
Elvira Barney arriving at her parents house at 6 Belgrave Square, 7th July 1932 Visiting England apparently on a whim and a year before she made her first film late in 1925, a seventeen year-old Louise Brooks became a dancer at the Cafe de Paris in Coventry Street and it was here that she reputedly became the first person to dance the Charleston in London. The Piccadilly nightclub had quickly become the place to be seen when it had opened in December 1924, not least because the Prince of Wales soon became a regular visitor. [...]