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They wrote it this week: A glamorous star is caught naked with a slop-pail
Extracts from diaries and letters written between June 22 and June 28
June 23
1924, London
We had a quiet and pleasant dinner and wandered down by way of many pubs to the Embankment and back in the same manner to the Cafe Royal. Soon we were joined by the foul Tasha Gielgud and in her company a pert young woman dressed almost wholly as a man. They had many drinks with us and attracted a great deal of attention. We managed in the end to get rid of them only by leaving the restaurant ourselves and putting them to lesbianise in a taxi. And so home...
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