Office of the First Lady of the United States Staff, White House Social Secretary, Press Secretary, White House Chief Floral Designer, and White House Executive Chef. Though the persona, activities, and initiatives of the First Lady have always been significant to the history of the United States, the first First Lady to hire federally funded staff was Edith Roosevelt, who hired Belle Hagner as the first White House Social Secretary on October 2, 1901. Eleanor Roosevelt became the first First Lady to expand the office beyond social and administrative secretaries by hiring Malvina Thompson as her personal secretary and Jackie Kennedy was the first to employ a Press Secretary.
The Lady from Shanghai on their own, are distracting to the murder plot." Satyajit Ray called it the first 'atonal' film made in the history of cinema. A more recent "Time Out Film Guide" review states that Welles simply didn't care enough to make the narrative seamless: "the principal pleasure of "The Lady from Shanghai" is its tongue-in-cheek approach to story-telling." One recent book on "Film Noir" praises the film for its pervasive atmosphere of malaise and its impressive, extraordinary technical mastery. Although "The Lady From Shanghai" was acclaimed in Europe, it was not embraced in the U.S. until several decades later. Review aggregator