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Died. Rosalynd Amper, fortyish, once the toast of Shanghai night-lifers; in an opium den, pipe in hand; in Shanghai. Blonde, lissome Rosalynd Amper began singing in 1923 in Shanghai's Del Monte Cafe, surrounded herself with generous suitors. In 1928 she was maimed in an automobile crash, lost her beauty and her lovers. To get money, she borrowed on the strength of a mythical special delivery letter, which never came but earned her the name of "Special Delivery Rose...
...infected tooth), she was convinced by her son, Novelist John Evans, that a salon is needed. Mabel hopes to get a crowd like the old one ("They were young. They were magnetic. They had radiance."), is sure there are "youngish people who crave for something more satisfying than cafe society...
...international ass of yourself, Unity!" she was told at the Bayreuth Music Festival last summer by candid young Cambridge Poet Stanley Richardson, protege of the Archbishop of York. Asinine indeed had been her conduct ever since she let the Führer pick her up originally in a Munich cafe in 1934. "I want everybody to know I am a Jew-hater!" she soon wrote to the Stürmer, the notorious Nazi anti-Semitic organ, "England for the English-out with the Jews! Heil Hitler!" By last summer the Führer was visibly tired of "the English miss...
...save her pretty daughter all this hullabaloo, Patricia's mother, Mrs. Dunbar Plunkett, brought Patricia out last fortnight at a staid reception where friends of the family outnumbered cafe society. But Miss Plunkett had already been chosen by bellwether Charles ("Chic") Farmer of the Stork Club. This month her face, painted by Bradshaw Crandell, appeared on the cover of Cosmopolitan...
Born. To Prince Alexis Obolensky II, 25, Manhattan cafe socialite, Russian nobleman once removed, and Princess Obolensky (Jane Wheeler Irby), 23, New Orleans socialite: their first child, a daughter; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Name: Ann. Weight...