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Beatrice Lillie swims enchantingly over the sea of heads in an illuminated crescent, advising the gaping spectators to take a balloon some afternoon and go to the moon. Mitzi Mayfair displays her pretty pertness in many guady vehicles, but perhaps to best advantage in the role of a little old lavender lady, who is pleasantly ruffled by Gil Lamb, the man with the ludicrously disjointed skeleton. Bert Lahr is everything comical from the outdoor man who rhapsodizes on the uses of wood, to the juggler of jazz who squeezes all the latest kinder-gartenish pranks in noise into one amazing...
...model house in Surrey. The United Press learned this week that King Edward has offered this house, which has never been occupied, to Mrs. Simpson in case she would like to use it as her country place. Dignitaries received by His Majesty last week spread in restricted Mayfair circles an impression that the King, after he is crowned in May 1937, will set out on a tour of the Empire extending clear around the calendar to spring of 1938. This would include a Coronation Durbar at New Delhi in the winter of 1937-38, and this week officials in Whitehall...
...about 22. And His Majesty is undoubtedly most popular with millions of the British Lower Classes. Today there is probably not a person of this class who does not love King Edward, in the sense that "the Englishman is taught to love his King as a friend." Meanwhile, in Mayfair there is a small, swift, hard-drinking clique who are the King's only real friends. Most of these people seem "American" to the circles in which Queen Mary and Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin respectively move - and to these worthies "American" is a revolting adjective. The worst feature...
Floor shows . . . . Where are we going after the Dartmouth game . . . ? Theatrical, Crescent, or Towne--Levaggi, or Mayfair, or Merry Go Round...
Last June Germany's round-faced and cheerful Ambassador-at-Large Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, onetime salesman of "German Champagne," blandly appeared in London and showed around the smart salons of Mayfair what he said was a list of British subjects any one of whom Adolf Hitler would prefer to the present British Ambassador at Berlin, Sir Eric Phipps. Herr von Ribbentrop did not deny that he himself was the Realm-leader's choice to succeed as German Ambassador to the Court of St. James the distinguished, old-school Dr. Leopold von Hoesch who died in April...