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Married. Sir Charles Mendl, 80, onetime British diplomatic press attache and widower of the U.S.-born international society hostess, Elsie de Wolfe Mendl; and Mme. Yvonne Riley, 37, Belgian-born violinist; he for the second time, she for the third; in Paris...
...Paris, Sir Charles Mendl, 79, whose late wife, Elsie de Wolfe Mendl, ruled the international smart set with a queenly hand, announced that he had wooed and won a 35-year-old Parisian brunette, Mme. Yvonne Riley. The secret of his success? "Young men talk too much about themselves. Old men don't, or shouldn't. I let women talk about themselves, and they love...
Died. Elsie de Wolfe Mendl (Lady Mendl), eightyish, mauve-decade Broadway actress (who numbered Ethel Barrymore among her understudies), haute monde interior decorator, international-set partygiver; in Versailles, France. She married Sir Charles Mendl after a long spinsterhood, lived into a fabulously sprightly old age, delighted gossip columnists with handstands at parties and hair dyes ranging from pink to vivid green...
...international smart set's Lady Mendl, eightyish, tempted the palates of Vogue readers with her own recipes for some dishes that mother never even thought of making, e.g., Kidneys Ali-Bab ("brown one pound of veal kidneys . . . set aflame with a glass of brandy...
...Lady Mendl, 91, tireless international smart-setter, tried her own therapy when her doctor ordered her to bed for ten days. In a pink satin bed jacket and diamonds, she presided over several little dinner parties in her candlelit Hollywood bedroom. To small tables, her guests (Hedda Hopper, Clifton Webb, Fanny Brice, et al.) brought picnic baskets. Blooming under the treatment, Lady Mendl was ready this week to hop a boat for Europe...