[19] The Baroness's daughter Mary Liliane Matilda, called Baba (1901–1945), was her fashion stylist and childhood friend.
[27] The Victoire business at 229 Brompton Road in 1921 provided stage costumes for Viola Tree's production of The Tempest at the Aldwych Theatre.
[28] In a space above it, the Baroness held with assistance from Marcel Boulestin an exhibition of works by Jean Émile Laboureur.
[30][31] In 1933, Beaton described Gellibrand as "a good-looking tomboy, with gold hair and mushroom-coloured skin around the eyes".
[1] Paula became a lifelong friend of Cecil Beaton, who in The Glass of Fashion (1954) documented her appearance.
The 1928 portrait of Paula Gellibrand, Marquise de Casa Maury by Beaton sold at Christie's for £1,375 in 2017.
[37] Paula visited the Mountbattens in India in 1948, in a house party including Malcolm Sargent and his wife.
[38] In 1936, together with her husband William Allen, Paula wrote Strange Coast, a novel of romance and adventure set in "the Meskhian Republic" — a fictionalized Georgia of the 1920s, published under the pseudonym "Liam Pawle".
She is taller, thinner, her nose is more pointed and her eyelashes are longer, her hands more claw-like, her hair more sleek; she is even more exaggeratedly chic.
[43] It was put on the stage by S. N. Behrman in 1929 at the Morosco Theatre, with Ruth Gordon playing the title role.