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Chapter 1, pp. 5 - 12

p 5 - Edinburgh Festival = a major festival of arts and the Edinburgh Tattoo held in Edinburgh, Scotland each August  since 1948.

p 5 - répétiteur = someone who drills someone in study

p 5 - Balenciaga = item created by Cristòbal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer with a business in Paris in 1937 to 1968.  He created the 'baby doll look'.

p 5 - Tottenham Court Road = a street in central London.   Tottenham Court is a northward continuation of Charing Cross Road, and joins onto Oxford Street at Oxford Circus.  An accent from there would be considered 'common' by the snobbish.

p. 6 - Tam o' Shanter = a poem in Scots dialect by Robert Burns (1759-1896).  It has 224 lines and begins:
            When chapman billies leave the street,
            And frouthy neebors neebors meet....

p. 6 - Thalberg = a fictional conductor from Munich.    His name is probably taken from that of German /composer Sigismond Thalberg (1812-1871).

p. 6 - Bonwit Teller = A Fifth Avenue (New York) retailer which at its height had stores in major American cities 1902 to 2000.  It was the first U.S. retailer to import designer clothing from Europe.

p. 6 - Hush Puppies = a brand of soft-soled suede shoes.

p. 6 - Nevada = a state in the U.S. south-west.

p. 7 - Talloires = a town in France, Rhône Alps, Haute-Savoie.  They have an annual festival.

p. 7 - Morris wallpaper = Wallpaper designed by William Morris (1834-1896), founder of the Arts and Crafts movement associated with the Pre-Raphaelite artists.  He frequently used motifs of birds, flowers and plants.

p. 7 - Rose Street, Edinburgh = a street in central Edinburgh, parallel to Princes Street, famous for restaurants, pubs, hotels, cafés and boutiques.  Reserved for pedestrians.  You can see a picture of it here.

p. 8 - electric cooker = in American English, stove.

p. 8 - ebonized = stained black in imitation of ebony

p. 8 - lurex = metallic yarn or thread

p. 9 - wardrobe = a large piece of furniture used to store clothing in the U.K.

p. 10 - coloratura = a soprano with a light agile voice specializing in elaborate embellishments in vocal music.

p. 10 - soprano = a person with the highest singing voice of women or boys.

p 11 - Blackheath = a village in SE London.

p. ? - Andrew Sinclair - A fictional fashion designer, probably based on Anthony Sinclair, who designed James Bond's clothes in the Bond movies.

p. 18 - Squiffed  = intoxicated.  Like any Dunnett hero, if Johnson appears drunk, he probably isn’t.

Rum = Island in the Inner Hebrides off the West Coast of Scotland.  See map. (insert link https://www.angelfire.com/zine/azurite/scotland.html)

Mallaig = A port town on the west coast of Scotland, 45 miles NE of Fort William.

p. 19 - Rallentandos  = a musical passage that becomes slower

p. 19 - The Alcina = an opera written by Handel in 1735, based on Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso.   Alcina is the heroine.

Koh-I-noor = a famous diamond from 14th century India which weighted 186 carats.  It is now in the crown of the Queen's Consort and among the Crown Jewels on display in the Tower of London.

p. 21 - Gourock = Port town in the west of Scotland, near Glasgow.

p. 21 - Dr. Barnardo = a 19th-century philanthropist who set up schools for homeless boys. The organization still exists as Barnardo's.

p. 21 - Ball boys = Boys hired to get the balls at tennis matches.

p. 22 - Reliant Scimitar = expensive sports car.  http://www.scimweb.com/

p. 22 - Nivada Grenchen = a vintage wristwatch from the 1950s

p. 23 - Eddie Ugboma = a Nigerian movie producer

p. ? - Tobermory = a port town on the Island of Mull, in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides

p. 23 - Hully gully = a song by the Beach Boys, from September 1965, from the album “Party”. Part of the lyrics:

Well, there's a dance spreadin' round like an awful disease
Hully, hully gully
You just shake your shoulders and you wiggle your knees
(Play it like it is!)
Hully, hully gully

p. 23 – Bluebottle – (a) Australian polyp creature; (b) kind of fly; (c) Film production company; (d) character in The Goon Show; (e) the racing yacht belonging to Prince Phillip, built by Camper and Nicholson.  Definition (e) is the one intended here.

