But some of Drury’s Dolly is a toned-down Perle Mesta, the capital’s most famous mid-twentieth-century party-giver. Readers are told that in Dolly’s “great white house amid the dark green ...

In "Call Me Madam," the 1953 movie version of Irving Berlin's hit musical, it was no secret that Ethel Merman was channeling a real person – a wealthy widow by the name of Perle Mesta ...

Bestselling author Meryl Gordon's biography "The Woman Who Knew Everyone: The Power of Perle Mesta, Washington's Most Famous Hostess" (Grand Central Publishing), tells the story of the socialite ...

The widow of a steel magnate, socialite Perle Mesta used her fortune to host inclusive dinner parties in Washington, D.C., in the 1940s and '50s, becoming known as "The Hostess with the Mostes' on ...

Edmundo González Urrutia, Venezuelan opposition politician, is visiting Costa Rica. He has been traveling in Latin America and meeting with political leaders since January 2, prior to Nicolás Maduro’s ...

Santo Domingo.-Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia departed the Dominican Republic on Tuesday, following a brief stop in Santo Domingo as part of his American tour. His final ...

Santo Domingo.-The hotel where Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González stayed in Santo Domingo last week no longer shows signs of the heightened security seen in recent days. Police and SWAT ...