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...life he was above all a gourmet; the symbol of the pleasures of life; dictator of modes; regulating all other ways of life to the way of enjoyment, and living to enjoy while living; beloved by the grand mondc of the Continent; inspiration of the chefs of the Savoy Hotel in creating the justly famous poulard Edward...
...every potentate in London last week surpassed George V. But there was the usual tendency in the English Press to outfable the fabulous. That potentate of potentates, His Highness the Maharaja of Patiala, Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes, was assumed to have taken a "whole floor" at the Savoy Hotel, assumed to be out shopping for "his sartorial foible. British underpants of a particular weave costing ?200 per pair," assumed to have "brought from India his special curry cook who takes twelve hours to prepare that dish," assumed to spend "three and a half hours every morning curling...
...pounds Sterling. I left my curry cook in Paris to supervise the diet of the Maharanee who is ill. I don't insist that every article of leather be removed from any room I occupy. Most of my entourage are staying in Paris. I am here at the Savoy in two small suites-and having a jolly good time...
That citadel of vested interest, the United Kingdom Guild of Bartenders, urged last week that there be "no plagiarism'' of the "officially registered" Royal Jubilee Cocktail and Silver Jubilee Cocktail invented respectively by Savoy Hotel's Harry Craddock and Cafe Royal's Billy Tarling...
...Barrie's father, a King's Counsel named Jenkin, is a barrister in Hongkong where she was born. Her mother christened her Wendy. She naturally picked Barrie when she needed a stage name. She went to school in Switzerland and was having lunch in London's Savoy Grill with a friend when Alexander Korda saw her, offered her a screen test. Watching her shrewdly with his hat over his eyes and a cigar in his mouth, Korda tactfully taught her how to act. She played the part of Jane Seymour, Henry the VIII's third wife...