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...Long-term residents who rented suites for astonishing sums included Cole Porter (whose piano is still in the hotel), mobster Bugsy Siegel, Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra (he rented Porter’s old suite in...
...Arrive by train or tube and you make the journey back in time, stepping from the glass opulence of the 21st-century station down a wooden alley to a simpler age of leather luggage, flags and porters....
...On other occasions, moving jets of steam beneath the platform suggest the passage of the trains watched by young Roberta, Peter and Phyllis....
...Bobbie (Roberta), Phyllis and Peter are at the start the children of well-heeled Edwardian burghers....
...With Magnetic Fields and other ensembles, Stephen Merritt has built a reputation as a kind of postmodern Cole Porter. Here, the lyrics can be overly faux-naif....
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