***** London grime from a rococo fancy. Sir John Lastein and Mrs. Tondi Adams watch Mr. John Lee at ***** on the Rex Whistler painting. Tate Murals - Sir John Rothenstein, who always combines so graciously the role of host and director at the Tate, took me down to the restaurant last night to see the progress of the cleaning of the Rex Whistler ***** By " cleaning " nothing very radical need be feared. This rococo flight of fancy, which the young Whistler painted as a student of 20 just out of the Slade, needs only a little removal of London grime. June 09, 1954. (Photo by Daily Mail Contract).