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Grand Hotel. At a $75,000 white-tie party last week, the President formally opened the 400-room Hotel Tamanaco in the capital city of Caracas (pop.: 800,000). Two thousand guests drank champagne and Scotch, nibbled at 6,500 lbs. of meat and fowl. They were entertained by Parisian Chanteuse Patachou (who got $10,000 for a week's work). Colonel Pérez Jiménez, dressed in a braid-crusted white tunic and black trousers with a crimson stripe, himself danced the first rumba...
...established entertainment choices along Shubert Alley is Samuel Taylor's "Sabrina Fair." Margaret Sullavan has a chance to skitter about the stage while Joseph cotten scutters after her. the problem, something about a chauffeur's daughter with Parisian ideas, is amusingly worked out at the National...
...customer's written order. A mother stated that she sent her little girls to parochial school because "they weren't learning handwriting in public school's." And another parent admitted she was mortified that her 10-year-old could not even read a letter written in English by a Parisian youngster...
...France is shooting for the transatlantic luxury trade with a new twelve-hour, nonstop flight to Paris. Called the "Golden Parisian" the flight will use Lockheed Super Constellations fitted to carry only 32 passengers (instead of 56), cost an extra $25 above the $415 regular first-class fare. Travelers who want even fancier treatment can have a private cabin for one or two ($125 extra...
Misia was not the only one who was impressed with Misia. Before she was 16, she was married to a young Parisian man of affairs, Thadee Natanson, whom she met one evening while out with Alfred Nobel, the dynamite manufacturer, and his American mistress. After blithely spending her dowry of 300,000 francs (then $60,000) on a trousseau, Misia settled in Paris, and while Thadee concerned himself with business, she diverted herself by building homes on the Riviera, helping imprisoned anarchists and bewitching the first of a long succession of assorted geniuses...