Word: hostessing
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...might well have been president had she not preferred to stick to her first love, studying and teaching history. The only daughter of William Howard Taft, Helen was an undergraduate at Bryn Mawr when, at the age of 18, she was called to serve as her father's hostess in the White House. Three years later she went back to take her bachelor's degree, followed by graduate study at Yale, marriage to a Yale historian, and finally a job at Bryn Mawr. She had an alarming habit of mislaying spectacles, important documents and salary checks...
...this fond biography of her grandmother. Author Ellin Mackay Berlin tells how Louise made the leap from being a tenement child to becoming the 19th century's hostess with the mostes'. The child of a Manhattan barber and his seamstress wife. Louise used to deliver her mother's embroidery to the fine houses on Washington Square and St. John's Park. Her one ambition was to break into that glittery world and call it her own. She made it. Today more and more social climbing is merely the ascent from one suburban foothill to a slightly...
...outset of Hallmark Hall of Fame's production of There Shall Be No Night, Katharine Cornell posed grandly before the camera in an "eggplant-colored chiffon velvet hostess gown" by Valentina and said to Charles Boyer: "Say something thrilling, Karoly. Something profound." That was quite an order for even so formidable a talent as Boyer's, considering the staggering handicaps of the script. In his 90-minute TV adaptation of the Robert E. Sherwood play, Radio Writer Morton (The Eternal Light] Wishengrad shed little light on the character of the Nobel Prizewinning medical scientist who has a hard...
...Playhouse go" matronly Party Giver Perle Mesta was telling everybody in Hollywood last week. "You'll feel sorry for me." Perle was right, but for the wrong reasons. She had hoped to de-emphasize her reputation as a gay social lioness. Instead, in her first TV biography, The Hostess with the Mostes', Party Girl Perle was caught in a clicheé-ridden gusher that coated with crude her life as oil and machine tools heiress, society matriarch, diplomatic envoy and social worker. Young Evelyn Rudie and veteran Shirley Booth wrestled hopelessly with Perle's hoked...
...Hostess was the firstes' Playhouse go show since the program won a deserved and unprecedented six Emmy Awards. If its reputation had been based on a show like last week's, Playhouse go would not even have been invited to the party...