CHAP Spring 2024

The Silver Jubilee edition marking 25 years of The Chap, with David Niven, Silver Foxes Cary Grant, Stewart Granger and Patrick Macnee, Silver vixens of the silver screen Anne Bancroft, Barbara Stanwyck and Jane Fonda. We also meet a real-life silver lady who may not appreciate being called a Silver Vixen – Lindsay Duncan. The last 25 years of anarcho-dandyism are the subject of Torquil Arbuthnot’s history of The Chap, from its days as the manifesto for tweedy revolutionaries demanding lapsang souchong in MacDonalds to a copy of The Chap appearing on the dashboard of a Daimler belonging to the villain in Midsomer Murders. At the other end of the criminal world, we assess the new production of The Talented Mr Ripley with Andrew Scott in the lead. Alexander Larman chronicles the last decade of David Bowie, who once had a dress made by swinging sixties tailor Mr Fish, a subject for our sartorial section. We also meet the filmmakers of a documentary about the Scala Cinema, while Society of Salome visit the newly restored Leighton House in London in their Victorian and Edwardian finery. All this plus Am I Silver?, Dr. William Price, literary recluses, 25-not-out in Cricket and Silver Jubilee railways.