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Party-giving Perle Mesta arrived in Moscow for a visit to the Soviet Union. Asked her profession by a Russian customs inspector, the ex-Minister to Luxembourg replied: "I have none...
Last week Perle Mesta got her walking papers. A loyal Democrat, she had submitted her resignation as U.S. Minister to Luxembourg to President Eisenhower three months ago. But still, his acceptance seemed rather hasty, Perle thought. In a cablegram asking her to represent him at the forthcoming marriage of Grand Duke Jean, heir to the crown of Luxembourg, and Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium, Ike had added a postscript, setting April 13 as the dismissal date. "I was expecting to be fired only about June," Perle told weeping staffers. "It was a great shock, being so sudden...
Call Me Madam was a good topical musical. Now as an historical motion picture, it is even better. For Call Me Madam was filmed as a part of the past--1951, when Harry Truman was entrenched in the White House and Perle Mesta rampant in Luxembourg. As contemporary satire, the Broadway version lacked bite; now, as a glossy tuneful bit of history, the film lacks nothing...
Call Me Madam is "a story of the past-1951. It takes place in two mythical countries. One is called Lichtenburg-the other, the United States of America." As the show begins, folksy Washington Hostess Mrs. Sally Adams (Ethel Merman), a lady not unlike Minister to Luxembourg Perle Mesta, is taking her oath as U.S. Ambassador to the Grand Duchy of Lichtenburg. In Lichtenburg, almost everybody-including Princess Vera-Ellen, Foreign Minister George Sanders and Press Attaché Donald O'Connor-seems willing to break into a song or a dance at the drop of a cue. There...
...Harry Truman's Minister to Luxembourg, Perle Mesta kept old friendships warm on both sides of the political fence. Her latchkey was always out for her good friends Ike & Mamie Eisenhower, who frequently dropped over to get away from the routine at SHAPE. Last week a Washington reporter asked Minister Mesta what she would be doing the day after inauguration. Replied Perle hopefully: "I now don't know what I'll be doing. I love Luxembourg, though. I just love Luxembourg. I've had lots of offers . . . but right now all I can think about...