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Heading the list of entertainers were Ramona and Gertrude Niesen, currently featured at the Brunswick Casino and the Mayfair respectively. Stamping feet and clanging bottles demanded several encores of both...
...this point Miss Niesen went to dress for her numbers and, singing to a packed audience, she nearly brought down the Mayfair's mirrored pillars with her throaty rendition of "Heat Wave" and "St. Louis Blues...
...chirpy trans-Channel telephone conversation with a Mayfair friend last week, "Kitty," Baroness Rothschild observed of the Duke of Windsor: "As far as I'm concerned, anyone can have him anytime...
Then Edward, his friend and original benefactor, came to the Throne. Promptly swank Mayfair's slick-papered smartchart bi-weekly Leisure bought and ran in serial installments excerpts from his forthcoming biography, "The New King . . . Exclusive . . . Intimate Life Study ... by Hector Bolitho." The series ran for four months. Last week just about the biggest biographic surprise Mayfair has had came when a few people bought what they casually supposed was only the binding up in book form of the Leisure sketches, a friendly series of bi-weekly pieces about Edward VIII seemingly penned in deepest, sincerest admiration...
...opinion a vital necessity!" To this, British Reds replied by chalking the street in front of the German Embassy in huge letters: "RIBBENTROP MUST GO!" He not only did not go but soon moved in the set of Mrs. Ernest Simpson and King Edward to an extent which started Mayfair wondering and whispering about whether His Majesty's lady could possibly be a "German agent." In the House of Commons excitable William Gallacher, then as now the sole Communist M. P. (see p. 23), stormed: "[The Ambassador] comes with his hands red with murder!" apropos the execution in Germany...