When Entertaining Was a Matter of Improvisation

Thank you for the article by Sylvia Thompson about Gloria Stuart (“Martini Time in the Garden of Allah,” Holiday Entertaining Issue, Nov. 5). What fun to know that Stuart “used all of her friends’ stoves and refrigerators” when she entertained. I once met Thompson and Stuart at a book fair in Riverside. Stuart was as lovely and gracious in person as she appears to be in this article.

Ella Webb

Hemet

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As a child of Holocaust survivors, I find Thompson’s piece bemoaning U.S. wartime shortages, and how the Hollywood elite survived, petulant and downright offensive.

Stephany Yablow

Sherman Oaks