“... the lead role, a set design by Norman Bel Geddes, and luminaries such as Arthur Rubenstein, Cole Porter, Ivor Novello, Dorothy Parker and Mrs Vincent Astor in attendance on opening night. It closed after a few snaggle-toothed performances. In Jacob Slovak (1923), the one de Acosta play to have some success (John Gielgud ...”

“... try there,’ said the fat man. Midgley sat on. ‘Hello,’ said the young man brightly. ‘Dorothy? You’re a grandma.’ He looked at Midgley while he was talking, but without seeing him. ‘A grandma,’ he shouted. ‘Yes!’ There was a pause. ‘Guess,’ said the young man and listened. ‘No,’ he said. ‘Girl. Seven and a half ...”

“... hope that his body will be laid to rest in his native soil.’ Yeats himself had written to Dorothy Wellesley five months before his death: ‘I write my poems for the Irish people, but I am damned if I will have them at my funeral. A Dublin funeral is something between a public demonstration & a private picnic.’On returning to London from ...”