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During World War I Elsa hit the charity trail. She topped the big time at a gala for French war orphans in New York's Metropolitan Opera House by producing the notoriously unproducible Marshal Joffre. The hero of the Marne had secretly agreed to be taken prisoner, and Elsa had him "captured" by a National Guard cavalry escort. She went on in triumph to the Peace Conference and captured Arthur Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, as her dinner guest at the Ritz. Elsa was firmly launched as the hostess who combined a touch of Mme. de Recamier with the flair...
...probably gives the best performance of his career. By nature an admirable clotheshorse, he just lets nature take its course and since he hardly bothers to act, the audience is hardly bothered by his acting. As his paramour, Lady Patricia, Elizabeth Taylor behaves so naturally that sometimes a Regency gala seems almost as sophisticated as a Hollywood high-school prom...
...orchids and leis, flown in from the Islands, and, ignoring Tahoe's sparkling waters, lackeys gassed up a swimming pool by spiking it with champagne. Mrs. Gillilan's newly rich bridegroom, Ray, 60, wouldn't say what the party cost (estimate: $30,000). But the gala seemed just what Bobo needed to relax after her six weeks of idle seclusion in Reno...
Gradually, companies are learning to hold their annual meetings in big cities instead of drab, out-of-the-way factory towns. Westinghouse has started holding regional annual meetings around the U.S. so that as many stockholders as possible can attend. Matson lines takes its stockholders on a gala tour of its luxury liner Lurline. Chas. Pfizer & Co., maker of antibiotics, once brought in eight piebald baby pigs and a testy tiger cub to demonstrate the benefits of a new synthetic milk product. Chesapeake Industries perked up its annual meeting this year with a special preview of Hollywood's Crossed...
Bregenz, Austria (July 24-Aug. 15): large-scale concerts, ballet, drama and a gala performance of Die Fledermaus on a stage floating in Lake Constance...