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...describes the troubles of a Blimpish colonel and his mousy, neglected wife whose little volume of passionate love poems suddenly becomes a nationwide bestseller. Cecil Parker and Nora Swinburne are just right in the leading roles, and the camera makes some telling, acidulous comments on club-chair Berties and Mayfair literati...
...London, U.S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas contributed to good Anglo-U.S. relations by bringing a touch of horse opera into Mayfair. A startled horse, ridden by a lady on her way to Rotten Row, began to rear and plunge in front of Douglas' car. Rancher Lew (he owns some wide acres in Arizona) jumped from his car, caught the ornery critter by the bridle, led it to the safety of the bridle path. Then, in true western hero style, he shyly left the scene without even asking the name of the rescued lady...
Beauteous Kay Summersby, the onetime Mayfair dress model and WAC captain who drove Ike Eisenhower's staff car, had finished a book called Eisenhower Was My Boss. An excerpt from Kay's preface was used in a long blurb for the syndicated newspaper rights: "It is, in a way, a report to women, other women ... I was to work and eat and ride and laugh and drink and play and suffer with the famous commander ... I was to know love, intimately. And I was to know, just as intimately, the unspeakable pain of losing my lover in battle...
Married. Edward John Stanley, 18th Earl of Derby, 30, one of Britain's richest peers, who succeeded to the 463-year-old title on his grandfather's death in February; and Lady Isabel Milles-Lade, 28, Mayfair beauty; in London, at a wedding attended by the royal family...
Vile Bodies orchestrated the gay dance of death of Mayfair's Bright Young Things between the wars. Readers were somewhat taken aback by the ferocity of the ending: the unheroic hero stands in the total blackness of the next war's no-man's-land, waiting to toss his Huxdane-Halley bacterial bomb and infect the enemy with leprosy. Black Mischief was a grim guffaw at the efforts of an Oxford-trained black emperor to apply the notions of liberalism, progress, international uplift and birth control to a country as barbaric as Ethiopia. Scoop, the most rollicking...