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...Unhappy were the King & Mrs. Simpson when she began to receive last week anonymous notes postmarked in London's fashionable Mayfair and threatening her life. Many were written in such cultivated terms as to suggest that some of the poison-penpushers may very well be peeresses or at least English gentlemen with a public school background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Unprivate Lives (Cont'd) | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

Sample: "Beware, the fate of all Kings' mistresses will soon be yours!" This was written on an expensive letter card, Mayfair-postmarked, and three days later Mrs. Simpson received an identical card in the same typewriting which read: "Had you been living 200 years ago, means would have been found to rid the country of you. but no one seems to possess the courage required to order you back to the U. S. A. where marriage is a mockery, so it has fallen to my lot as a patriot to kill you. This is a solemn warning that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Unprivate Lives (Cont'd) | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...Mitzi Mayfair, long a favorite with Harvard men, thinks the new parietal rule is "all right". When questioned, she expressed surprise to learn that young ladles are ever permitted in the dormitories. Rather non-committal, all she said on that particular subject was "Girls ought never to be allowed in a boy's room without a chaperon. If a couple want to be alone . . . well . . . there's a time and place for everything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mitzi Mayfair, Bert Lahr Disregard Student Poll, Support Parietal Ruling | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...Lahr, along with Miss Mayfair, Reginald Gardiner, and Beatrice Lillie and the stars of the recent "The Show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mitzi Mayfair, Bert Lahr Disregard Student Poll, Support Parietal Ruling | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...reporter interviewed Miss Mayfair in her dressing room as she was preparing for her next act, "but I've spent most of my life in St. Louis, I guess I'm just a natural dancer, for I've had rhythm ever since I can remember, and I've never taken a lesson in my life. We lived next door to a theatre manager, and he put me in a "Kid act" at the tender ago of 11. Gus Edwards saw me there, signed me up, and I've been on the stage ever since. I was in the last "Follies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mitzi Mayfair, Bert Lahr Disregard Student Poll, Support Parietal Ruling | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

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