The Eccentric Grand Anarcho-Dandyist Ball 2012.

The Eccentric Grand Anarcho-Dandyist Ball 2012
Published on November 4th, 2012 in http://thechapmagazine.co.uk

The full line-up for the 4th Grand Anarcho-Dandyist Ball on Saturday 1st December has been confirmed. Topping the bill in the grand ballroom will be Albert Ball’s Flying Aces, a Great War-era hot jazz ragtime band featuring silky-voiced siren Patricia Hammond on vocals.

Before Albert Ball’s Flying Aces get you on your toes, you will be rooted to the spot by Kwabana Lindsay, a death-defying tightrope walker whose speciality is playing the fiddle on a tightrope, while wearing full evening dress. You will also be perplexed and entertained by Spacedog, a delightful musical combo featuring theremin, the saw and a series of automata providing extra musical ramblings. A very special surprise guest has also confirmed his or her appearance on the main stage. Your eccentric host in the Grand Ballroom will be none other than Mr. Michael “Atters” Attree, The Chap’s very own “Lip Weasel” correspondent and resident bounder.

In the cocktail bar, your host will be Mr. Viv the Spiv, who will demonstrate his collection of contraband chocolate, nylons and cigarettes, while introducing a real live flea circus at various times throughout the evening. Bets will of course be taken on which flea is likeliest to enter the winning enclosure. Also on offer in both our extensive bars will be a selection of bespoke cocktails, all made with adapted recipes from a bygone age and shaken in vintage cocktail shakers.

In the cocktail bar you may also be instructed on the ancient art of flirting by the Flirtinis, who will do their best to match up the chappiest chaps with the most delectable dames. All in all, it looks set to be the Chap’s most eccentric Ball yet, with a dress code to match: eccentric, esoteric, eclectic, electric.

The 4th Grand Anarcho-Dandyist Ball
8pm-2am
Saturday 1st December 2012
The Bloomsbury Ballroom
Bloomsbury Square
London WC1B 4DA

Tickets: 0207 724 1617
www.ticketweb.co.uk
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Edward Green. English shoemaker since 1890.

 In 1890 EDWARD GREEN began to make hand-crafted shoes for gentleman in a small factory in Northampton. He so gained the reputation for making 'the finest shoes in England for the discerning few'.  This reputation was founded on the skill of his craftsmen and his belief in excellence.  Today the high standards remain with each pair of Edward Green shoes being mostly handmade, using only the finest quality calfskin.  Each pair takes several weeks to make and many skilled craftsmen are involved.

Edward Green is an exclusive English shoemaker founded in 1890. Edward Green is based in Northampton, England. The level of handwork involved in production is very high and only around 250 pairs of shoes are completed a week.
During the 1930s Edward Green was one of the largest manufacturers of officers' boots for the British Army. Their shoes have also been selected by such clients as the Duke of Windsor, Ernest Hemingway and Cole Porter.
Edward Green shoes are available from their own shops in Jermyn Street in London and on the Boulevard St Germain in Paris, as well as leading stores around the world such as Isetan in Japan, Matches in Wimbledon Village, and Saks Fifth Avenue in New York.
In 1890 Edward Green began to make hand-crafted shoes for gentlemen in a small factory in Northampton. He soon gained the reputation for making the finest shoes in England for the discerning few. This reputation was founded on the skill of his craftsmen and his belief in excellence.
The company was sold in 1977 by Green’s nephew to an American leather entrepreneur, Marley Hodgson, but financial problems continued and it was sold for a single British pound to another bespoke shoemaker, John Hlustik, an expert at finishing who is often credited with making brown shoes acceptable to British gentlemen. Upon Hlustik’s unexpected death in 2000, the company was willed to his partner, Hilary Freeman, who continues to elevate the quality of the footwear and strengthen the brand name throughout the world.
Today the high standards remain with each pair of Edward Green shoes being mostly handmade, using only the finest quality calfskin. Each pair takes several weeks to make and many skilled craftsmen are involved.

STAR QUALITY: The World of Noël Coward A major exhibition on the life of the 20 th Century icon.

