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...Société has been more direct. It sent out a cry of distress to shrewd, dapper René de Léon, who headed the company for 14 successful years (1922-36), is now a Hollywood hotelman (The Garden of Allah). Said he: "They asked me if I could find people here who would want to put money in to buy shares. They hoped I would return at the head of a wagonload of American gold. [The manager] came to me and said, 'Tiens! My friend, give me the best juice of your brains...
...Hotelman Young's troubles started fast. Many (45%) of the guests had barely been shown their rooms before they were clamoring to be changed to different quarters. Society Reporter Igor Cassini (Hearst's Cholly Knickerbocker) and his new wife (Elizabeth Darrach Waters) walked into their suite and found it occupied by Cassini's ex-wife ("Bootsie" McDonnell-also a columnist), who had been ushered in by mistake. (They compromised on adjoining suites.) Kaiser-Frazer's Joe Frazer and Otis & Co.'s Cyrus Eaton, currently feuding over K-F's stock troubles, spent the time...
Robbed: Sari Gabor ("Zsazsa") Hilton, emerald-eyed, diamond-bright Miss Hungary of 1936, estranged wife of Hotelman Conrad Hilton (New York's Plaza, Los Angeles' Town House, Chicago's Palmer House); in the mirrored boudoir of her Manhattan penthouse. Jewel-&-fur-bearing Mrs. Hilton (who once told tabloid reporters that unidentified villains had kept her in "continuous slumber" for six months with mysterious drugs) now reported to police that a tall stranger in a grey suit, fedora, pigskin gloves and dark glasses had tied her and her maid to a love seat and made off with...
...Parisian characters in his three-year-old What Became of Anna Bolton was a "Madame Ritz . . . widow of the great César Ritz. . . ." He called her "a great woman," but he let her die. Last week alive-&-kicking Marie Ritz,* 79-year-old widow of the luxury-hotelman, sued Bromfield and his publishers for invasion of privacy. She noted that she had been "portrayed as dying," complained she was "being subjected to ridicule, humiliation, embarrassment and annoyance ... all to her damage in the sum of One Hundred Thousand ($100,000) Dollars...
Last month, fast-stepping hotelman Conrad Hilton was buttonholed by the Puerto Rico Development Co., a government-backed organization. The Puerto Ricans wanted Connie Hilton to run a new beach hotel in tropical San Juan. Hilton was flattered, but wanted "an intelligent deal." Last week...