£SOO COCKTAIL PARTY
RICH * AMERICAN'S WIFE 4 .GREAT DISPLAY OF JEWELS LONDON, Dec. 21 The centre of several lavish and much-advertised parties, Mrs. Albertini, the wife of an American millionaire, gave a cocktail party at the week-end in London that cost £SOO. She 'wore her Marie Antoinette jewels, worth £60,000, reaching from the wrist to the elbow. Many of the women guests glittered with diamonds and wore sablo and mink coats. Mrs. Albertini said: "Some people call me extravagant, but I like to £ee peoplo happy. My parties bring trade to the suppliers." Extraordinary precautions were taken to keel) out gate-crashers. Every guest was told to produce his invitation card, which was carefully scrutinised by officials in uniform. Several well-dressed people who were not invited were turned back by detectives. Champagne flowed ■without limit in a room scented by hothouse roses and earnatiqns.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23233, 30 December 1938, Page 9
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143£500 COCKTAIL PARTY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23233, 30 December 1938, Page 9
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