First Edition, Copyright 1954 Elsa Maxwell tells her fascinating life story, coming from a poor background, becoming a pianist, an accompaniast to a vaudeville star, a song writer, a partner in two Paris nigthclubs, a consultant to a dressmaker, a press agent for Monte Carlo, an actress in movies, radio, television and theatre, a script writer, a newspaper columnist, a contributor to magazines and a lecturere. But she is most well-known for her fabulous parties which attracted some of the most important people in the world.