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...what it used to be. For one thing, the President has cut down on big social doings since his heart attack and stroke (only five White House dinners this season). For another, the Washington social set, symbolized by such flamboyant party givers as Gwen Cafritz and Perle Mesta, seems to wilt in a Republican administration. The social glamour has now been taken over by the diplomats, who see parties principally as an excellent means of scouting international business. So crowded are the big diplomatic functions that it is sometimes easier to recognize a fellow diplomat by his country ("Here comes...
...first loyalty was to his father. In Washington, visiting the usual tourist attractions, Prince Juan Carlos became one himself as women employees of the Library of Congress pressed noses against windows to watch him pass. He attended an embassy reception and parties given by Mrs. Merriweather Post and Perle Mesta. A dinner guest wondered if his extensive military training would help fit him to be King. "Madame," smiled the prince, "it is charming of you to ask such a question, but it is my father who is going to be King...
...full Washington treatment this week is Spain's handsome, unmarried Prince Juan Carlos, 20, in on an unofficial visit for five days of capital sights, parties and interviews. Even the hostess with the mostes', peripatetic Party Giver Perle Mesta, gets her chance (for one hour) at the young prince, rumored to be Dictator Francisco Franco's choice for the Spanish throne. Said Perle: "I'm going to have a combination tea and cocktail hour. What I've planned to do is have the prince meet . . . some of the Republicans and Democrats here in Washington. This...
...team left their mark on celebrities as well as on New York's anonymous multitudes. Box 31 at the Garden was held by crusade headquarters for visiting VIPs, and the Garden management itself reserved two boxes every night. Such disparate personalities as Perle ("Hostess with the Mostes' ") Mesta and Singer Ethel Waters came whenever they could. For Perle Mesta this meant some ten visits, "whenever I'm in New York. Billy is a perfectly marvelous man who is doing a great deal of good. I plan to give a dinner for him, though I haven...
...pool of several hundred musicians. On a busy night he may have as many as 25 Lester Lanin groups blaring his bouncy arrangements from Maine to Maryland. He himself shows up mainly at top-drawer affairs, e.g., last week a Newport dinner dance in honor of Perle Mesta, before that at Southampton's Tennis Ball and Newport's Tiffany Ball. There are enough such affairs to keep Lanin on the bandstand most nights of the year...