p. 23 – Christina = the yacht which belonged to Aristotle Onassis.

p. 23 – The Britannia = the yacht which belonged to Queen Elizabeth, owned since 1998 by the Royal Yacht Britannia Trust in Edinburgh.

p. 23 – Cardinal Spellman = Spellman, Francis Joseph US Catholic cardinal 1946; Catholic archbishop of New York City 1939-1967, lived 1889-1967.

p. 24 – yawl = a fore-and-aft rigged sailboat carrying a mainsail and one or more jibs with a mizzenmast far aft

p. 24 – Bergdorf Goodman = a clothing store in New York

p. 24 – La Gioconda = an opera by Amilcare Ponchielli (1834-1886). The reference is to the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.

p. 25 – chaffingly = teasingly

p. 25 – jib = a triangular sail set on a stay extending usually from the head of the foremast to the bowsprit or the jib boom; also : the small triangular headsail on a sloop

p. 25 – - stays’l =  staysail = a fore-and-aft sail hoisted on a stay

p. 25 – main = (a) mainland (b) high sea (c) mainmast (d) mainsail

p. 25 – = mizzen =  a fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast; the mizzenmast is the mast aft or next aft of the mainmast in a ship.

Cowes = town S England on Isle of Wight

Baguette diamonds = a diamond with the shape of a narrow rectangle

Broadtail = the fur or skin of a very young or premature karakul lamb having a flat and wavy appearance resembling moiré silk.  Karakul sheep are fat-tailed sheep from Uzbekistan.

p. 26 - Humber Imperial = classic and expensive British car, the preferred transport of Edward VI

p. 26 - Rhu = village on the west coast of Scotland, 26 miles NW of Glasgow.

p. 27 – Galitzine = Irene Galitzene, Italian couturier of the 1960s.  Designed suits like Audrey Hepburn wore.

p. 27 - pooped = swamped or washed over by the sea

p. 30 – Oxfam = charitable organization which addresses world hunger.

p. 30 – Hermès =  French perfumiers since 1837.  Distinguishing their Nice branch by the scent is presumably an affectation of Tina’s.

p. 30 – Rigoletto = an opera by Giuseppe Verdi, first performed in Venice in 1851

p. 31 – Mrs Dale’s Diary = a British radio soap opera which ran c. 1960

p. 32 - pixie caps = toques, stocking caps (I'm not sure what Americans call them!)

p. 33 - toggles = a piece or device for holding or securing, e.g., a pin in a nautical knot to make it secure

p 33 - selvedges = the finished edge of fabric, or the bits to be trimmed off a carpet or postage stamp

p. 34 - épater la bourgeoisie = to try to impress people with empty show

p. 34 - Staffa = Hebridean Island with spectacular pillar formations of rock, including Fingal's Cave.  You can see a picture here.

p. 34 - Iona = Hebridean Island famous for being the origin of Scottish Christianity under St. Columba in the 6th century.  It is the burial place of the early Scottish kings.

p. 34 - Barra = Hebridean Island.  You can see a picture here.

p. 34 - Rodel = town on the Isle of Harris in the Hebrides.

p. 34 - Skye = large island in the Hebrides, seat of the Clan MacDonald, associated with Bonnie Prince Charlie.  Its main town is Portree.

p. 36 - Formentor = cape and beach in Mallorca

p. 36 = Alghero = resort town in Sardininia

p. 40 - tutti = in Italian music, a direction for all to play in full concert

p 40 - steam-flustered = made hot and red by steam, agitated

p. 41 - foredeck = the fore part of a deck or ship

p 41 - Pucci trousers = trousers designed by Italian fashion designer Emilio Pucci, who characteristically used brightly-coloured silks.

p. 41 - Ma Griffe = a Parisian perfume

p 42 - pizzicato = played by plucking the strings of a musical instrument such as a violin or cello with the fingers instead of using a bow

p 43 - Farex = an Italian company that makes air conditioners

p. 44 - Gilda = the female lead role in Rigoletto, an opera by Verdi.

p. 47 - knock up = to wear out, exhaust

p 47 - breakwater = a very large wall built from the coast out into the sea to protect a beach or harbour from big waves.

p. 48 - sailsuit = I couldn't find this.

p. 50 - fry = young, small fish

p. 50 - flex = electric cable

p. 51 - hawse-pipe = a tubular casing, fitted to a shop's bows, through which the anchor chain or cable passes.