“Star quality: I don’t know what it is, but I’ve got it.”
                                                                                    Noël Coward
STAR QUALITY: The World of Noël Coward
A major exhibition on the life of the 20
th Century icon
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
March 12th to June 9th, 2012
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center and the Noël
Coward Foundation are delighted to announce that Star Quality: The World of Noël
Coward, a major exhibition focusing on Coward as playwright; composer; director; stage,
screen, and cabaret performer; and, international celebrity, will run March 12
th to June 9th, 2012 in the Donald and Mary Oenslager Gallery at The New York Public Library for
the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
With unparalleled access to the Coward Archives and drawing on public and private
collections in Europe and the US as well as his homes in Switzerland and Jamaica, Star
Quality features photographs, programs, scripts, costumes, personal effects, memorabilia,
and other objects, many previously unseen; as well as audio and video components.
The Lincoln Center presentation of Star Quality is an expanded version of an exhibition
first seen at Ten Chimneys in Wisconsin, and then at London's National Theatre; San
Francisco's Museum of Performance & Design; and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences in Los Angeles.
Star Quality, in its New York incarnation, represents the most comprehensive exhibition
on Noël Coward ever assembled including rare material from the collections of The New
York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
In addition, a series of related public and educational programs will be presented city
wide, in conjunction with the exhibition.
"The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is honored to be hosting this
wonderful exhibit with the Noël Coward Foundation,"  said Jacqueline Z. Davis, Barbara
G. and Lawrence A. Fleischman Executive Director of The New York Public Library for
the Performing Arts. "Whether on stage or screen, Noël Coward was one of the true icons
of the performing arts in the 20th century. I cannot think of a better location to honor Sir
Noël and his legendary career than The New York Public Library for the Performing
Arts."
On the announcement, Alan Brodie, Chair of the Noel Coward Foundation, said, “Noël
Coward had a very special relationship with New York City, which was home to many of his great successes.
  It is fitting that the most comprehensive exhibition ever created
about Coward be hosted by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in the
heart of the city he adored.”
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward is presented by The New York Public Library
for the Performing Arts and the Noël Coward Foundation and in collaboration with the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Museum of Performance &
Design, San Francisco.
Noël Coward is widely known as the creator of a number of stage classics and as the
composer of songs such as “I’ll See You Again,” “Mad About the Boy” and “Mad Dogs
and Englishmen.”  Recent productions of “Present Laughter,” “Blithe Spirit” and “Brief
Encounter” on Broadway together with a number of new publications and recordings
have shown that the work of ‘The Master’ seem particularly appealing to today’s
generation. Later this year, a Pre Broadway production of “Private Lives” starring Kim
Cattrall and directed by Sir Richard Eyre opens in Toronto following a hugely successful
run in London.
Further information will be released later in the year.
http://www.noelcoward.com/exhibition.htm
in http://www.noelcoward.com

Before "Downton Abbey" , Julian Fellowes revisited "White Mischief" through "The Case of the Earl of Erroll" in the series, Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder

Watch the Last episode of "The Case of the Earl of Erroll" bellow ...

Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder is a British five-part docudrama series produced by Touchpaper Television (part of the RDF Media Group), which premièred on BBC One on 16 October 2004

The series presents dramatised accounts of five distinct unsolved murders from British history. Actor and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes appears as a 'historical detective', who guides the audience through the events leading up to the murder, and proposes a solution to each case.
Fellowes presents and narrates each episode, sometimes walking into the action to explain a point. He appears again at the end to conclude the case, putting forward his theory on the identity and motivation of the murderer.
Fellowes co-wrote all five episodes of the series

"The Case of the Earl of Erroll"
Julian Fellowes examines the 1941 murder of the Earl of Erroll in colonial Kenya. With rumours abounding about the Earl’s affair with Diana Delves Broughton, her husband Jock was put on trial for the murder.
The Case of the Earl of Erroll was condemned by Juanita Carberry, whose stepmother was a friend of Diana Delves Broughton, as "littered with inaccuracies". She criticised Fellowes’ pronunciation of Kenyan place names, and challenged his assertion that Delves Broughton had been present during the shooting of Lord Erroll. Fellowes responded: "I am sure she’s right when she says I mispronounced place names – it was the first time I had been in the country." He added: "As for Diana being at the scene, I have a source whom I believe is equally as sturdy as Juanita...she asked me never to reveal her identity.

Writer's TV murder 'investigation' strewn with errors, says witness
Last updated at 10:01 10 January 2006 in Mail online

Oscar-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes - off to New York today to collect yet another glittering showbusiness prize - is famously a stickler for facts. Everything in his historical dramas and TV documentaries is researched down to the finest detail.
His well-received BBC docu-drama of the wartime murder in Kenya of the dissolute, womanising Earl of Erroll - a crime which inspired the 1987 film White Mischief - was a masterclass of his thoroughness. Or so it seemed.
For Fellowes' hour-long programme - broadcast a fortnight ago - did not go down well with the last surviving witness to the real-life shenanigans of Kenya's louche Happy Valley set: Twice-married Juanita Carberry, 80.
Her stepmother June was a close friend of Lord Erroll's lover Diana Delves Broughton - the bed-hopping scarlet woman whose baronet husband Jock was acquitted of the murder.
Juanita, who lives in Chelsea, was 15 at the time and says Jock confessed to her while on the run from the police shortly afterwards - a fact she guarded for decades and which saved him from the gallows. It gave her a unique ringside seat at one of the most notorious crimes of passion in the era of empire.
"This programme was littered with inaccuracies and I have written to the Director General of the BBC to complain," she tells me.
"I am fed up with all these people thinking they know best what happened." Her biggest gripe is Fellowes' assertion that Lady Delves Broughton was wounded during the shooting of Lord Erroll, a "complete invention", insists Juanita. "Diana was at home with my stepmother at the time," she says. "I had lunch at her house the very same day and, believe me, she had not been shot.
"I can't understand why Fellowes didn't take the trouble to find out the facts - I would have been happy to talk to him."
Juanita adds: "Despite posing as an old Kenya hand, Fellowes repeatedly mispronounced place names. The film also made out that my father John was a wife-beater. Although he had many faults, in 17 years I never once saw him raise his hand to my stepmother."
Over to Fellowes: "I am sure she's right when she says I mispronounced place names - it was the first time I had been in the country and I hope I never gave the impression I was an old Kenya hand. She may well be right that Carberry was not a wife-beater - that was down to BBC researchers, not me.
"But as for Diana being at the scene, I have a source whom I believe is equally as sturdy as Juanita. Sorry, but she asked me never to reveal her identity.

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