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...much as ?30 for an evening's work. In the midst of the merriment, many a Londoner was cast into the dumps at news that what might well have been the biggest and best party of all was canceled. It was to have been given by irrepressible Norah Docker, the blonde and lively wife of Daimler's Board Chairman Sir Bernard Docker, in honor of her 50th birthday...
Somewhere in the ruckus. Britain's Randolph Churchill picked a fight with his wealthy countrywoman, Lady Docker, and screamed aloud: "I didn't come here to meet vulgar people like the Kellys." A learned representative of the French Academy, Europe's high temple of culture, launched a formal complaint when Monaco's Prince refused to permit the reading of an ode especially written for the occasion by Academician Jean Cocteau, on the grounds that it was too effusive. Highballing away the nights and days in their hotel suites just as though they were in the good...
...same confident air, he turned to finance. In three years he established three publishing firms, and an investment company. He had no trouble raising money. Was he not the son of Major Reginald Baker, well known as a cinema magnate and managing director of Baling Studios? Wealthy Sir Bernard Docker and Sir John Mann contributed financial backing, Viscount Astor and Major Henry Legge-Bourke, M.P., were glad to serve on his board of directors. Soon Peter had 18 companies, ranging from Edinburgh to London...
...last year banks began to balk. When they did, Peter suddenly produced "bills of exchange'' (drafts) apparently guaranteed, by such sterling-solid men as Docker and Mann. When one bank refused to give him further loans, he would "cash" another bill of exchange with another bank and repay the loan at the first. Last spring his respectable backers had enough. They resigned from the boards, refused him further financing. In June, his companies crashing around him, Peter abruptly put himself into a private sanatorium where no visitors were allowed. But one visitor got through anyway: Chief Detective Superintendent...
...Schwarz's straightforward earnestness as the temptor who offered Thomas the greatest gift of all--martyrdom--is skillfully handled, while Andre Gregory is delightfully whimsical as he offers Becket the joys of past dissipations. As the two temptors who offer various forms of temporal power, Louis Begley and John Docker are only fair. Begley over-acts to the point of appearing a scheming spy, and Docker's offer of a coalition between bishop and barons seems too gruff and intense. All four share the same fault in the last act speeches, when the knights suddenly abandon their roles of drunken...