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Last week Mr. Churchill tried the trick of unleashing upon Leader Baldwin a cheeky and supercilious young man called "that pup!" in Mayfair where he used to work as a gossip-gatherer for William Randolph Hearst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parasites, Mirth, Pup | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

...Stanley, a successful ex-stockbroker, was made Minister of Labor last year brands National Government a sham. To Conservatives nothing seems more right and proper. They assume that Oliver Stanley is briskly, but not too briskly, on his way to becoming Prime Minister.* Last week he stumbled, and swank Mayfair was pained. In Sheffield fierce riots broke out, all because the new Minister of Labor was not quite clicking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dole Rout | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

...successful murder, one attempted, two court trials, and headlines, headlines--they call it "White Lies." Walter Connally has been fraudulently (I hope) inveigled into this production of which Columbia should be ashamed. But go: Whiting and Mayfair will help make you forget the provinces...

Author: By P. A. U., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/9/1935 | See Source »

...radio fans who visited Keith's this week to have a look at Phil Baker and his stooges were overpowered when presented with real talent such as Jack Whiting and Mitzi Mayfair. After appearing with Baker in the recent "Calling All Stars," they have accompanied him on his vaudeville tour. Herein lies a chance for Harvard men who miss their Broadway to get just a touch of it. But it's only a fleeting glimpse. Jack Whiting exhibits his handsome blond profile in putting across, as only he can, a few of the songs from his stage successes. And buxom...

Author: By P. A. U., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/9/1935 | See Source »

Thirty-six-year-old C. Bersford Marshall is an architect with a reputation for doing swank Mayfair apartments in the modern taste. In his meteoric career Architect Marshall has designed only four houses. Last week the Royal Warrant Holders' Association commissioned him to do his fifth house as a jubilee present for King George. Reminded that His Majesty is in possession of a score of palaces and castles plus houses galore, the Royal Warrant Holders' somewhat foggy spokesman conjectured that George V will probably give the house, located at Burhill in Surrey, to "some subject who has performed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: By Royal Warrant | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

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