p. 51 - Brasso = a commercial brass-cleaner

p. 51 - spirit level = a glass tube nearly filled with alcohol, showing perfect levelness when the bubble is central.

p. 51 - fo'c'sle = forecastle = a short raised deck at the fore-end of a ship; the foremost part of a ship under the maindeck, the quarters of the crew.

p. 52 - saloon = large public cabin or dining-room for passengers on a ship, luxury train, etc.

p. 52 - screw = a screw propeller or ship driven by one

p. 54 - tepidita = coolness

p. 54 - Talisker = a whisky from Skye

p. 55 - cloqué = an embossed fabric

p. 55 - The Lovin' Spoonful =  An American rock band.  Here's some information about them from the webpage tribute at http://www.onlinetalent.com/Spoonful_biography.html:

In early 1965 as the "British Invasion" dominated the American music scene, two rockers from Long Island, Steve Boone and Joe Butler, teamed up with two folkies from Greenwich Village, John Sebastian and Zal Yanovsky, to form the Lovin' Spoonful and go on to record and perform some of the songs that would dominate the charts and establish them among the greats of the mid-sixties era.

Just a week or two ago my dear old Uncle Bill,
He went and kicked the bucket and he left me in his will

p. 57 - onyx dish = a foreshadowing of Onyx, which we learn about in Moroccan Traffic? <g>

p. 57 - trattoria = an Italian restaurant

p. 57 - emba = a breed of mink

p. 57 - portamento = a continuous glide from one tone to another; sometimes applied to an execution between staccato and legato.

p. 58 - ponyskin = the skin of a foal, especially from the Kirghiz Steppes, used as a fur.

p. 58 - the life of Riley = an easy, carefree (and often irresponsible) life

p. 59 - Sheffield Wednesday = a football club

p. 59-60 - the Lily of Laguna = a song by black American composer Eugene Stratton (1961-1918).

p. 61 - Die Fledermaus = an opera by Ricard Strauss (1825-1899).  "Fledermaus" is German for "bat".

p. 62 - spar = a general term for masts, yards, booms, gaffs,  etc.

p. 62 - R.T. = radio-telephone

p. 65 - meadowsweet = the rosaceous pant queen-of-the-meadows (piraea ulmaria), a tall fragrant plant which grows in watery meadows. This is fragrant enough to be used for medicinal oils and aromatherapy.

p. 66 - Pollockshaws = a road in Glasgow.

p. 67 - French roll = hairstyle in which the hair is formed into a vertical roll at the back of the head

p. 67 - radiogram = a combined wireless receiver and gramophone

p. 67 - bakelite = a synthetic resin with high chemical and electrical resistance; a hard plastic.

p. 67 = recitative = a style of song resembling speech in its succession of tones and freedom from melodic form; a passage to be sung in this manner

p. 67 - aria = an air or melody, especially an accompanied vocal solo in a cantata, oratorio or opera; a melody followed by another in contrast and complement, and then repeated da capo.

p. 67 - climacteric = a critical period in human life, in which some great bodily change takes place; any critical time.

p. 67 - Donna Elvira = the female lead in the opera Don Giovanni by Mozart.

p. 68 - puffers = especially in Scotland, a small cargo-carrying boat used in coastal waters

p. 69 - catsuit = a type of formfitting one-piece trouser suit

p. 69 - Huddy Leadbetter = Leadbelly,  "The King of the 12 String Guitar", legendary blues singer, d. 1949.  Presumably Rupert is joking when he talks about 'new single', if Leadbelly had died almost twenty years earlier.

p. 69 - clove hitch = a kind of hitch knot, used to connect a rope to another rope of greater thickness or to secure a rope to a post, etc.  A hitch knot is one which connects one rope to another, or to something to be dragged.

p. 69 - Trumper's Eucris = Aftershave and cologne made by Geo. Fr. Trumper. "the English scent".  From their online ad:  "Eucris Eau de Toilette: Vetiver and rose create the opening impact of this fragrance, which leaves resolute yet haunting middle and base notes. Modern, sophisticated and elegant."

p. 69 - matelassé = a jaquard fabric having a raised pattern as if quilted.

p. 69 - Givenchy = French perfume manufacturer and fashion house.  Le Dé is one of their fragrances.

