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...Quaker, just back from seven years as a missionary in the Orient, and he thought himself pretty tolerant. But one day in 1925 Thomas Elsa Jones walked into a washroom at Columbia University, and found himself resenting the presence of a Negro, washing his hands. "My old feelings of superiority came back," he said, and he was alarmed. Jones ran into the Negro again in a German class, and discovered that the Negro knew more German than he did. "Soon we were playing handball together-and in less than a year I had accepted the presidency of Fisk University...
...years ago, the Service News showed that a picture billed with seductive hoopla by the Gaiety Theatre on Washington Street was really just the old (1939) Elsa Maxwell hit, "Hotel For Women," a staid enough piece by even Watch and Ward standards. While its policy is less consistent and less, salacious, the Majestic Theatre, too, is currently deceiving its audiences, though it isn't trying to get away with anything...
...Artists' Agent Leora Thompson one of the few women whose legs "fully reveal their soul." Said Gamologist Thompson: Eleanor's legs reveal "traveling dynamism"; Stripteuse Margie Hart's-"suppressed dignity"; pallid Cinemactress Gene Tierney's - "exotic desires"; Dancer Vera Zorina's-"dynamic magnetism"; Columnist Elsa Maxwell's fatted calves-"outraged complacency...
...superbly effective as the ailing, aging mistress of a huge plush-and-black-walnut New England mansion. A gay-dog only son and a sobersided professor-stepson (George Brent) make their home with her. Residents and visitors in her house include such odd or frightened people as a cook (Elsa Lanchester), a trained nurse (Sara Allgood), and a strangely inhibited young woman (Dorothy McGuire), who has been unable to speak a word since childhood...
...less than a month, the First Lady had I) entertained no Washington newswomen at a White House buffet supper; 2) gone to an ice show in the glittery Iridium Room of Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel; 3) lunched at the exclusive Colony Restaurant with Party-master Elsa Maxwell; 4) attended the opening of the Metropolitan Opera; 5) journeyed to Philadelphia with the President to see the Army-Navy football game...