Word: mendl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sahibs, which was on his property. But the romance faltered, and Lydia Hill, wearing a large diamond ring, returned to London and was killed in the blitz. "I am heartbroken," said the Sultan, who had followed her to Britain. A few days later he met reddish-blonde Rumanian Marcella Mendl and married her, explaining: "It was love at first sight...
Died. Sir Charles Mendl, 86, Britain's longtime (1926-40) Paris diplomatic press attache who was known as a mystery-cloaked, behind-the-scenes diplomat; after long illness; in Paris. After the death of his U.S.-born hostess-interior decorator wife, Elsie de Wolfe Mendl, who lorded it over the international smart set for decades by splashing lavish parties in Paris, Beverly Hills and Versailles, he married (at 79) a 37-year-old violinist, who died a year...
Buoyed by her current rave notices, she will not predict when she will retire, although she already has her final play picked out: Cockadoodle Daisy, written for her by husband Charlie, who drew on the life of Lady Elsie Mendl, the acrobatic nonagenarian decorator who wore her hair blue and regularly stood on her head. "But I'm not ready yet," says Actress Hayes. "After all, I'm only 57, and Lady Mendl lived to be over 90. I think I'll put it off for a while...
...Major General Sir Ibrahim ibni Almarhum Sultan Abu Bakar, better known as the Sultan of Johore, began a weeklong, million-dollar party to celebrate his 82nd birthday and 60 years of rule on the throne of the Malay state. During the festivities, his Sultanah, a Rumanian beauty named Marcella Mendl, who is the Sultan's fourth wife, will be crowned. Pounding the floor with his silver saber for emphasis, the Sultan got things going with a surprise statement attacking his own independence-minded government and supporting British imperialism: "Where are your warships, your planes and your armies to withstand...
...away while gendarmes shooed off the girls-Miss France of 1954, Miss France of 1955. and Miss Paris of 1955. Said Family Man Wagner: "Well, that's Paris." Father's Home Town. In Paris the mayor shopped, dined with the Duchess of Westminster, assured Octogenarian Sir Charles Mendl that he looked younger than ever, and delighted French haberdashers by wearing a pleated shirt with his dinner jacket. He was impressed with Paris' anti-horn-honking regulation, but feared that such a rule could not be enforced in New York without extra police...