Word: elsas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alphand had to find a way to earn her living. Her friends had long admired her repertory of some 200 salty popular songs. Helped by a group of them (Lady Mendl, Henry Bernstein, Elsa Maxwell), she began appearing at a French hangout called Le Petit Palais. Among Manhattan's Francophile intelligentsia, her nostalgic music was sensational. Man hattan's Liberty Music Shop issued an album of Alphand recordings, quickly sold 1,000 copies...
NOTE: Detachment stenog, Elsa Pearlstein, popped the bullseye very effectively that day in practice; she had the entire range repair crew very attentive for a while-from a conservative distance...
...mostly about war or politics. He reads biography and history, plays a deadly game of gin rummy. Unmarried, he spends most of his time with a coterie of very close friends: Pianist Horowitz, Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, Choregrapher George Balanchine and his dancing wife Vera Zorina, Arturo Toscanini and Elsa Maxwell. He dislikes popular music and makes no bones about...
...room done up in platinum; their Venetian palazzo, once inhabited by the Brownings, was the scene of fabulous parties featuring Porter's crony Edgar Montillion (Monty) Woolley. Porter invented an American couple named Fitch and stuffed the society columns with accounts of their European triumphs. At one point Elsa Maxwell got her licks in by announcing that Mr. Fitch had left Porter's party for hers. During these years Porter wrote many of his future song hits but - snapping his manicured fingers at the theater - merely played them for his friends...
Chatty Columnist Elsa Maxwell's amiability crumpled under the strain of Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who, she found, "has taken up the cudgels in defense of women." Gritted Elsa: "Now, Mr. Pegler is a Freudian study ... too much protest is often an unconscious expression of too much love-and vice versa. If this ambivalence of emotion is true-as it seems to be-Westbrook is certainly madly in love with Mrs. Roosevelt. . . . But since Westbrook has turned his loving eye on women, watch out. The Pegler libido . . . turns hot & cold. . . . Personally, girls, I think we had better continue standing...