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...should visit Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Ark. but rotund Elsa Maxwell, professional party-liner for café society. Last week, interviewed by the New York World-Telegram, Miss Maxwell had some unexpectedly shrewd observations to make about the U.S. Army's morale. Said...
Shirer describes the atmosphere in the newspaper circles of the Café Louvre: "Martha Fodor* is there, fighting to keep back the tears, every few minutes phoning the news to Fodor. Emil Maass, my former assistant, an Austro-American, who has long posed as an anti-Nazi, struts in, stops before the table. 'Well, meine Damen und Herren,' he smirks 'it was about time.' And he turns over his coat lapel, unpins his hidden Swastika button, and repins it on the outside. . . . Two or three women shriek: 'Shame!' at him. Major Goldschmidt, Legitimist, Catholic...
...Café society's Patricia Anne ("Honey-chile") Wilder phoned home in a panic to make sure a borrowed $65,000 necklace was still safe on her dressing table. "Yes'm," said her maid, "and it looks 'most real. I was a killer las' night when I wore it up in Harlem...
...hair, from Sulka)-has been the most readable in the U.S. Critic Thomson knows his stuff, and is entirely without self-consciousness in saying it. Instead of mumbling about dynamics, he reports: the orchestra "played loud." He announced firmly, of Composer Samuel Barber, that "his heart is pure." In café lingo he declared that a chorus sang "perfectly. But perfectly." He also twists the tails of Carnegie Hall's sacred cows. Thomson on Fiddler Jascha Heifetz...
Etiquette. In Boston, Mass., Mrs. Hazel Barber, 46, café entertainer, confessed slaying her boy friend, 56, because he wouldn't kiss her good-by when he was leaving her for good...