Word: mendl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pours this boiling vitality into office work, as lavishly over minor details as major crises. All of each evening, until a normal 3 a.m., she keeps right on working-at parties. The only thing that can keep her away from a party given by Elsa Maxwell, Lady Mendl or Cobina Wright Sr. or Barbara Hutton Grant or Ouida Rathbone or Baron Rothschild is an earthquake, a flood, or possibly a runny nose. Her conversation is slick, spangled, witty, shot full of Colbyisms. Some of these are close to schoolgirlish, like "doll," meaning darling, for a man she likes; others...
...Lady Mendl, eightyish, ageless, international smart-setter, predicted great things for her wartime home, Hollywood. Said she: "Hollywood is the new kingdom of youth and ambition. . . . This is the new focal point of civilization. .. . Among the kings and queens of the future, the stars of Hollywood will be prominently enthroned...
Died. John McMullin, 54, chichi adopted son and escort of Cosmopolite Lady Mendl, European feature writer for Vogue until his repatriation in 1940, male stylist (The Well Dressed Man, As Seen By Him); after a heart attack; in San Francisco...
...very close to my heart. Some of my best parties were given there." Among the entertainers: Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Ballerina Alicia Markova, Funnyman Danny Kaye, Songstress Judy Garland. Cinemactor Charles Boyer (reciting La Marseillaise), Elsa herself (playing the Star-Spangled Banner). Among the guests: blue-haired Internationalist Lady Mendl, red-haired Greer Garson, black-haired Authoress Anita Loos, cigar-ash-grey-color haired Evalyn Walsh McLean (with her Hope diamond...
...Alphand had to find a way to earn her living. Her friends had long admired her repertory of some 200 salty popular songs. Helped by a group of them (Lady Mendl, Henry Bernstein, Elsa Maxwell), she began appearing at a French hangout called Le Petit Palais. Among Manhattan's Francophile intelligentsia, her nostalgic music was sensational. Man hattan's Liberty Music Shop issued an album of Alphand recordings, quickly sold 1,000 copies...