Word: hostessing
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...from the Empire Room of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, the show is aimed at matrons with better-than-average bankrolls, is as sedulously shallow as a column by Lucius Beebe. Clearly responsible for the tenor of the Luncheon is Actress Ilka Chase, who not only serves as aerial hostess but writes the scripts as well. Last week before a free-feeding audience of 50, Luncheon at the Waldorf was fluttering smartly through its third 13-week period on the air under the sponsorship of Camel Cigarettes...
...Hostess Chase's scripts are full of chitsy-chatsy on what the smart little child will wear, how to get along as a weekend guest, the importance of wearing hats that please men. Included in the verbal menu is a resume of Miss Chase's gay activities since she was last on the air-luncheon with Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolf), cocktails with Condé Nast, dinner with the Grand Duchess Marie...
...serious business of the occasion was left to the ladies. The Governor's sister and official hostess, Mrs. Francis Hastings Hastings-Brooke, and Lady Kennedy-Purvis, wife of the commander of the Royal Navy's American and West Indies squadron, advanced. To the Duke, as was due a member of the royal family, they made curtsies; to the Duchess, a member of the peerage but not legally of the royal family, they bowed and gave their hands...
...Last month she invited Mrs. Ericksen to the White House. There the astounded Mrs. Ericksen was met by the President's wife and members of the A. Y.C., who straightway whelmed her with arguments. Mrs. Ericksen spent the night, went home, wrote a "thank you" note to her hostess, added: "But my opinion of the American Youth Congress has not changed." Retorted Mrs. Roosevelt, who is not easily downed: "May I come and speak to your community?" and set a date...
...hostess of Fontainebleau decided she needed some big-league help. A constant reader of the New York Herald Tribune's conservative Columnist Mark Sullivan, she wrote to him, emitting an Ericksenian cry of distress. When Mrs. Roosevelt arrived at Fontainebleau, wearing flame-colored chiffon, a necklace of sharks' teeth, great was her surprise to encounter Mr. Sullivan, in white tie & tails...