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...Baker home. Guest list: small. Chicago's outstanding debutante balls-of-the-week were two: Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Watson Armour (meats) and Mr. & Mrs. Walter Radcliffe Kirk (he recently sold his soap company to Procter & Gamble) gave a joint, lavish party at the Blackstone for their daughters Elsa Armour and Beatrice Kirk; Mr. & Mrs. Gustavus Franklin Swift (meats...
Most of the time the tousle-headed man laughed also. But occasionally his eyes looked frightened, his left hand opened and shut nervously. Then the quiet woman would lean toward him, pat his hand. She, Frau Elsa Einstein Einstein, knew that the world must continue making its legend about this small man, her double cousin to whom she has been married for 14 years.∙ She knows that popular imagination makes of him a hero who works in a solitary study mixing mathematical equations to get Truth as old-time alchemists mixed base metals to obtain Gold. She also knows...
...Elsa Maxwell, rich California socialite who lives in Paris and entertains amusingly on her visits to Manhattan, gave her annual Manhattan costume ball. The invitations bade 350 guests come dressed as their "opposites." Miss Maxwell rigged herself in pantaloons and high stiff collar as Herbert Hoover. Actress Ina Claire went as Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning, her escort was disguised as the Bishop's current antagonist, ex-Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey (TIME, Dec. 15). Dancer Adele Astaire thought she was the opposite of an angel. Lady Ribblesdale went as Charlie Chaplin, Banker Mortimer Schiff as Oscar Wilde. Two socialite matrons...
...world's most famed physicists, all Nobel prize winners, were to meet in the U. S. at California Institute of Technology ("Caltech") in Pasadena for a scientific chat. One of the three, Dr. Albert Einstein, has a long way to travel. On Dec. 2, he, his wife Frau Elsa Einstein and his research assistant Dr. Walter Mayer (TIME, Oct. 27) will go aboard the Belgenland, have a month's boat ride to California via Panama. Frau Einstein will act as guard to keep the public from annoying her husband, will not permit him to go ashore...
...Author. Robert M. Coates, 33, is a Yale graduate (1919), onetime left-wing litterateur (contributor to Broom, transition, Gargoyle). He is married to Sculptress Elsa Kirpal, lives in Manhattan, but is building a house, "almost single-handed," near Brewster, N. Y. Just over six feet tall, burly, shy, he has gentle blue eyes, a mop of red hair, his clothes flap on him. He throws an ice pick at a bull's-eye painted on a barn door with persistence and accuracy. He has written one other book: The Eater of Darkness. He works on the editorial staff...