p. 73 - Be Young With Yoga, a book by Richard Hittleman on elementary yoga practice, published 1964.

p. 73 - The Colòn = Teatro Colòn, opera house in Buenos Aires.  See http://colon.is.com.ar/

p. 73 - Abbotsinch Airport = airport near Glasgow, Scotland.

p. 74 - aufgeregt = German word meaning excited, fussy, nervous.

p. 75 - salignac = a wine from Salignac, a town in the east of Acquitain, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.

p. 75 - Americas Cup = a yacht race set up by Queen Victoria in 1848 to be open to all nations.

p. 75 - Wimy Bar = a chain of hamburger joints in the U.K.

p. 76 - marquise diamond = diamond cut int he shape of a pointed oval.

p. 76 - wartski = Antique Dealers of London, established 1865.

p. 76 - Blue Grass = a line of make-up from Elizabeth Arden.

p. 77 - Genet = Jean Genet (1910-1986), French dramatist and novelist.

p. 77 - reefer = marijuana

p. 77 - sub-deb = subdebutante, a young girl who is about to become a debutante; hence, a girl in her middle teens.

p. 77 - Q.C. = Queen's Counsel, a high-ranking lawyer.

p. 77 - C.A. = Chartered Accountant.

p. 77 - "Cooing Sound" = Posssibly an item from the Kama Sutra found as one of the "Eight Forms of Crying".

p. 78 - "Westering Home" - a traditional Scottish song.  You can here it here.  Among its lyrics:

Chorus:
Westering home with a song in the air
Light of me eye and it's goodbye to care
Laughter and love are a welcoming there
Pride of me heart my own love [or:  Isle of heart, my own one]

Tell me a tale of the orient gay
Tell me of riches that come from Cathay
Ah but it's grand to be waken at day
And find oneself nearer to Isla

p. 78 -  matelassé = a jaquard fabric having a raised pattern as if quilted

p. 80 - Wagner = Richard Wagner, German Opera Composer. 1813 - 1883.

p. 81 - oilskins = waterproof clothing

p. 81 - bat-house =  a house for bats.  Presumably Rupert is saying (rudely) that Ogden is crazy.

p. 81 - Bunny mother = Girls in training to be Playboy Bunnies are supervised and taught the trade by a Bunny Mother.

p. 81 - round the twist = crazy, mad, insane.

p. 83 - champers = champagne

p. 84 - Fingal's Cave = "Fingal's Cave, on the island of Staffa off the west coast of Scotland (near Mull and Iona), is a sea cave formed within Tertiary basalt lava flows which have cooled to form hexagonal columns (like those of the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland). There is a path in on one side which involves stepping from the top of one column to the next. The cave stretches 250 feet in to the rock and its roof is 70 feet above the sea. Fingal's cave was the inspriration for Mendelssohn's Hebridean overture."  See a picture here.

p. 84 - Coll = Off the west coast of Scotland, "Coll is a peaceful island with 140 inhabitants and about 45 crofts, a landscape of sandy beaches, dunes and peat bog, freshwater lochs and rock."  See pictures of it here.

p. 84 - cockscomb = a crest-like mineral aggregate

p. 84 - MacBrayne = Company which runs the ferry and travel packages on the Scottish Wast Coast.  Yu can read about them here.

p. 84 - Mendelssohns' Overture = Hebrides Overture "Fingal's Cave", popular work by German composer Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47). Written 1830.

p. 85 - faggoted = bundled together like sticks

p. 85 - sward = grassy surface of land, green turf.

p. 86 - stanchions = an upright beam, bar, rod, shaft. etc., acting as a support; a strut.

p. 86 - minim = a least part; a note, formerly the shortest, equal to two crochets.

p. 87 - tinning = something cheaply and flimsily made

p. 88 - Turnbull and Asser = Shirtmakers an dclothiers established in London since 1885.  See their web page here.

p. 88 - anorak = British word for parka; a hooded waterproof outer jacket.

p. 90 - calyx = the outer covering of a flower, its modified leaves termed sepals that protect the developing flower.

p. 91 - the Valkyrie = In Scandinavian mythology, any one of the minor goddesses who conducted the slain from the battlefield to Valhalla.  Richard Wagner wrote an opera in 3 acts called The Valkyrie.

