Word: hostess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...millionaire woman, the hostess, who will not now speak to Fast because "she considers me a renegade...
...Reprieve. Graham and his team left their mark on celebrities as well as on New York's anonymous multitudes. Box 31 at the Garden was held by crusade headquarters for visiting VIPs, and the Garden management itself reserved two boxes every night. Such disparate personalities as Perle ("Hostess with the Mostes' ") Mesta and Singer Ethel Waters came whenever they could. For Perle Mesta this meant some ten visits, "whenever I'm in New York. Billy is a perfectly marvelous man who is doing a great deal of good. I plan to give a dinner for him, though...
...Annie Get Your Gun; Van Johnson is set to play The Pied Piper of Hamelin; and Mickey Rooney brings his cultivated ham to Pinocchio. Maurice Evans will produce and star in Twelfth Night and Dial M for Murder for Hallmark Hall of Fame. Ex-Cinemoppet Shirley Temple acts as hostess and sometimes star of a new fairy-tale series, and NBC Opera Company will do Rigoletto, Die Meistersinger and Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites. Ed Wynn will get the first star-studded salute from Texaco Command Appearance, an hour-long series spotlighting big-time performers. Henry Saloman...
Died. Thelma Chrysler Foy, fiftyish, upper-crust society hostess and patron of the arts, daughter of the late automagnate Walter P. Chrysler, wife of Chrysler Director Byron C. Foy, repeatedly voted among the world's ten best-dressed women; of leukemia; in Manhattan...
Died. Clara Bell Walsh, 70-odd ("none of your business"), widow of St. Louis, Millionaire Julius S. Walsh Jr. (died 1922), lavish Manhattan hostess who had a suite in the Plaza Hotel for nearly 50 years, and whose intimate soirees of "200 or so" friends were the starting point of many a Broadway career; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...