Word: elsas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marshall Field III held the first Scavenger Hunt in London. Songwriter Cole Porter organized several in Paris. Last week energetic Elsa Maxwell, plump and practiced social impresario, introduced it to Manhattan as a new socialite sport. Occasion was a Hallowe'en charity party for the Maternity Center Association at the Waldorf-Astoria. From mid-evening until midnight 199 excited socialites scurried around the town trying to filch the assorted trophies demanded by Hunt Mistress Maxwell...
...subeditor, the encouragement of Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, and with the backing of the late U. S. backer, John Quinn. he started the transatlantic review. A helpful man, he was much put upon by the polyglot bohemians. He once made an appointment at the British Embassy for Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhofen; she showed up "simply dressed in a brassière of milktins connected by dog chains and wearing on her head a plum-cake...
...preternatural vitality and if he had happened to look otherwise, it would merely have seemed that Holbein had been inaccurate. The whole picture, directed by Alexander Korda, reflects the validity of his acting: it is a shiny, caustic, understanding portrait of a personage as comprehensible as he is extraordinary. Elsa Lanchester (Mrs. Charles Laughton) does, next to her husband, the cleverest acting in the picture. Binnie Barnes as Catherine Howard, Merle Oberon as Anne Boleyn and Wendy Barrie as Jane Seymour, despite their appalling names, are lovely looking. Good shot: Henry, between wives and deeply bored, spitting out a mouthful...
Married. Philip Mattiessen Chancellor, 25, $9,000,000 heir of the late Illinois zinc man F. W. Mattiessen; and one Elsa Klecker, 28, Viennese; in London. The groom's 1927 elopement marriage to Helen Carroll Baines, daughter of a Pennsylvania Railroad vice president, was annulled...
...faculty?" the officer asks Elsa...