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Innocence and Bliss. The show and the crowds would have pleased the Modern Museum's prime founder, Lizzie ("Lillie") P. Bliss, late, wealthy daughter of Drygoodsman Cornelius N. Bliss. Genial hostess of a teetotaling salon, Founder Bliss was one of the greatest art collectors produced by Manhattan society's latter-day Age of Innocence...
...Shameful and Shocking." Jimmy Cromwell, son of Philadelphia's rich & famed hostess, Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury, had not been reticent about pleading his case in court. His basic philosophy: "I don't believe that a marriage license alone suffices to keep a woman in love with her husband. What happened to me can happen in the best regulated families...
...Doris Duke Cromwell appeared undisturbed by the fact that her divorce is good in Nevada, no good in New Jersey, questionable in 46 states and the District of Columbia. Manhattan gossip columnists reported that she had joined the United Seamen's Service, was training as a hostess, might be assigned to duty overseas...
Woman of Talents. Stockholm society knows Mme. Kollontay as a slightly reconstructed aristocrat, an unusual linguist, a superb hostess. Her chinchilla cape makes women's eyes dilate; her little dinners make gourmets' eyes contract. As Soviet Ambassador to Sweden, where she has been stationed since 1930, she practices diplomacy with patience, wit and sagacity...
...gauntlet was down. From now on, no Hollywood hostess was safe. Try as she might to keep her Max Factor powder dry, her very next swimming-pool party might become tomorrow's ideological battleground...