Word: hostess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head like a charming Billiken. This hair dress and the Claire glamour manage to keep fluttering this airy nothing of a play. It concerns a Parisian lady who has left her overbearing banker husband for a small apartment of her own. There she unexpectedly finds herself playing unwilling hostess to a Communist fugitive (Walter Siezak, ingratiating young hero of Music in the Air). He is supposed to be a German Red who has taken a potshot at Adolf Hitler. It appears to be a breach of party discipline to shoot individuals, but he hopes to be forgiven on the grounds...
...square meals a day, 59-franc shirts and a change of socks open the Communist's eyes to "soft living." The lady takes to reading Red literature. When her husband uncovers the situation, the lacy makes a decision. The Communist is on his way to Toulouse and his hostess is preparing to join in his political vaga bondage by ordering herself a pair of stout walking shoes...
...arty 57th Street has devoted itself to the more advanced of the socially acceptable left-wing artists. Because famed British Critic Paul Nash has referred to him as the successor to Matisse and Picasso; because he has been called a master of impressionistic line; because the people whom Hostess Elsa Maxwell invites to her parties have decided that he is "too, too divine,'' the chaste grey walls of the Valentine Gallery were last week given over to a one-man show of the later drawings of James Grover Thurber. Gallerygoers, stepping sideways like crabs, passed from frame...
...Washington last week the atmosphere fairly oozed with friendly accord. There were conferences, teas, trips through the 4,500,000 fingerprint library at the Department of Justice, visits to its criminal laboratories. No small part in helping effect an entente cordiale was performed by Hostess Cecilia Waterbury Cummings, a lively brunette with gracious ways and a glib...
...fought to have the part sung by Soprano Georgette Leblanc. One night in Paris Debussy's young wife Lili wanted the composer to attend a rich woman's dinner party, asked Mary Garden to exert her influence. Debussy decided to go. A year later he left Lili for the hostess who was better able to provide for his exquisite tastes...