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...restaurants and painfully hip boutiques. Nearby Kemptown, a gay quarter, offers a similar mix but with hot pink accents. Meanwhile, gourmands will make for the award-winning Terre ? Terre, tel: (44-1273) 729051, reputed to be the best vegetarian restaurant in Britain, or the superlative French restaurant, One Paston Place, tel: (44-1273) 606960. And if you can't face catching the last train back to London, you have an array of hotels to choose from. Foremost among these is celebrity-favorite the Pelirocco, tel: (44-1273) 327055?a boutique property where every room is decorated like a debauched...
...LORD BYRON"-Edifed by George Paston & Peter Quennell-Scribner...
...George Paston" (Emily Symonds, author of At John Murray's) began to edit these unpublished letters before her death. The editing was completed by Biographer Peter Quennell (Byron: The Years of Fame: The Private Letters of Princess Lieuen). Missing from the collection are any letters from Byron's half sister and mistress, Augusta Leigh, Lady Melbourne (see above) or Annabella Milbanke (Lady Byron). It adds little that the nosey world does not already know about the Byron legend, but it touches up some less known amusing episodes. Sample...
...silk, painted red. In London, dead silver foxes have long been smartly worn around the neck. Recently Mrs. F. P. Long (Philadelphia) appeared in Hyde Park on a Sunday morning parade with a silver fox docilely scampering beside her on a leash. On a nearby street Lady Mary Paston was seen leashed to a small African tree bear...
...Henry Jewett players have added a new drama to their already long repertory. This time they are producing George Paston's "Nobody's Daughter" at the Copley Theatre, for what is practically its initial introduction to American audiences. George Paston, whose real name, by the way, is Emily Morse Symonds, has become familiar to Boston theatre-goers through "Clothes and the Woman" which was presented at the Copley Theatre a year ago last August...