p. 93 - Ardnamurchan = "Ardnamurchan Point, the most westerly point of the British Mainland, The Kingdom of Lights.
The unspoilt Ardnamurchan Peninsula lies due west of Fort William. Its southern coast runs alongside Loch Sunart and the Sound of Mull. The northern coast looks towards the nearby islands of Muck, Eigg and Rhum. Both coastlines meet at Ardnamurchan Point, home to Ardnamurchan Lighthouse."   You can see a picture of it here.

p. 94 - burgee = a triangular or swallow-tailed flag or pennant

Chapter 9, pp. 96 - 110

p. 96 - hod =  stemmed trough for carrying bricks or mortor onthe shoulder

p. 96 - twill = a woven fabric showing diagonal lines, the weft yarns having been worked over one and under two or more warp yarns.

p. 96 - sables and hogs = paint-brushes

p. 97 - cara diva = "beloved diva" or great female singer

p. 97 - Tina Rossi lists a series of primary female roles from various operas.  These are:

 

Role	Opera	Composer	Nation and Date
Margeurite	Paul et Virginie	Victor Massé (1822-1884)	France, 1876
Titania	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (1809-1847)	Germany, 1826
Tosca	La Tosca	Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)	Italy, 1900
Norma	Norma	Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)	Italy, 1831
Lucia	Lucia di Lammermoor	Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848)	Italy, 1835
Nedda	Pagliacci	Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919)	Italy, 1892
Rosina	The Barber of Seville	Gioacchino Rossini. (1792 - 1868)	Italy, 1816
Ameria	Spartaco	Giuseppe Porsile (1680-1750)	Austria, 1726
Imogene	Il Pirata	Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)	Italy, 1827

• Galli-Curci = Amelita Galli-Curci, 1889-1963, Italian coloratura soprano
• Adelina Patti (1843-1919) = coloratura soprano, b. Madrid, of Italian parents. She was trained in New York City, where she made her debut in 1859, thereafter singing with great acclaim in London, Paris, and Milan.
• Jenny Lind, 1820-87, Swedish soprano.
• Luiza Tetrazzini 1871-1940, Italian coloratura soprano.

p. 97 - bel canto = Italian for 'beautiful singing".  A manner of operatic singing that cultivates beauty of tone.

p. 101 - sharkskin = the skin of a shark or leather made from it; a facric made from rayon or acetate, witha smooth, silky surface

p. 101 - frogging = decorative fasteners, as on a coat or jacket, with a button or knot on one side and a loop on the other side, usually made of braid or cord

p. 101 - hawser = a thick rope or cable used for towing or mooring a ship

p. 105 - chippy = aggressively beligerent, marked by much fighting

p. 105 - croft = a small farm worked bya tenant

p. 105 - groovy = pleasing, super

p. 112 - ciré = a smooth, shiny finish, as on a fabric, produced by treatment with wax and heat

p. 112 - chandler = a merchant of various supplies and dry goods, often for a ship

p. 115 - kapok = tropical tree and the fibre (floss) obtained from the seeds in the ripened pods.  The lustrous, yellowish floss is light, fluffy, resiliant and resistent to water and decay. It is used as a stuffing, especially for life preservers, beddy and upholstery, and for insulation against sound and heat.

p. 117 - sou'wester = southwester = a waterproof hat or rainjacket or slicker

p. 136 - Mack Sennett = producer of silent movies, particularly farces, including the Keystone Cops

p. 137 - TAM rating = rating of popularity of television shows, like the Neilson ratings

p. 137 - windscreen = (U.S.) windshield

p. 138 - Charley's Aunt = a very popular farce by Brandon Thomas

p. 138 - The Flintstones = a popular televised animated cartoon about a stone-age family whose culture was just like the 1960s, though everything they had was made of stone.  The show ran 1960-1966.

p. 138 - Kodachrome = a kind of colour Kodak film

p. 138 - kip-down = sleepover

p. 141 - block = the casing in which a pulley is set

p. 142 - tabard = a capelike jacket

p. 142 - fiddles = the guardrails on a ship's table, to prevent objects from falling off because of the ship's motion

p. 143 - spar = a strong pole, especially one that supports sails on a ship, such as the mast, boom, gaff or yard

p. 144 - Tilley lamp = parafin pressure lamps, made by Tilley

p. 145 - dory = rowboat,  a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled

p. 145 - slipway = a slope from which boats are put into or taken out of the water, or a place where they are built

p. 147 - Carnegie Hall = Concert hall in New York City, built by Andew Carnegie (1835-1919), American industrialist and philanthropist

p. 148 - smudge fire = a fire taht fumigates with its smoke

p. 149 - ego and id = Freudian terms for the self.  The 'ego' is the self which is conscious and thinks; the 'id' si thesubconscious mass of primitive energies from which come instincts for the gratification of basix desires for such things as food, sex, or the avoidance of pain.

