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...Duke of Windsor). In Lillibet's case Grandma has modernized her idea of fun to include such excursions as that of last week, when the Princess and a party of friends dined & wined at the Bagatelle, one of Mayfair's toniest nightspots, till past midnight, listened to a red-haired Russian sing Englishmen Never Make Love by Day, danced rumbas and tangos till the band went home. Elizabeth's escort was an old family friend, married, bespectacled Charles Villiers (pronounced Villers), a former colonel in the Grenadier Guards...
Gangster Nodiard finds the answer to his dreams at a party of young Mayfair married couples. These British bright-young-things meet weekly for elaborate orgies of free love. After attending one of these, Nodiard scuttles back to Paris to initiate his gang. The British see their orgies as strictly nonpolitical pleasures. But to the Nodiard gang "our love meetings will be our Holy of Holies...
...worn with a black halo hat trailing a waist-length floating black lace scarf. Then there was an evening gown-33 yards of chiffon shading from deep apricot to pale oyster. At these and 46 other fripperies, in the ballroom of the West End's swank Mayfair Hotel, women buyers gasped with pent-up pleasure. It was London's first "non-austerity" style show in six years...
Died. George Trumper, 70, hairdresser to the last three British Kings, proprietor of the topflight tonsorial Mayfair Shop on Curzon Street; in London. Barber Trumper, black razor case in hand, needed no special pass to enter Buckingham Palace regularly trimmed the present King's locks every ten days...
...Jeep bounces Carole Landis, Kay Francis, Martha Raye and Mitzi Mayfair through a catch-as-catch-can cineversion of Miss Landis' book (and Satevepost articles) of the same title, reporting their experiences as USO entertainers. In the book, only Miss Landis got married. In the picture, Martha Raye, the feminists' Joe E. Brown, practically ingests the comic sergeant (Phil Silvers) who chauffeurs their jeep. Mitzi Mayfair snuggles up to a uniformed ex-vaudeville partner (Dick Haymes, who is Fox's threat to Frank Sinatra, and sings like melting vanilla ice cream). Kay Francis plays handles with...