WHERE LONDON SCORES
London is now universally recognised us the centre of tho world for social gatherings. "Paris has entirely lost that position, and except for ordinary tourists who want to see tho sights, is as a social centre dead. The French have no Court,- they have no king or emperor; thore 'is no aristocracy in evidence; there is no social movement; and there is no ceremony," says an English writer. '' Without a certaiu amount of ceremony, which is lacking in Paris, you cannot get society together. I see that our French friends are going to,make a great effort to revive it, by means of fetes, and so on, but at present it does not exist. Two or three hotels in' London are the only places in tho world where you can now see flvo hundred or a thousand people ■in evening dress in the restaurant. One of the London groups of hotels is probably the only group of first-class hotels in the world which earned and paid a dividond on its ordinary shares for 1933."
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 53, 31 August 1934, Page 16
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176WHERE LONDON SCORES Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 53, 31 August 1934, Page 16
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