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...expensive game. Young, dark-eyed Mrs. Grover Cleveland was the last White House mistress to exert social dominance (she frowned on the bustle and the bustle disappeared). The White House experienced a brief, last burst of gaiety when "Princess Alice" Roosevelt (now the widow of Speaker Nicholas Longworth) made her debut there and was serenaded wherever she went with Alice Blue Gown...
Killing. In her first week as editor, she dictated an editorial sneer at Alice Roosevelt Longworth, one of her society foes. "Put it on the front page," she ordered. "Mr. Hearst says that's the only place where people will read it." Circulation, wallowing at 61,000, soon doubled as Washingtonians grabbed the Herald to see whom or what Cissie would spit at next...
Most Madeira girls go to good colleges (favorites: Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr), marry comfortably, and send their daughters back to Madeira. Among past & present Madeirans: Paulina Longworth, Joan Morgenthau, Susan Saltonstall, Diana Hopkins, Laurette Soong (niece of Madame Chiang Kai-shek...
...Alices were breaking their arms. Washington's famed, acerb hostess, "Princess Alice" Roosevelt Longworth, 63, lost her footing in a butcher shop, landed hard, broke her left arm in two places and sprained her ankle. Blonde Cinemactress Alice Faye, 32, fell into a sunken living room at a Los Angeles party and broke her right...
Ready for the Republican renaissance was a Washington hostess who had been there all along: Alice Roosevelt Longworth. The onetime "Princess Alice," who came out at the White House, was married to Speaker Nicholas Longworth, and dominated capital society when it was mostly Republican, lived alone now at 62 in her mansion that "smells of 1910." But she had been no recluse. Her "gatherings" had continued; only the publicity had failed. So her plans, said she, were simply "to continue with business as usual, pleasure as usual-whatever you want to call...