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Elsa Maxwell

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Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.


— Elsa Maxwell


#backward #dinner #goodness #sake #serve

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.


— Elsa Maxwell


#content #friends #husband #i #laughter

A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.


— Elsa Maxwell


#bore #bores #cleaner #eager #everything

I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.


— Elsa Maxwell


#dish #i #life #make #sauce

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.


— Elsa Maxwell


#bank #being #bores #church #fire

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.


— Elsa Maxwell


#cemetery #mental #put #still #walking

Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished.


— Elsa Maxwell


#before #existence #finished #join #leave

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.


— Elsa Maxwell


#dues #giving #humanity #parties #pays

I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.


— Elsa Maxwell


#dislike #else #equivalent #hate #i

Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.


— Elsa Maxwell


#before #finished #join #leave #life






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Elsa Maxwell (May 24 1883 – November 1 1963) was an American gossip columnist and author songwriter and professional hostess renowned for her parties for royalty and high society figures of her day. Maxwell took credit for introducing Rita Hayworth to Prince Aly Khan in the summer of 1948. She developed a gift for staging games and diversions at parties for the rich and began making a living devising treasure-hunt parties come-as-your-opposite parties and other sorts including a scavenger hunt in Paris in 1927 that inadvertently created disturbances all over the city.

She also appeared as herself in the films Stage Door Canteen (1943) and Rhapsody in Blue (1945) as well as co-starring in the 1939 film Hotel for Women for which Elsa Maxwell wrote the screenplay. Elsa Maxwell (May 24 1883 – November 1 1963) was an American gossip columnist and author songwriter and professional hostess renowned for her parties for royalty and high society figures of her day. Maxwell is credited with the introduction of the scavenger hunt and treasure hunt for use as party games in the modern era.

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