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...eight bridesmaids: dumpling Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands, placid last week amid spiteful Mayfair gossip that she tried in vain for Prince George last summer...
...which brought them long and loud applause. The deep voice of Gertrude Niessen is well known to radio listeners, but her exceedingly attractive person should, we hope, keep her occupied in a more visual form of work. Miss Patricia Bowman dances very prettily and by way of contrast, Mitzi Mayfair contributes a good bit of syncopated stepping with the aid of Jack Whiting, to whom the ballads of the show are entrusted. Everett Marshall's excellent baritone deserved better means of expression than the usual tear-jerker about the down-and-outer who stresses the point that his dejected head...
President-elect of IHA is Sir Francis Towle (pronounced Toll), managing director of Gordon Hotels, Ltd. which owns, among others, London's Mayfair, Metropole and Grosvenor. His brother Arthur Edward, also in Manhattan last week, runs the biggest hotel chain outside the U. S., a string of smaller places the length & breadth of the British Isles. On the side he directs the dining-car, restaurant and hotel division of London, Midland & Scottish...
With no faintest hint of scandal, the Marquess and Marchioness of Londonderry are now said to have "seduced" Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. It is they who enticed the silver-haired Scot out of dingy surroundings in which he moved even three years ago, launched him in Mayfair's glittering swim...
Since Lady Helen is not of royal blood Prince Juan, under the strict Bourbon rules of the Spanish Royal House, could not marry her without first putting aside his rights to the Throne. In Mayfair the Londonderrys have long been supposed to be the most potent partisans in Britain of a Spanish restoration. Would they let their daughter make a marriage which would wipe out the last real pretender to Spain's Throne...