THE COCKTAIL PARTY
OUTSPOKEN CONDEMNATION J Miss Elsa Maxwell is known as the ( world’s greatest party-giver, and her . reminiscences, “I Have Lived By My Wits,” are most interesting. Miss Maxwell is frank and out-i spoken about people and things, an< even Royalty is not spared her comment. She is honest enough’to adm' that some social leaders did not lik her, but that does not worry her; and she admits that her avoirdupois has never prevented her from enjoying herself. She says, however, that her “pet abomination” is a cocktail party. “As I see it. and I have been looking at it for a great many years, anyone who gets hold of a bucket of gin. a few old lemons, and a bunch of dead sardines immediately decides to give a cocktail party. “The selfsame women who spends three months trying to decide who should be and who should not be invited to her dinner party doesn't hesitate a second about a list of those to be ilhvited to her cocktail party. “A cocktail party, if you want my opinion, must never be given for more than six people. All six must be your intimate friends, and all six must be on speaking terms with each other.'
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1938, Page 5
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