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Died. Marguerite Skirvin Tyson, 58, sister of famed Washington Hostess Perle Mesta, coheiress of an oil fortune, a warm, friendly woman who collected French antiques, raised champion miniature poodles, and tended to the details of the parties that she quietly co-hostessed with her sister; in Washington...
...pianga), but instead of the grand manner and absolute command of style so necessary for Alessandro Scarlatti or Cherubini, she provided a good deal of hand-clasping and those imploring looks to the heavens which ought to be banned forever from the concert stage. In Rossini's Non Piu mesta (from La Cenerentola)--and Miss Berganza has something of a reputation as a Rossini specialist--one again heard impeccable vocalism which managed to be utterly unexciting. Though Non Piu mesta is one of the silliest both Giulietta Simionato and Victoria de los Angeles are still able to transform what...
Search for Power. Betty caught on as Washington's diarist in 1945. She rode to, the crest of capital society in the wake of Good Friend Perle Mesta. In the process, she built a strong reputation as a reporter...
...Washington's Colony Restaurant sat raven-haired Gwendolyn Detre de Surany Cafritz, all but unnoticed as she toyed with a martini, chain-smoked Kools, and lunched with her sister. Just four china-crammed tables away sat another longtime queen bee of Washington society, Perle Skirvin Mesta, the old hostess with the mostest. She had with her a single friend...
Presidents' wives and presidential families can always dominate Washington society. But they often haven't wanted to bother. Perle Mesta nailed down the top hostess title in Harry Truman's day because Bess Truman abdicated; in the Eisenhower years. Gwen Cafritz reigned because Mamie Eisenhower didn't care to. But Jacqueline Kennedy does care. Not since the time of Frances Cleveland, 65 years ago, has a First Lady cared nearly so much. And what she and Jack Kennedy care about is not the money and power that mattered in the Mesta-Cafritz days, but brains...