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Eliot House's dinner dance at 7:15 o'clock boasts the music of Chick Webb's orchestra, the singing of Elia Fitzgerald, and dancing until 2:00 o'clock. The dining room has been specially decorated and the preparations for dancing under the stars on the terrace have given the dance its name, "The Terrace Dance...
Then there are such diversions as the crossword puzzle in the Traveler. The better ones will keep you going for two hours after dinner and what more could you ask. Charles Lamb's pen name was "Elia". The synonym for "Unctuous" is "oily". The word (in cross-word puzzles) for "inflexibility" is "rigid". God help you if they want the name of a town on the Isle of Wight...
...Italians. Four of last week's appointments threw the balance in Rome's favor: those of Most Rev. Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi, apostolic delegate to the U. S. and Mexico; Most Rev. Maurilio Fossati, Archbishop of Turin; Most Rev. Angelo Maria Dolci, papal nuncio to Rumania; Most Rev. Elia Delia Costa, Archbishop of Florence. Non-Italian cardinals created were Most Rev. Jean-Marie Rodrigue Villeneuve, Archbishop of Quebec and Most Rev. Theodor Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna. It was said last week that Pius XI presented two more names to the consistory, which would hold them secret until a second...
...Dossena sculptures had been sold as original antiques by the great Renaissance artists: Donatello, Verrocchio, Mino da Fiesole, Niccola Pisano, etc., etc. Newspapers, promptly dubbed him "world's greatest forger," and before the excitement was over the notorious Elia Volpi and several other over-shrewd dealers found themselves fined, exposed, and once more in possession of carloads of spurious sculpture. Sculptor Dossena remained within the law. He never sold his work direct to museum or collector, never, so far as investigators could discover, pretended that they were anything but his own work. Nor did he make money. Dealers paid...
...exhibit includes two manuscripts of letters written by Lamb to the writer of a book on young mens' manners, signed "Elia," and a first edition of "King and Queen of Hearts," dated...