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...Tory party to replace him except Viscount Curzon. Since Curzon was in the House of Lords (and therefore unable to face the growing Labor opposition in the House of Commons), the prime ministry went to Baldwin. "But," cried out Curzon, "[Baldwin] is a man ... of the utmost insignificance!" A Mayfair hostess asked: "Is the new Prime Minister what you would call an educated...
...Luxembourg's Prince Jean, whose playful guests turned the soda siphons on each other. Also present, and splashed, was Princess Thereza d'Orléans e Bragança, youngest sister of a claimant to Brazil's long extinct throne and of the Comtesse de Paris. Mayfair gossips said that 28-year-old, moderately good looking, very rich Thereza had been picked for Michael's queen by Michael's experienced, appreciative papa, ex-King Carol. Thereza said there was no truth in the rumors...
...Maud Gonne's talents and beauty were not for the drawing rooms of Dublin and the salons of Mayfair. One midwinter night, after a fashionable ball in Ireland's midcountry, Maud had seen an Irish peasant woman and her children flung out of their home by a landlord. Her gay companions shuddered and forgot. But from that time on, Maud Gonne devoted her life to Ireland's independence...
...bores me," pouted a languid lady of Mayfair. "If it were somebody else's wedding, maybe I'd be as excited as the Americans seem to be. But it's the Royal Family and it bores me." A London cook and waitress politely declined a proffered holiday to celebrate the great event. "We'll go if you think we should, Madam," they told their American mistress. There were other Britons as apathetic, and some were downright resentful at the gushers of news concerning the wedding...
Success in burglary, as in other fields of human endeavor, depends on keen awareness of changing values. In London's Mayfair last week, a promising burglar broke into the apartment of Adman Patrick Dolan and took...