Word: calls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thing." Perle relishes her position to the full. She has learned not to call society editors to read them her guest list (the girls are glad to call her), but she is not above inquiring coyly after a dinner: "How many ambassadors did I have last night? Six or eight? I never can remember." She often summons her guests from afar, likes to remark casually: "So-and-so is flying in from San Francisco for my dinner tomorrow...
...Helen Hokinson character. Her figure requires stern corseting; she carries a diet book in her purse, consults it before ordering. Except for her parties, she hates to spend money. Once she walked two blocks to Democratic headquarters because her hotel charged 12? for a phone call. People are always trying to wheedle money out of her; she does her own ordering for big affairs, and drives a good housewifely bargain. Says Perle, thrusting out her chin: "I'm stingy. That's why I've got my money today...
Perle is reaping her reward. She is one of the few people who call Mrs. Truman "Bess," often drops in for lunch at Blair House. At the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner, she sat at the President's right hand with her famed diamond clips aglitter, next day proudly stood beside him in a receiving line for deserving Democrats. ("Did you notice us winking at each other? That's because several people called me Mrs. Truman.") She even made her first political speech, and the President told her it was wonderful...
...only strong criticism is that Pablo was allowed to sleep through the curtain calls. If the Pudding wants to win friends, they better wake Gwynne up and give him a call all by himself. Maybe they could rig a hammock in midstage...
...Boston, Beatrice Lillie came down with an upset stomach, had to call off one evening's performance of the touring Inside U.S.A. The management refunded $5,500 to 1,700 disappointed playgoers...