Word: crasherses
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Squatting on mats, the villagers watched, chanted, beat out rhythms on packing boxes, joined the stylized, immemorial South Sea steps. The tempo rose to crescendo. Then beyond the fringe of lamplight sounded whistles of applause. But these were native whistlers, not American gate-crashers. For U.S. troops the villages of...
Born into a wealthy family (her grandfather was Banker Robert Livingston Cutting), she made her own debut in 1890 with the present Lady Ribblesdale (once Mrs. John Jacob Astor). When the family fortune fizzled, she taught ballroom dancing, then began to run other people's parties. Among her notable...
Strictly stag, Sir Max's party was a literary event to which invitations were as rare and precious as a half-pound of wartime beefsteak. Novelist Charles Morgan (The Fountain) and Poet T. S. Eliot begged so hard to come that they were finally admitted as "gate crashers." George...
Sergeant at Arms Vic McKenzie of Oregon has 100 assistants to help keep order, and 75 doorkeepers to keep out crashers.
Last week the Moneywasters gave a dance. As usual, they did things up brown. This time they had Maestro Walter Barnes of Chicago and his Royal Creolians. Tickets in advance were 50?; on the spot, 65?. Negroes flocked to Natchez from Vicksburg, Centreville, Vidalia, Baton Rouge, even from New Orleans...