Word: elsas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elsa Maxwell is a stoutish lady who has won something of a national reputation for throwing gay parties...
Thus, in his first "Publisher's Notebook" column for his newly purchased Chicago Daily News, dynamic John S. Knight launched a blast at civilian complacency in general, at exuberant Elsa Maxwell's recent Hollywood "Victory Party," celebrating the liberation of France, in particular. Concluded Publisher Knight: "I'm afraid it made me retch" (TIME...
Last week in her own syndicated column, "Elsa Maxwell's Party Line," which is printed not by 20 but by 35 U.S. newspapers, the "World's Greatest Hostess" cracked back: "Speak for yourself, John." Declared she: "In ordinary times, such notice . . . would be flattering. Today it reflects something peculiar in the sense of proportion of certain segments of the Fourth Estate. ... I pit my record against yours on the fight for freedom. My party . . . had behind it one single purpose: to bring every influential force in this country into a liberal, intelligent front against reaction, and for both...
...exhibit was staged at the Wildenstein Galleries by New York City's Quaker Emergency Service (local and foreign relief). The artists had been rounded up by the famed Paris dressmaker in absentia, Mme. Elsa Schiaparelli, and consisted largely of well-known European expatriates...
...three: Philadelphia Bulletin (circ. 662,634), Hearst's New York Journal-American (circ. 641,194), Chicago Herald-American (circ. 471,886). *First "Notebook" in the News was a blast at civilian complacency as illustrated by Elsa Maxwell's Hollywood "Victory Party," pictured in LIFE. Excerpts: "Youthful Judy Garland had everyone in tears when she sang The Last Time I Saw Paris. Of course, Judy has never actually seen Paris, but after a few cocktails, what the hell. . . . Yes, Elsa, it must have been a wonderful party. I am sure you thought it was just too, too divine...