Word: elsas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exhibition of how he thought a hotel should be opened for business-and publicity. To 300 of the biggest wigs he could find, he sent invitations to his hotel-warming. In planes, automobiles and 14 private railroad cars they trooped in-Chase National Bank Chairman Winthrop Aldrich, Bing Crosby, Elsa Maxwell, Attorney General Tom Clark, the Duke & Duchess of Windsor (who arrived with 14 pieces of luggage to get them through their three-day stay), many another practitioner of the arts, professions and leisure-by-the-numbers...
...harried bloodhound, Ray Milland is as surefooted as ever. Laughton falls to with relish on the great chunks of deep-dish villainy that the script feeds him. Elsa Lanchester (Mrs. Laughton, offscreen) does a good bit of broad comedy as an emancipated artist with four children and no husband...
...Many women, as well as men, are physically clean," mused Columnist Elsa Maxwell rather abruptly, "and although they may bathe twice a day they somehow fail to look any cleaner than if they hadn't bathed. Now why does this particularity exist in the human race?" She didn...
...snarled Sinclair Lewis, "is, to my mind ... a pathetic demonstration of sycophants. ... I wish the British would test our ridiculous national sub servience by offering a few of their hollow titles in the American open market . . . just to see who would leap at the chance to buy one." Columnist Elsa Maxwell reported that Author John Gunther (Inside U.S.A.) had told her he was reading Thucydides' Peloponnesian War "to learn all about modern politics and modern war." Added Elsa: "Maybe I didn't grab my old Thucydides that night...
...over $20,000. The listening audience swelled to more than 20 million. The mailbag bulged to 10,000 letters a day. The March of Dimes (a donation with a letter is suggested as the price of admission to the contest) collected something like $125,000. Listeners brightly guessed Elsa Maxwell, Maude Adams, Sister Kenny, Tallulah Bankhead, Mary Pickford, Mary Garden. But still nobody guessed right. Last week Miss Hush tried to spill the beans...