[5.7.05][Andrew Stevens] WHO'S THE DANDY? Four-Eyed Bitch reliably reports that a new issue of former 3:AM co-editor Jude Rogers and Sarah Records svengali Matt Haynes' London peculiar Smoke is about to go on sale. The more sharper-eyed might also notice that among the excerpts from issue six is 'Oxford Street's Rive Gauche' by Julian MacLaren-Ross biographer Paul Willetts:
"If you'd walked into the saloon bar at the rear of the Wheatsheaf any evening between 1943 and 1952, you would inevitably have found the handsome Maclaren-Ross ensconced in his favourite spot. Dressed in a pale suit, an astrakhan-collared coat and American aviator-style sunglasses, the knob of his malacca cane in one hand, a cigarette-holder in the other, he'd be standing at the crowded bar regaling a flock of hangers-on with some deadpan monologue."
It's good to see some much-needed Sohemian values in Smoke's pages. (Read 3:AM's interview with Matt Haynes and Jude Rogers of Smokehere.) [permalink]
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