On my card was penciled, “Mind you come early ... How I wished that in my current novel, Kept, I could have a couple meeting at a cocktail party, then going off together to Soho to “the shaded lights ...

The Fresh Toast - Enjoyed by many, few know the history of the cocktail party. It could be an inspiration for one soon!

It is my belief and boast that I invented the London cocktail party—in April, 1924. At that time I considered myself to be, and in retrospect I feel I was, a fate-favored mortal.

It is my belief and boast that I invented the London cocktail party—in April, 1924. At that time I considered myself to be, and in retrospect I feel I was, a fate-favored mortal.