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...hundred ninety reservations have been made for the dinner, at which the University Instrumental Clubs will entertain. Mrs. Baxter, wife of J. P. Baxter 3rd, associate professor of History and Master of Adams House, will be hostess to the patronesses at the dinner...
...sound oi. It is with one of these etymological freaks, a very pretty one called Madeleine McGonegal (Dorothy Hall), that Child of Manhattan by Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable) is concerned. Miss McGonegal comes from a disadvantaged home in a neighborhood which she calls "Greenpernt." She is a dance hall hostess in a "jernt" named Loveland. At Loveland she meets a rich, self-contained young man who has come to see to what uses his property is being put. He takes her home, slips a $1,000 bill in her stocking, and soon after they have an "apperntment" at his pent...
...young high school teacher, her culinary triumphs came to the attention of Harry Gordon Selfridge, then manager of Marshall Field & Co., who put her in charge of the store's restaurant. After her reputation spread, she founded her own catering firm, directed other restaurants. But as hostess in her own home Mrs. Moody was most famed. Even after her husband died in 1910, such writers as John Masefield, Rabindranath Tagore, Padraic Colum, James Stephens continued to come for her food...
...lacking in the cinematic version of Tomorrow and Tomorrow. This is a matter of mood rather than incident, for the story remains unchanged. An unhappy wife, eager to have children and bored with her sterile husband's sporting preoccupations, gets a solution of sorts by being more than a hostess to a celebrated psychiatrist who visits their town. Eight years later, when his child is ill, the psychiatrist comes back to cure him, then suggests to the wife that they leave together. She, sensing the disaster which this would entail, prefers the personal catastrophe of watching his departure from...
...Vosburgh was hostess to the club members at her home on Brattle Street, Cambridge...