Word: ailsa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stated by Forrest Izzard in Heroines of the Modern Stage that the father of Gordon Craig and Ailsa Craig, borne by Actress Ellen Terry, was Charles Wardell. Others have made this statement; many persons credit it. Let Arthur William Row name the father of Ellen Terry's children, if he can. If it is difficult to name the father of a lady's children, it is equally difficult to estimate posthumously her detestations. It is certain that Ellen Terry, toward the end of her life, sent messages of felicitation to U. S. admirers. Those, however, who knew...
...Treasury Andrew William Mellon, daughter of an owner of the Guinness Brewing Co. of Dublin; for failure to provide. Mr. Lee's petition charging mental cruelty had been denied. In 1910 Mr. Mellon, 26 years her senior, sued for divorce. Children of the Mellon-McMullen marriage are Ailsa, who married David K. E. Bruce in 1927 and Paul, popular Yale student...
Engaged. Lydia Archbold, next richest (Ailsa Mellon was the richest) Washington society girl; to Elliott Strauss, $2,000 a year ensign-son of Rear Admiral Joseph R. Strauss...
...When Ailsa, that was Mellon, sailed for Rome in company with young U. S. Vice Consul Bruce (TIME, June 7), the ménage of the Secretary of the Treasury was left without an official mistress. Social Washington has been speculating as to where Mr. Mellon would find another chatelaine. Last week correspondent Robert Barry, who gets about much, disclosed a story which he had picked up among the guests at the Mellon wedding...
Married. Miss. Ailsa Mellon, daughter of the Secretary of the Treasury; to D. K. E. Bruce. (See p. 6, "And Everything...