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Back in the cabin, pretty Hostess Vina K. Ferguson moved up & down the aisle, settling the passengers for the night. She checked the seating list. The bald, bespectacled Frenchman nodding in his seat was Pierre N. Dreyfus, son of the late Captain Alfred Dreyfus whose false conviction for treason to France outraged the world 52 years ago. The older man was Herman Koegel, native of Rudnik, Poland. In New York his wife and daughter waited for their first reunion since the Gestapo snatched him from them and his small business in Köpenick, Germany, one night...
...Dolly Madison, famed White House hostess and brunette wife of the fourth President of the U.S., blonde Ginger makes no effort to recreate the "fine, portly, buxom dame" described by Washington...
...only the Will-of-the-People but also True Love. As the wife of Secretary of State Madison, Dolly (Ginger), looking far too regal ever to have been Fred Astaire's hoofing partner, sweeps into the White House to act as widower President Jefferson's official hostess. There the film leaves her-happily rehearsing her future role as the nation's real First Lady...
Ready for the Republican renaissance was a Washington hostess who had been there all along: Alice Roosevelt Longworth. The onetime "Princess Alice," who came out at the White House, was married to Speaker Nicholas Longworth, and dominated capital society when it was mostly Republican, lived alone now at 62 in her mansion that "smells of 1910." But she had been no recluse. Her "gatherings" had continued; only the publicity had failed. So her plans, said she, were simply "to continue with business as usual, pleasure as usual-whatever you want to call...
...Bites, Say Nothing. But most etiquettists were deadly serious in wising-up social aspirants: "[Do not] seize ladies by the waist." Never let your hostess "know that you have found . . . insects in your bed." If you "throw down a waiter loaded with splendid cut glass . . . you should not. .. appear the least mortified...