it was grand to find Norman Hartnels impressive dress house in Bruton Street just as imposing as ever when I paid a call to-day. There 'were just as many flowers, just as many mirrors, and the same expensive perfume wafting down the green-carpeted stairs. Upstairs, tiny blonde Claire Luce (star of "Mice and Men" and of a dozen successful revues) was trying to choose between bales and bales of vivid scarlet fabrics; as bright as the incongruous poster thumb-tacked on the Hartnell green walls which read:—
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.