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...made a white-tulle-and-camellia debut at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. In the receiving line, she accompanied herself by humming They're Either Too Young Or Too Old, did much of her handshaking with such oldsters as Morton Downey, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Westbrook Pegler, Elsa Maxwell, William Bullitt...
...Atlantic crossings. One night he heard Tito Schipa sing an aria and decided to be an opera singer. By 1936 he wangled an au dition at the Metropolitan, but when he discovered the small size of his starting salary, he gave in to an offer to appear in the Elsa Maxwell-Leonard Sillman Who's Who. Who's Who did not turn out to be Sonny. He played another musical, began singing in nightclubs like Manhattan's Glass Hat, Famous Door, and Beachcomber. He might still be 1'ving on his larynx if a friend...
...Hollywood, Raffles has met Walt Disney, Charlie McCarthy, David Selznick, many other bigwigs. Elsa Maxwell gave a party for the bird. Paramount signed Raffles up for eight weeks at $3,500 to play opposite Dorothy Lamour in her forthcoming Rainbow Island. Qn the lot Raffles' dressing room, complete with nameplate, is next to Dorothy...
Gloria Swanson, No. 1 fashion plate among the silent cinema sirens, gave Interviewer Elsa Maxwell her considered opinion on the reason she had always had to play seductresses: "Because I was quiet, people always thought I knew more about life and love than...
...Elsa Shore, soubrette...