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Queen Mary has not yet dined with the King and Mrs. Simpson, but the Prime Minister and Mrs. Stanley Baldwin and Colonel and Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh have. In those circumstances, socialite Britons assumed and freely said last week in Mayfair that, as in the case of Ethiopia, British public opinion is now in course of a great change, and soon the comings and goings of Mrs. Simpson will be a popular topic in the popular press...
...French Casino she appears with nothing but a stuffed swan's neck in front of her, dispenses with even that in her finale. Theatrically indignant at her surroundings last week, she declared: "Imagine me dancing in a tent! I came here thinking it was the Mayfair Casino; honestly I feel wicked as hell. I've never appeared this nude before, and my family don't know what to think." For Cleveland's 100-day combination of culture & carnival 1,000,000 tickets at 50? each have been sold in advance. Well aware that...
...sons so much as the Russian Ballet's performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherezade, an Arabian Nights fantasy in which a Sultana and all her co-wives betray their Sultan on the stage with Negro slaves, afterward are butchered by the Sultan's soldiers. Although cultivated Mayfair and Manhattan consider Scheherezade merely esthetic, the Sheik & Sons watched it with savage joy, their nostrils quivering and eyes bugging as the Negro slaves and fair wives heaved. "The Sheik never mentions his own wives to unbelievers," confided a member of His Highness' suite. "To them he speaks...
Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Maud Alice, Lady Cunard, birdlike blonde widow of fox-hunting Sir Bache Cunard. The daughter of the late E. F. Burke of New York and known to Mayfair as '"Emerald," Lady Cunard is the mother of exotic Nancy Cunard, whose fondness for Negroes as dancing partners has caused many a raised eyebrow in London and New York...
...humble subject of His Majesty named T. H. L. Hony of Fowey in Cornwall was creating a well-bred little Mayfair stir last week with his "discovery" that King Edward VIII, his brothers and King George V were all born on Saturday...