Word: dagmars
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...granddaddy of all gossip columnists, returned to duty last week after a sick leave of nearly five months-and suddenly it was hard to realize that he had been away. "Arthur Miller left his mark on ex-Wife Marilyn Monroe," he reported. "Her favorite dish is lox and eggs." "Dagmar has shed so much avoir-dupoison, one of her best quips is now useless: Don't fight over me. fellers. There's enough for everybody.' " "Gloria Swanson brings her own rice when she dines at La Fonda del Sol." "Ailing or well, she is always Elizabeaut Taylor...
...brilliant intellectual (Mortimer Adler) appears just ahead of a retired madam (Polly Adler); the Dalai Lama flanks Dagmar. Henry Ford II shares a page with Tennessee Ernie Ford; Dr. Albert Schweitzer mingles on page 675 with Cleveland Indian Pitcher Herb Score. What brings these unlikely companions together is the new International Celebrity Register ($26), by Society Scribe Cleveland Amory (The Proper Bostonians, The Last Resorts...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN ''played the violin left-handed." He was "moody" and in his "black periods" would tell Dagmar of the poverty of his London childhood. He had loved "the little girl who lived next door [and] vowed that some day when he conquered the world, he would return and marry her . . . When he was well established, he returned to Whitechapel to claim his little bride. Just as he started to climb to her little room, a tiny white casket was carried down the stairs. . . . She had died of starvation while waiting for him." Charlie "would cry while telling...
IGOR STRAVINSKY was such a firebird that he loved going to the zoo "to watch the wild animals at feeding time, when they devoured the raw meat." But in mien and in amour he was "so disciplined, so logical, so conservative." Dagmar's heart leaped when, at long last, Igor bent forward and murmured: "Come tomorrow night"-then added: "I so want you to meet my wife." Igor and Dagmar "would sit for hours sipping Dubonnet while he unburdened himself" and inveighed against his critics. "Why do they blame me for my music?" he would rage...
...Violinist Leopold Godowsky Jr.. Dagmar's brother, is co-inventor (with Leopold Mannes) of Kodachrome color film...