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Kirsten Flagstad, 49, whose famed Wagnerian ho-yo-to-hos have not resounded in the Metropolitan Opera since she joined her husband in Nazi-held Norway four years ago, planned to return to the U.S. "to see my daughter [by a previous marriage - Mrs. Elsa Dusenberry of Bozeman, Mont.] if not to sing." Flagstad managed to keep herself politically neutral by refusing to sing for Nazi audiences, but her wealthy quisling husband, Henry Johansen, was less successful: his one-week imprisonment in a Gestapo concentration camp last February was described by Norwegian patriots as a "face-saving maneuver," during which...
...wrecking the conference were as dangerous as those who were determined to wisecrack about it. They heard Hedda Hopper cooing in a hotel lobby: "My dear, if this thing doesn't pick up pretty soon, it's going to be the dullest clambake ever held." They read Elsa Maxwell's astute comments on the Russians: "a bunch of magnificent he-men." They debated who was to blame-the officials who issued the credentials wholesale, or the newspapers that assigned the freaks...
Mutual, on conference eve, will play host to part of the U.S. delegation on its American Forum of the Air. In a later series of interviews it will try to present "every person in any way connected with the conference." Mutual's special correspondent: Elsa Maxwell...
...Elsa Maxwell, plump, professional party-planner turned columnist, was tickled when Photographer Leora Thompson assured her that she had an "exuberant"-looking leg. She exulted: "Really, it's not so bad. There may be a lot more of it than necessary, but. . . I don't know-any fat women with legs that can compare with mine...
...Elsa Maxwell, who never wears jewels at the smartly publicized parties she gives at others' expense, was judged in Manhattan's City Court to owe a $2,980.74 jewelry bill, ordered to fork over the $996.47 in her checking account to be applied against the judgment. Elsa said that she had helped sell a $30,000 emerald to Cinema Producer Jack Warner, took the $2,980.74 in jewelry instead of a commission. "There are dozens of society women," she said, "who sell jewels on commission...