Word: hostess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like Paris surrounded by the beauties, Vice President Curtis last week decided what lady should sit second highest at the state dinner for Prime Minister MacDonald at the White House on Monday night. He decided for Lady Isabella Howard, wife of the British Ambassador, and against his sister-hostess, Mrs. Edward Everett Gann...
...actually aware of the presence of ungenerosity, ill-will and malice." Commented Mrs. Robert Patterson Lament, wife of the Secretary of Commerce, who entertained Count Keyserling last year in Chicago: "If he disliked Chicago . . . I think the fault must have been with him." Commented another Chicago Keyserling hostess: "I rather think he wrote what he wrote ... to attract attention...
...players trained to understand the camera. The voices come out clearly and naturally, not yet as clearly as real people talking, but modulated so that you forget the sound device. Best shots: Norma Shearer wringing a proposal from Basil Rathbone; Norma Shearer stealing back into her room with her hostess' pearls...
Simple was the rest of the story-only the happy ending remained. For, much as Hostess Patton may at first have questioned the story of riches and position to which this middle-aged (Mr. Graustein is 43) suitor referred, she found that the unbelievable was true, that the incredible was a fact. One day (March 14),* in El Paso Tycoon Graustein and Hostess Patton were married, and from Roseland's hostesses the fairest flower is gone...
...three-a-day, her strong voice somehow manages to make trashy melodies sound like folk-songs. She makes even more noise than usual in this picture but without the effect she gets when she is closer to her audience. She is handicapped by her role as a night-club hostess, by bad songs, by a ridiculous story about her priggish daughter's love-affair with a bibulous millionaire. Long before the rich young man apologizes, the daughter stops being snobbish, and Miss Tucker spreads her thick pink arms to embrace both of them, it is apparent that Honky Tank...