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Artist Sert's first wife was a great-grandniece of Composer Franz Liszt. She accompanied Stylist Gabrielle Chanel to Hollywood last spring. The present Senora Sert was once Princess Mdivani of the much-married Mdivanis of Georgia (South Russia). (Brother David married Cinemactress Mae Murray; Brother Serge married Cinemactress Pola Negri, then Soprano Mary McCormic; Brother Alexis married Socialite Louise Astor Van Alen...
...Manhattan famed Stylist Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel, who is on her way from her Paris shops to Hollywood to design clothes for cinemactresses, received newsgatherers. She was attired in red sports clothes and wore a five-strand pearl necklace, ten bracelets. She said, among other things: "The perfume which many women use is not mysterious. Women are not flowers. Why should they want to smell like flowers? I like roses, and the smell of the rose is very beautiful, but I do not want a woman to smell like a rose...
...Gabrielle Chanel-Even hemlines, waist at the hips. Sport skirts just cover the knee. Evening skirts flare from the hip or the knee, have ruffled backs. (Again the bustle...
...latest play of Ferenc Molnar, Hungarian playwright, a businessman asks his stenographer what perfume she uses. To her reply, "Chanel 8," says he: "Try Molineux 22; it is cheaper and smells 37% better." Because of this speech, Playwright Molnar was sued last week in Paris by Perfumer Gabrielle Chanel...
...public most eagerly devours. Many will be interested to know now that he likes apples, oysters, caviar, expensive cigars; that he plays good tennis, boxes, dances, does subtle imitations of Charlie Chaplin, Lon Chaney, Pianists Wanda Landowska and George Gershwin; that O'Rossen of Paris makes his clothes, Chanel his perfume; that he is inevitably late save for engagements of one sort. When he is scheduled to appear in concert he is always meticulously prompt for he feels it a grave responsibility to be José Iturbi, Spain's greatest pianist...