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...Stylist’s assistants, Ella Bacon and Naomi Phillips. Production, Parent. Retouching, Hand of God. Special thanks to Spring Studios...
...And the body of her model, Ella Naper, is beheld from behind. Never mind the angle, the idea — spirited, audacious, radiant, bravely accomplished — is indeed the face of Britain....
...Previously I knew nothing of JH Ingraham’s The Beautiful Cigar Girl or Frank Danby’s Dr Phillips: A Maida Vale Idyll. Each sounds banal to the point of being surreal....
...Noël Coward would make me too self-conscious; Cole Porter’s rhymes are too good not to distract; the grating intelligence of Sondheim would throw me off; Ella Fitzgerald was too lustrous …but Chet Baker’...
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