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...welcome advice of wealth. But Josette was a handful, has been for the past month. She has teased and begged to be taken along, pirouetted on her pretty feet and left the Premier no choice. She went along last week, but only on three conditions laid down by M. Laval: Josette must ride from Paris to Havre in an ordinary coach, not in the Premier's private car; Josette must not appear at the official farewell administered by the Mayor of Havre; and aboard the lie de France Josette must not sit in the public rooms or walk...
...Mile Josette Laval from an American Friend of France...
Fortunately (in view of this avalanche of flowers) the Laval suite was large, largest on the He de France which also carried Miss Anne Morgan, Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Whitney Warren, Mme Suero (daughter of President Machado of Cuba) and Mile Reine Claudel (daughter of French Ambassador to the U. S. Paul Claudel) who chattered Washington pointers to Josette...
Deck chair gossips remarked that Mile Laval's complexion is as unusually dark as her father's; that she stains half her fingernails blood red; that she has a sports ensemble consisting of yellow crocodile shoes, a tip-tilted red hat, tight black woolen dress and Scotch plaid coat. "I send Mother a radiogram every day," confessed Josette, "to inform her of the state of Father's temper and health...
...Robert T. Pell While M. Laval was reasonably sure that he could manage Josette, the Premier was quite sure that he could not manage the U. S. Press, a horrid BUGABOO. What to do? The answer last week was Little Bob Pell, first U. S. citizen ever appointed press contact man by a French Premier...