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...almost like the good old days again, when everybody but the poor was rich, when King George V sat respectably on his throne, and his dashing son the Prince of Wales (now Duke of Windsor) toppled off horses from Aldershot to Dockenfield. Mayfair was afire with the glitter of bright lights, seductive scents hung heavy on the air, and the stillness of spring nights was shattered by the popping of champagne corks. Despite repeated government warnings to tighten all belts, London last week was in the giddy midst of the most extravagant social season since 1938. "The British upper class...
...formal arrangements to shed their shoes and dance in the streets to the blaring music of motorcar radios. A prominent guest at many of the parties was the 20-year-old Duke of Kent, Queen Elizabeth's first cousin and the seventh in line to Britain's throne. Wherever young Kent went-and his evenings were invariably full-the action was brisk. One party he attended was held on a yacht and ended only when sea scouts and river police turned up to fish two debonair young Guards officers out of the muddy waters of the Thames. Another...
...wildest shoot currently burgeoning from the royal family tree, accident-prone Edward, Duke of Kent, 20, seventh in line for the throne of England, was afflicted by spring fever on a madcap evening in London aboard a pleasure boat moored in the Thames. When the revelry dulled, two fully clad male wassailers, inspired by ?5 wagers, went over the side into the noisome drink. As the vessel was cut loose from its moorings, the other guests, led by the huzzahing duke, chucked hats, umbrellas, dead champagne bottles, blossoms and most of the boat's lifebelts to the dunked...
...Birthday of the Infanta, by Ron Nelson, 29, graduate student at Rochester's Eastman School of Music, and composer of promotional-film sound tracks. Following Oscar Wilde's story, a dwarf falls in love with a Spanish princess and persuades her to set up her throne in the forest. The scheme is frustrated by the captain of the guard, and tragedy closes in. The music reminded listeners of both Puccini and Menotti, and suggested that Birthday will have many happy returns...
...Elephant Ride. All around them, saffron-robed Brahman priests bustled hither and thither, frequently consulting notebooks to get the complex ritual straight. An occasional argument in stage whispers broke out and was quickly hushed. After the royal couple mounted the throne-at exactly the auspicious moment of 10:43 a-m-the nead Priest, moving carefully so as not to knock off the young King's glasses, placed upon the monarch's head a peaked helmet adorned with bird-of-paradise feathers* and some $2,000,000 worth of precious gems...