"We All Wear The Green Carnation": Nightlife and Entertainment

"We All Wear the Green Carnation" from Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet, Act 3, Scene 1. Courtesy of British Pathé.

My dear boy, on thirty-five dollars a week I am living at a hotel which is luxurious and delightful; I see one or two plays (from the upper balcony, it is true, but I don't have to smell the actors to appreciate the play); I dine with several different people each week, choosing those who I feel most like talking at; I visit those ultra ultra spots where drinks cost a dollar each (though I get only one or two) and the like of which is nowhere else in this unfair country. You would have a delightful time here with me.

…You would be stimulated anew by contact with this strange and vital city. It remains elixir to me. It is inexhaustible.

Notes

Back to Leo Adams: A Gay Life in Letters, 1928–1952

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