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...Beau" Nash, a sort of combination of Elsa Maxwell and Ward McAllister in his day, "made" Bath. In 1705 he found the town squalid and cramped, the famous mineral baths (started by the Romans) badly run. Worst of all, there was no place for the fashionable to dance except the bowling green, and it was frequented by swaggering armed swells who unsheathed their swords at the slightest affront to honor...
...Cannes, Columnist Elsa Maxwell helped Producer Jack Warner clean up at chemin de fer. "I was sitting . . . by his side . . . and I started to move," wrote Elsa. "He showed the only signs of superstition I've ever seen in him. 'Don't uncross your legs, honey,' Jack warned." She said she stuck it out for an hour and Jack won a million francs...
...Well, the blow has fallen," mourned Elsa Maxwell, columning from the Riviera. "Maurice Chevalier is going to be married." But even if he was,* Elsa could bear up. There were lots of lovely people on the Riviera, many from Hollywood...
...night Elsa threw a slumming party in Antibes (Darryl Zanuck and Rita were along), ordered dinner at the popular bistro Félix au Port. The table was on the sidewalk, and almost at once a crowd gathered. When it turned out that they were not autograph hunters but merely folk grumbling at the sight of a lavish dinner, the party moved inside...
...Duchess of Windsor was beginning to worry a little about the outlook in the housekeeping situation, she confided to Columnist Elsa Maxwell. "I think," said the Duchess, "I'll eventually take two rooms somewhere, do my own washing and cooking...