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...Café Society & Couturieres. Ladies of café society in France, as elsewhere, are gayly extravert in war work. Thus the Hon. Mrs. Reginald ("Daisy") Fellowes, daughter of a French duke, onetime Princesse de Broglie and friend of the Duchess of Windsor, announced herself the marraine or "godmother" not of one French soldier - the usual thing - but of an entire battalion of Chasseurs Alpins (Blue Devils), traditionally agile and gallant French fighters: She sends them English blankets and every other sort of costly trench luxury, keeps her daughters madly knitting. Recently when "Daisy" visited her delighted chasseurs they did everything...
Died. Isaac Meltzer, fiftyish, known to thousands of U. S. tourists as the hyper-peppy U. S. newsboy at Paris' Café de la Paix, in winter at Cannes and Nice; by leaping from the window of the Paris office of the New York Times...
...uninhibited wit, sloppy clothes and nocturnal habits have made him café society's own Dr. Johnson. A fabulous night owl, he prowls from 52nd Street's 21 to 57th Street's musical hangouts followed by an army of press agents, newsmen, vaudevillians and cinemactors, puts on high-powered conversational exhibitions with his good friend Playwright Sam Behrman, drops pearls of grit-edged humor for all who will listen...
Last November Manhattan's tabloids fished up a new Romeo & Juliet tale for their yearning millions. George Lowther 3rd, 30-year-old café socialite, and pretty, 20-year-old Eileen Herrick were in love. Eileen's father disapproved of George, kept Eileen locked up at home. On a writ of habeas corpus George haled Eileen & father into court (TIME, Nov. 27), got legal sanction for his courtship. But Father Herrick spirited Eileen away, frustrating George, delighting Manhattan's millions...
...Such are the facts. What can the café chantant politicians of the Havas Agency oppose to these facts...