Before Sleeve Touch became commercial, it was not known how often the
chromium-plated polishing belts would need to be replaced.
She puts down the chunky
chromium-plated Ronson lighter and regales her friends with tales of her sojourn in America, where she saw the amazing black dancer Josephine Baker, and of her return crossing on the luxury ocean liner the Normandie, just launched in 1935, and fitted with stunning interiors including Jean Dunand's lacquer wall panels in the smoking room.
He enraged pianist Liberace when he described him as "this deadly, winking, sniggering,
chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavoured, mincing, ice-covered heap of Mother Love".
This was a centre stage performance in every way, brilliant technically and tonally, on an instrument at the peak of
chromium-plated brightness.