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Photograph caption reads: "Famed Washington party-giver Perle Mesta, left, makes final arrangements with actress Jane Russell of Sherman Oaks for Imperial Ball which WAIF, inter-country adoption service, will stage tomorrow night at Bevelry Hilton". Photograph dated: Nov. 8, 1957.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;14 x 10 cm. Photographic prints
Mesta, Perle,--1889-1975 Russell, Jane,--1921-2011 World Adoption International Fund Motion picture actors and actresses Socialites Fund raisers (Persons)--California--Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles) Fund raising--California--Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles) Nonprofit organizations--California--Los Angeles Intercountry adoption Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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