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I removed the statement from the Elsa Maxwell article (see the talk page). The Clan Maxwell Web site makes the statement, but doesn't state any basis for it. This article does. — WFinch (talk) 13:40, 24 July 2009 (UTC)Reply
Right and on What's My Line when Mesta guest starred as the famous mystery guest, they made it clear that Mesta is THE hostess. It was in the 1950s so they would likely know. MagnoliaSouth(talk) 15:59, 29 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
In any case, the phrase was probably popularised and remains widely known because of the song "The hostess with the mostes' on the ball" in Irving Berlin's musical comety Call Me Madam. (The inspiration for the main character in that show was Perle Mesta, as noted in the article here.) Ondewelle (talk) 11:35, 6 February 2015 (UTC)Reply