p. 150 - napery = (chiefly Scottish) household linen, especially for the table

p. 150 - Gothic = denoting the 12th-16th century st yle of architecture in churches, etc., with high-pinted arches, clustered columns, etc.

p. 150 - oriel  = small room or recess with a polygonal bay window, built out from a wall, resting on the ground or more usually supported on brackets or corbels

p. 152 - sweet-paper = (U.S.) candy wrapper

p. 152 - CND = Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

P. 20 – description of Johnson –

The black hair, the caterpillar eyebrows, the damned housefly bifocals.

Johnson's background was landed gentry: his people were well known in Surrey.  After public school and university he had joined the Royal Navy.... But for the last fifteen years had been known for one thing: his celebrity portraits.  From being a good technician and a sympathetic artist, he had become probably the best known portrait artist there is....

He was unmarried.

p. 30

I have never met anyone with such a nondescript face: except for the hair and the eyebrows it seems positively manufactured of glass.  I tidied my hair, fleetingly, in his bifocals.

Just like Dorothy, she is so cagey about age any way.

Mickey DCJJ

“She’s thirty-four tons.”

“Look, the Christina’s one thousand eight hundred.”

“She’s a gaff-rigged auxiliary ketch which can be handled by three at a pinch.”

"his plushy blue rug by the bunk."
 
 

With my thanks to So-Called Judith for supplying this:

INDEX:
 

In order of appearance

Valentina Rossi Lakowski Twiss

• Polish-Italian orphan
• The only really photogenic leading coloratura soprano alive
• Official base - Talloires
• Flat in Grosvenor Square
• Hair bleached almost silver
• born in Fife to Polish airman father who died in a crash and Italian potato picker mother who died in childbirth

• her brilliant manager and "repetiteur"
• Has echoes of Tottenham Court Road in his speech
• Gets airsick and seasick
• Thick lacquered "Trumper" haircut

• her lover
• Highly trained Government engineer - chief explosives engineer
• London address
• Muscular

• Loans flat at 22B Rose Street to Kenneth Holmes
• Murdered in chapter 1
• Chigwell was a cold-eyed, powerful man with pale eyes

• owner of Dolly
• 38 years old
• Landed gentry, people well-known in Surrey
• Known for celebrity portraits for 15 years (since age 23)
• Ex-Royal Navy

• Steward on Duke Buzzy's ship
• Goldtooth was a little, spare man in a jersey and slacks with big, powerful hands and a single tooth that flashed (and later

gleamed)

• JJ's mate on Dolly
• Large, giggly and golden
• Big heifer's head
• Guards officer

• JJ's crewman
• From Golders Green
• Ex-Royal Navy, Ex-Royal Yacht
• p. 47: small, middle-aged man with large ears
• genius with electricity

• Crew for Cecil Ogden on Seawolf
• Rupert's former girlfriend
• Cow-like eyes, mouth much too big, built like a hockey centre-forward, small, bony, agile, long hanging, mud-colored hair
• P. 45:  thin, bony, rather sad face like a medical missionary

• owner of Seawolf
• Bermuda cutter held together with string
• Wealthy parents keep him on short rations
• Begs parts from all over and takes souvenirs
• a thin man, with a long melancholy face with a chin like the end of a dogbone, cultured English voice with no regional accent

 

• owner of Symphonetta
• Sunburnt gentleman with golden hair
• Has shipbuilding yard and divorced wife in Nassau
• Builds oil tankers
• Is on the Edinburgh Festival commitee
• P. 35:  neat corrugated (one of DD's favorite adjectives in this book) head and dimple
• owns sugar and cotton estates, family-owned Latin Shipping Line, suspected of gun-running

• owners of Binkie
• Two small rotund persons, faces mahogany with weather and flattery
• Bob runs a garage in Falkirk
• Vegetarians
• Members of R.S.P.C.A.
• Anti-nuclear activists

