
Frank Gould, but her guest won't be able to arrive until next week. Lauder had expected to bring with her Mrs.

Joseph (Estee) Lauder, wearing a turquoise blue faille dress, gold-embroidered, from Princess Galitzine, with a gold and diamond necklace and long earrings. Humphrey Statter wore a white satin, brown-beaded dress from Princess Galitzine of Rome, with brown taffeta coat, tied, with big taffeta bows.īack from a summer in Europe was Mrs. Graham wore a brilliant dress of hot pink crepe, jewel-embroidered, by Castillo of Paris. to arrange the "do" for the auto magnate's second wife. He whipped up to the Regency Hotel suite of the Fords at 5 P.M. Henry (Christina) Ford 2d, in a long sheath, mauve-colored, wore an elaborate hairdo - of two big braided loops - created by Imo the Arden salon. With it she wore a short wrap of breath-of-spring mink. It was made for her by Greek designer George Stavropoulis. Johnson, who arrived here from the capital in a chic pale wool suit, changed, for the opera, into an alabaster chiffon sheath, Empire style, with a floating panel that doubles as a cape. Oates (Oatsie) Leiter with her lovely 16-year-old daughter, Victoria. Then more than a decade ago she wed and found happiness with tall British sportsman Sandy Saunderson and dwells in California.ĭown from Newport, too, was Mrs. Born Louise Van Alen, of rich old-guard society, she married two Mdivani princes and designed - for one, who was killed in a polo match while she watched - a heart-shaped grave. Saunderson, has, incidentally, had more vivid romance in her life than many opera heroines.

Her white crepe full-skirted dress from Oscar de la Renta had a neckline high in front and low at back, and was worn with a sable wrap and her diamonds and rubies. Black-haired Noreen Drexel was a brilliant figure against the Met's blaze of color.
