Irene Dunne admits that "my husband and I have always tried to keep our social life limited to small gatherings at home. So when they asked me to act as hostess for a television party, I flinched, gulped, and then asked, "For how many people?" Fifty or sixty million, was the reply. I think the shock alone made me say yes!"

 Miss Dunne, who had already entertained millions with her stage and screen performances over the years, is the ideal hostess, "because she always seems to have fun while remaining the perfect lady."

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So Exemplary is Miss Dunne's conduct, in fact, that it is surprising to learn that she was once "Involved in a bomb plot." Recalls Miss Dunne, "I was stopping at the Waldorf in New York and on returning to my room after a shopping spree, I somehow got off at the wrong floor -- the one on which the President was staying. It seems, there had been a bomb scare and when the security agents saw me get off the elevator with my hat box, they took me into custody and began firing questions. I finally had to prove that I was Irene Dunne, the hatshopper."

 This is probably the onetime in her life that Irene Dunne has ever been suspected of unladylike conduct. Born in Louisville, Ky., she was convent-educated there in St.Louis. While still a toddler, she began studying voice and drama.

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(11.07.1959 - The Oneonta Star)