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Complications are plentiful in the romance when Dolores Casanova, vamp of Spain, comes on the stage, leading Rockwell's valet, Jimmy Walker, a merry tango. L. W. Grossman 1G.B, who wrote the music for last year's show and portrayed Nooky in the "Fool-for Scandal,", furnishes a large share of the comedy as Jimmie Walker. Spanish girls still have a thing or two to learn from C. R. Frazier '27, in the part of Dolores Casanova...
Ushers with tall combs and white mantillas stole back up the aisles as the house lights faded out. The orchestra blared some opening bars, then hushed to a faintly drumming vamp. Into a pool of amber light on the empty stage, stepped a small woman with hair of jet, a stocky little figure in velvet flounces, with a broad, flat face of extraordinary mobility. Her black eyes grew slowly wider and deeper as a spattering storm of applause burst upon her, swelled and rumbled with calls of "Brava! Brava!" which took five minutes to blow over...
...such antics on the part of the Prince of Wales as you describe in your issue of Nov. 2. No decent young man dresses himself up in girl's clothes and appears in a farce called The Bathroom Door. There are enough scatter-brained girls who call themselves " vamps" without the Prince making a "Royal Vamp" of himself. I visited England last year and want to say that a great many people in London know him for what he is. Too many Americans think he is a sweet, babyfaced, "innocent," "embarrassed" young man ! That is perfect nonsense, and anyone...
...make matters worse, the photograph was obviously "posed" to the satisfaction of "the Royal Vamp," who is rumored to have impenitently "countenanced" its release by one of his suite...
...This," when inspected, appeared superficially to be only a photograph of a svelt and alluring "redheaded vamp." Alas, her shoulders were a thought too broad, her hips a shade too neat! She was none other than Edward of Wales, snapped en costume while appearing in The Bathroom Door, a farce produced aboard the cruiser Repulse just before she docked at Portsmouth (TIME, Oct. 26) and returned the Prince from his South American tour...