What it takes to be fashionable is what Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, 33-year-old son of a London coal & lumber merchant, possesses in a degree so extreme as to make plain people squirm. To the fastidious world of Mayfair, however, Photographer Beaton's delicate infusions of the cockeyed into the swank have long seemed divine. After a gala summer, including a trip to Cande to make exclusive portraits for Vogue of his friend the Duchess of Windsor and a visit to his friend Mrs. Harrison ("Best Dressed") Williams at her villa on Capri, slim Cecil Beaton was in Manhattan this week a-tiptoe for the U. S. publication of his Scrapbook.) +- Sure to grace drawing rooms wherever there are bright young things, this rococo collection displays not only smart photographs of Britain's Brightest, from Poet W. H. Auden to Princess Natalie Paley, but gifted sketches of stage decor and costumes, needlepointed notes on cinema stars, which prove that Jean Cocteau was right when he called Beaton "Malice in Wonderland."

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