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Vintage Sunday Times Magazine December 22nd 1968
The theory and practice of contemporary party giving – Parties are too serious a matter to be left to the host and hostess. Accordingly, we have summoned experts to guide the amateur through the hazards of the season by Nathan Silver. Photos Alan Aldridge
Absent Friends 1968 – People held against their will across the world
Sunday Times Readers letters
Ginger’s Back! – Ginger Rogers – Still dreaming the American Dream by Francis Wyndham. Photographs by Snowdon
An all-American legend will be seen for the first time on the London stage when the new musical Mame opens on February 20 at Drury Lane Ginger Rogers, now 57, has been a star since 1930: a wise-cracking
soubrette of ‘gold digger musicals, Fred Astaire’s classic dancing partner, an Oscar-winner in 1940. Her success story has been attributed to an appeal “as American as apple pie”. Politically conservative, she’s been married five times, doesn’t drink, goes to church and is an accomplished athlete. She’s also an able business woman: her Mame salary, £5000 a week, is a record in the English theatre. The moon shot on our cover, and these studies in silver and gold, show what she’ll look like in Mame. Overleaf, a nostalgic montage of her film career
The Long lost paintings of Winchester Cathedral by Patricia Connor
40 pages. All our magazines are first day issues. This issue is in very good condition for age
