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those terms - “she did it for her friends” was the way it was put - of throwing big parties for them. She would get up amusing parties. Any party that Elizabeth Marbury got up was fun. She got up big parties in night clubs, big parties in hotels, big parties in private houses. They were always done with a lot of style and a lot of chi-chi, but also a lot of fun. She had a great reputation.

She was a great, big, heavy, not good-looking woman, but interesting, lively, given to rough talk if she felt like it, but very funny talk. She had great wit really. She would get off these rough things, but with an edge on them that would make everybody laugh and yet were somewhat satirical. She was great fun in that way.

I don't know how she and Anne Morgan, Elsie de Wolfe and Ann Vanderbilt got working together, but they did in the First World War. Whether they had been working together before that or not, I don't know. At any rate, in some of these enterprises for social service work, nursing work and hospital work for France they got thrown together. They joined forces, teamed up and made an excellent team. They never broke up their partnership. As one died there were, of course, only three left. Then there were only two left. Certainly Elizabeth Marbury is the only one who still lives. Later on they bought houses close by each other on what is