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"i (, 1, i 'i i it WOMEN FASHION JFnutctsco jfxatmncr Tuesday, December 1, 1970 UVKLY AIMS Page 27 I 1) i Hi -rVv' y' i Mural Room's Nostalgic Farewell i 1 i i 11 1 Ii kV-. YESTERDAY and Today mingled in the crowds which filled the huge memory-filled room. Mm J.V 4 A' 1 9 I I i 's jV 1 1rMift sa-lT1 "'5 if 1 i ii i i 1 1 I. (J 1 I1- 1 1 i A i FIRST LADY Mrs. Ronald Reagan, left, in red Galanos midi dress, and Mrs.

Richard Ham, wearing leather-trimmed tweed mid-calf coat, arrive at St. Francis Hotel for "Farewell to the Mural Room" luncheon. 4" J( It 1 At '111 Albei Morch Glittering "I Gasi '9 SENTIMENTAL family gathering under the clock: Mrs. Donald Russell, her granddaughters, Marian and Janet Miller, and her daughter, Mrs. Richard Miller.

(More photos on page 28 ii 1 VINTAGE black lace Dior in fashion show presented by Maisdn Mendessolle, 4 Eileets Fvalher is ofivriiuf ff (, It hur vxvitUuj on vij-sfiriii ij yvv-hoUdau iwUm special! MRS. HERMAN PHLEGER, left, Kenneth Monteagle and Mrs. Marshall Madison luncheon at their favorite Mural Room table. jfH" t'm -mw vnm. A if Then Goodbye If the Devil devised forgetfulness, then the St.

Francis Hotel's Mural Room must have been a bit of heaven yesterday. It was awash with the nostalgia of some 450 persons attempting to recapture the flavor of long-ago luncheons, the fashion flair of the '30s, '49s and '50s and the swing, sway and cmbraceable dinner-dance music of-other eras. The Mural Room's Monday Lunch was revived briefly to benefit the San Francisco Symphony Association. Next year, the Room wiJl be no more as the hotel undergoes expansion. The late Ernest Gloor, for seemingly endless years, the maitre d'hotel, used to "dress" his room with the Fashionable up front.

The non-chic were relegated to the rear in an area the socially prominent quickly dubbed "Siberia" soon after the luncheon tradition began in 19.35. There was no Siberia yesterday. Although the luncheon had been a sell-out for many weeks, everyone had a place in the sun. Surrounded by the seven large Albert Herter murals titled "The Western March of Civilization," attendees relived the gossip, happiness and heartbreak. Old-Timers Some of the regulars who were old when dinner-dancing stopped in 1954 and the Monday lunches ended in 1962 turned out for the "wake." Mrs.

Stanley Powell looked for Mrs. George Brady Sr. under the big clock as familiar to the Monday Munching Set as a Mickey Mouse wristwatch. It was the same as in former days and yet very, very different. When it came to old San Francisco names, there was an embarrassment of riches.

Practically everyone still alive and able to navigate turned out. Mrs. Charles Noble and Mrs. George Otto shared a table and among their guests were Mrs. Elliott McAllister, Mrs.

John Stephenson, Mrs.E. Morris Cox, Mrs. John Sutro, Mrs. Ralph Davies, Mrs. Gregory Harrison, Mrs.

Ernest Stent and Mrs. Joseph Moore. Nearby, the Kenneth Monteagles, the Herman Phlegers, the Marshall Madisons, Mrs. Bruce Kelham, Mrs. Nion Tucker, Mrs.

Phil Boone, Dr. and Mrs. John Upton, Mrs. Cassell St. Aubyn, Claude Lazard, Mrs.

John Rogers and Mrs. George Jewett. Mrs. Paige Monteagle, recalling how maitre d' Gloor always gave her one of the prized tables near the door remarked: "He was so dear. He used to send me Christ-mas cards." Mrs.

Ronald Reagan never got a card from Gloor. Yesterday was her first time in the room as the guest of Mrs. Jaquelin Hume. California's first lady was wearing a handsome mid-calf bright red wool with brass buttons and belt, modestly covered by an even longer double-breasted mink coat. However, eyes were also on Mrs.

Reagan's fellow guest. Few recognized her. Your humble Shadow knows. It was Mrs. Donald R.

Wright, the attractive wife of California's new chief justice of the Supreme Court. Miller In a Maxi The Miller clan was on hand, too Mrs. Robert Watt Miller, Mrs. Richard Miller and Mrs. Robert Miller, the last in a maxi coat.

Mrs. Robert B. Hutchins came in with her daughter Ernestine (Mrs. John) Evans, who lives in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Others from faraway included Mrs.

Zadoe Brown of Honolulu, here for the holidays, who arrived with her sisler, Mrs. John Hooper of Woodside. And Mrs. Geoffrey Montgomery, Pebble Beach's Mrs. Samuel F.

B. Morse, Mrs. Tommy Mein and Mrs. Paul McConnell (Vivienne Raven Moller), who was receiving best wishes on her recent marriage. Many entertainers who got tlieir first break in the Mural, came, Among them singer Hilo Hattie', muumuu-ed and still barefoot.

Bandleader Harry Owens, who said he had played there "3000 memorable nights." Phil Harris, had been sitting with Harold Zellerboch, toasted the room after Freddie Martin eulogized it. Yesterday's affair, like all love affairs, was a slate of fcelinfi sad and yet fun. 1 til' it Ii. a 2 Miss FMhnt, v- 1 Nation's Don't miss out on this Fantastic ONCE-A-YEAR SPECIAL- Author ity "Wi 1 i XL 4 Call EILEEN FEATHER Today! "V-V IN ONLY ONE HOUR Toni Gross tOST; tti from waist LOST: 2Vz" from tummy LOST: from hips from each thigh TOTAL: Vz" IN ONLY ONE HOUR Sheryl Conroy 10ST: Hi" from waist LOST: 2" from tummy LOST: 3" from hips 10ST: 2" from each thigh TOTAL: 10'2" i 4 iA TlwPvrivrt UUt for tiw nrmmtn trim has vvvruihhut mn AM ni r-r-m r-r- a t-i ir-r-t yir ..1 11 ccm rcHincn VaiCJL utMIIMUAlb CALL TOPAYI 885-4556 479-5454 4050 Redwood Highway Examiner photob by Teresa Znhala MRS. ALBERT SCHLESINGER, left, and Mrs.

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