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...pacify insistent newsmen, they agreed to meet a few top correspondents at a small Mayfair cocktail party. The Duke, dressed in a mousy lounge suit and striped tie, babbled amiably about Britain's coal problem, the difficulties of Continental postwar life. The slim, charming Duchess looked closer to 35 than 50. She wore a handsome but unobtrusive red woolen suit with demure earrings and lapel brooch, made a point of chatting with each guest. Correspondents got the impression that the Windsors wanted a quiet and friendly press because the Duke was job-hunting and wanted no reminders...
...Gladstone bag, removed a brown leather jewel case. From a small leather box on the Duke's bedside table, he plucked a valuable watch. Two hundred yards away, he stopped, picked through the jewel case, discarded some inexpensive hatpins. Then he drove away. According to the Duchess, he had stolen every jewel she owned except those she had on. The loss: (Windsor's estimate...
...those few clear facts had been culled out of the mad confusion of the world press. In London, the Daily Mail fell overboard, estimated the value of the loot at $2 million. U.S. papers wildly reported that two socialite women were under suspicion, and that the Duchess had stored part of her million-dollar collection in a safe-deposit vault. The Duchess regretfully denied that one: ". . . It was stupid. I've been kicking myself all over the place." The Duchess was asked to describe the basis on which she selected jewels to match her costumes. She said: "A fool...
Although the chic Duchess was calm, the proud, pathetic little Duke was blazing mad. His never-good chance of a Government job (he wanted the Governor Generalship of Australia) had been crushed between the rollers of Fleet Street's presses...
Last week's revival was saved by its dash, Cecil Beaton leading the way with his gaudily handsome sets and wonderful costumes. Not all the cast could keep up with him, but Estelle Winwood got robust comedy out of the gossipy Duchess of Berwick, and England's lovely Penelope Ward got style, presence, even a sort of believableness into the proud, priggish young Lady Windermere...