• owners of Evergreen
• 80 tons, 84 feet, 250 B.H.P. engine
• Own pub and dance hall in Liverpool
• On J.J.'s team

• son (?) of owner of Cara Mia

• skipper of puffer Willa Mavis
• On J.J.'s team

• owner of Valida, steam yacht
• Tall, pink, hairless lecher
• Owns half the shooting and fishing rights north of the Highland line
• and several distilleries
• Puts champagne in Fingal's Cave on Staffa

• Rupert's mother
• Deep-sea household in Castlebay, Barra
• Her other sons are a surgeon, a police chief and a Minister of State
• Husband lost at sea

• p. 6: couple kissing in doorway outside 22B Rose Street and man lighting cigarette on the kerb (probably Johnson's people watching the place)
• p. 22: Lord Provost's supper party: a solo violinist, a producer, two critics, a broadcaster, an actress, and a few of the Corps Diplomatique (including the Ambassador and his wife)
• p. 87: Chase Ruddyman: Tina's discoverer, wealthy gay actor (dies before the action of the book)
• p. 88: Vittioni: Tina's master voice coach in Milan
• p. 106: Guests on Cara Mia: Q.C. from Blue Kitten, Professor with guitar from Mina, a C.A.'s family
• p. 108: Frederick Hennessy, Hennessy's dead son, drowned off Symphonetta
• p. 148: At Duncan's Peggy's house: Three exiled MacNeils, coolest harp, guitar and tanor sax combo outside Harlem
• Jane and Cindy, debutante guests on Cara Mia
• p. 1, p. 217: Janine, Tina's maid and hairdresser
• An Ambassador and his wife from London
• Karajan
• Mr. Roberts, Law student crewman for Hennessey who wants to play violin
• Mr. Shaw Medical student crewman for Hennessey

Tina's Clothing - compiled by Judith Grubner

Ch. 1

On the airplane: Dark glasses, head scarf, raincoat, Balenciaga

At the first concert: Bonwit Teller dress so tight she couldn't sit down in it

Press conference:  Platinum hairpiece

Ch. 2

To visit Kenneth: Three layers of chiffon in coffee and white, slit from neck to waist at the back, yellow diamond

Second concert: Dressed up piece from wig box

Lord Provost's supper party: White broadtail (tailored fur), clip and earrings in baguette diamonds (Johnson Johnosn calls them the Koh-i-noors)

Lunch with Hennessy: Blond tweed from Bergdorf Goodman, champagne diamond

Ch. 3

Royal Highlands Cruising Club Headquarters, Rhu: Princess Galitzine trouser suit in Bankok quilted silk with a little bow on the bottom, ruby ring

Breakfast at the Yacht Club: Almond pink thin kid trouser suit, matching kid boots, knitted silk jersey, large uncut emerald ring,
dark cat's glasses from Miami

Ch. 4

Sailing on Dolly: Pucci trousers

Ch. 5

Evergreen cocktail party: Black kangaroo skin dress with copper chain belt, small copper boots

Ch. 6

Citrine topazes

Ch. 7

Crinan Canal: White cotton matelasse and uncut turquoises, marquise and baguette diamond bracelet from Hennessy

Ch. 8

Morning on Dolly: Skin trousers, man's printed lawn shirt, suede boots

Evening on Dolly: Little gold alpaca coat, silver Mexican earrings

Ch. 9

Barra: Black sling crocodile bag, black quilted silk trouser suit with white frogging and detachable ermine-trimmed hood, black opal earrings

From closet on Vallida: dress all hooks and eyes and wiring and cutaways, horizontally stranded red fox fur coat

Ch. 10

Portree, Skye:  Cire rainsuit lined with lynx fur, ribbon tweed with Diorama, black rainproof trousers and boots, short shining black mackintosh and black oiled silk turban

Chs. 11-12

South Rona: No descriptions of clothing

Ch. 13

On Dolly sailing to Rum: Hooded silk ski suit, white quilted tabard, white kneeboots

Chs. 14-17

Castle on Rum, sailing on Seawolf in storm: No descriptions of clothing

Ch. 18

On Evergreen: Ricci suit and sheared beaver jacker, doctorbird pin in uncut stones and enamel, pearl and enamel dome ring, mention of cinnamon diamonds

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