Word: elsas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston's Hotel Statler last week enigmatic little Dress Designer Elsa Schiaparelli, about to address the twelfth annual Boston Conference on Distribution, arched her back. "That man," she hissed, "tell him to stop smoking that cigar! The timbre of my voice-I shall not be able to speak." Tiptoeing up to the offending guest, flustered hosts persuaded trust-busting Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold to quash his stogie...
Women's adoption of the long, unfitted jacket as part of their so-called "style wardrobe" is a usurpation of the traditional privilege of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton men to wear their coats half-way down to their knees, Elsa Schiaparelli, the world's most famous fashion designer, admitted yesterday...
...Binnie Barnes in Red Peppers. Not so good were Constance Bennett and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in We Were Dancing. After watching his daughter go through her paces, Richard Bennett testily observed: "Connie was born an amateur, she always has been an amateur, and still is an amateur." Another amateur, Elsa Maxwell, giggled through Ways and Means, displaying her broad beam in a series of startling stoops...
European exiles who arrived last week to take up temporary residence in the U. S.: Elsa Schiaparelli, Parisian couturiere (to lecture and get some clothes-she "hasn't a hat to her name"); Madame Josef Beck, wife of Poland's onetime Foreign Minister (now "somewhere in Rumania"); ex-Empress Zita of Austria and her youngest daughter. Archduchess Elisabeth (more ex-royal children to follow later); French Composer Darius Milhaud (Le pauvrc Matelot) with his wife and 10-year-old son; Novelist Julian Green (The Closed Garden, The Dark Journey}, pessimistic Paris-born American who has preferred...
...Angeles, film society held war relief auctions. In San Francisco Elsa Maxwell gave a party, plugging Foyers du Soldat, incidentally plugging her motion picture The Lady and the Lug. Cinemactresses Constance Bennett, Dolores del Rio, Claudette Colbert were caught by an indiscreet cameraman, sorting old clothes...