“Mona said, 'Did you see Gore's new play The Best Man when you were in New York?' 'Of course not.'…'Don't like plays, only shows.”

— Edward VIII of the United Kingdom

He meant musical comedies."
In conversation with Mona Bismarck and Gore Vidal (Vidal, Palimpsest, 206)

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king of the United Kingdom and its dominions in 1936 1894–1972

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