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...kind that producers understand and fans love. But Hollywood, Philadelphia and Ruritania are far easier to mix on film than they are in fact: so pat a plot raised the question whether two hearts were meeting or merely two dazzling luminaries being drawn to each other. The gala celebrations at Monaco last week began to sound like a Graustark script cynically brought up to date by Ben Hecht. Or so it seemed in the beginning...
Presiding at a Gala General Motors press conference in the ballroom of the Somerset Hotel, Mr. Garrett (vice-president of General Motors) pointed out that the car which would actually drive itself was no longer a fantasy. --Same paper, same date...
...Capriccio crowd itself is an uncertain one. On the eve of the opening about three weeks ago, Gene and Pat and Dave threw a big gala open house and many of the folks who made that scene haven't returned for subsequent ones. "What with the Design School, (a segment of which allegedly wants to do something about the graying 'fluid' paintings on the wall), the Greeks, the Bat Club and the Advocate, we have a crazy international gang," Dave notes with understandable pride. "We really aren't looking for the conventional people who don't like our prices. There...
...that year, the Republicans had a gala public meeting in Boston, with reserved seats in Tremont Temple. The Rev. Edward Everett Hale presided over a collection of notables which included Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt, and Elihu Root...
With 1,500 guests present, the TIME of Your LIFE Ball was gala, and a huge success. To Mrs. H. J. Heinz II, chairman of the ball, the TIME Inc. theme seemed a natural for an affair that was both social and civic. Said she: "Why, everybody knows TIME and LIFE-it's like saying Hello...