Word: elsas
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...Elsa Schiaparelli peered into the future, said of skirt-lengths: "It always depends on the legs...
Louisa (Edith Barrett) likes to put frogs on the dining-room table and make them jump into the marmalade pot. Emily (Elsa Lanchester) collects dead birds and tidies up the river banks. Ellen (Ida Lupino) manages to keep her sanity, except for one regrettable lapse in which she garrotes her employer: pretty, bewigged, aging Miss Fiske (Isobel Elsom), a onetime actress whose onetime suitors have pensioned...
...print, unfortunately, Elsa is not so entertaining as when bubbling in her energetic flesh...
...newcomer to the U.S. is the syndicate which signed up Elsa. Called Press Alliance, Inc., it is headed by Paul Winkler, a slight, 43-year-old, U.S.-admiring Frenchman who, until the Nazis arrived, operated Europe's largest feature syndicate (Opera Mundi). A sort of French version of Hearst's King Features (whose representative Winkler was for years), Opera Mundi differed from U.S. syndicates in two respects: It also acted as a literary agency and publisher of magazines. It had the largest women's magazine (Confidences: circ. approximately 1,000,000), three children's magazines, including...
Except for Elsa's column Press Alliance thus far has acquired only syndicate small fry, notably a South American comic strip called G. Whiskers. But Press Alliance has started patiently to expand along the lines of its Blitzkrieged French predecessor. So far Winkler has sold U.S. publishers three books by Genevieve Tabouis, Pierre Lazareff, H.R. Knickerbocker...