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...imagine our feelings? And funny none of us thought how grand a target they made. They looked so peaceful and contented. . . ." The Martin Johnsons were waiting at Kisumu (on Lake Victoria) with a big Sikorsky, flew them to the Nairobi ranch, amazed them with a dinner that any U.S. hostess might have been proud of- cocktails and caviar, soup, fish, roast turkey (the best I ever tasted), tiny new fresh peas, potatoes, salad, ice cream with strawberries and coffee." The spell of Africa for Frederick Trubee Davison is of far longer standing than his short tenure of the museums presidency...
...Devil's in Love is a typical Foreign Legion picture, about a medical officer (Victor Jory) who, unjustly convicted of poisoning his major, escapes to a seaside town. After having a liaison with a handsome cabaret hostess (Vivienne Osborne), he meets and falls in love with the fiancee (Loretta Young) of his friend Captain Jean Fabien (David Manners). Bullets and fever, as is usually the case in French North Africa, presently improve the situation. A sick orderly confesses to killing the major, whom no one liked anyway. Fabien gets a bullet and a splendid funeral, at which his fiancee...
...This, which has almost nothing to do with the rest of the plot, concerns a strange dinner party at the Fletchers. One by one the guests are called away by drunkenness or domestic emergencies. The cook fights with the butler. The guest of honor sits down alone with his hostess. When it seems that nothing more can happen unless Joan Fletcher cuts herself with a butter knife, her husband strolls into the dining room and hands her a carton of gardenias...
...Warm Springs in her private car "Ranger," gave a number of parties aboard, served champagne copiously. One of the guests, Louis Ruppel, then correspondent for Patterson-&-McCormick's New York Daily News, now Assistant Commissioner of Narcotics, made some critical observation of Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson. Said his hostess...
...always properly dazzled by her social display. Her only serious setback occurred in 1893 during the World's Fair. The Infanta Eulalie of Spain, whose spun glass dress of 2,500,000 threads weighed only one pound, attended one of her levees but curtly refused to meet her hostess- "that innkeeper's wife." For this famed snub Mrs. Palmer soon made up by having King Edward VII at her London home. Chicago still believes that Mrs. Palmer spurned an offer to become the Queen of Serbia...