...time of the coronation draws nearer & nearer, that bright, brittle corner of London known as Mayfair becomes more conscious of its intimacy with royalty, more jealous of its standing. Last week Mayfair's tongues were wagging, and they all seemed to be saying that no one in all of Mayfair is striving more mightily to shine in the reflected dazzle of the crown jewels than that personable American named Douglas Fairbanks Jr. "He simply becomes electric when there is any royalty around," said one of the actor's friends. "Entree into the Fairbankses' home," wrote a catty...
...Knight. Ambitious Doug Fairbanks Jr., at 43, has come a long way since he was merely the son of a famous father. Matching Senior's success in both Mayfair (the first Fairbanks took a British peeress for his third wife) and moviedom, Junior has managed as well to find fame & fortune as a dabbler in many other arts, including writing, painting, warfare, diplomacy and the cultivation of friends in high places all around the world. Franklin Roosevelt died on the eve of a scheduled appointment in which Lieut. Commander Fairbanks, U.S.N.R., was to have explained a plan to smuggle...
...could a playboy like Beverley do to disperse the clouds, delay the final act, silence the raised voices? All I Could Never Be, Nichols' second autobiographical book, tells exactly what Beverley did; but, as it is well spiced with rose-geranium anecdotes and set against a backdrop of Mayfair and Riviera high life, its place on the library shelf is beside Noel Coward and Sir Osbert Sitwell rather than beside Oswald Spengler and St. Augustine...
...struggled to make both ends meet, practicing with small profit first in Welsh mining towns, then in a shabby London street. But almost overnight, his luck turned. He was called in, purely for emergency reasons, to attend a wealthy patient, and in her wake came an avalanche of Mayfair clients who filled his purse with a "golden stream." Unlike his Scottish and Welsh patients, many of these newcomers were merely "idle, spoiled and neurotic," but young Dr. Cronin was too thrilled by success to care much about that "("I was, I assure you, a great rogue at this period...
Though his fabulous Mayfair manor, Chesterfield House, took three years in the building, the earl never properly had a home. At 38, his personal fortune depleted by staggering losses at cards, he advertised for a wife ("I want merit and I want money"). He got the money from a middle-aged and somewhat vulgar countess who brought him ?50,000 in dowry and ?3,000 in annual income. After the wedding, they were rarely seen together...