Word: aldriches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dennis King took the part of Dr. Rank. Instead of the stilted, outmoded language which mars most Ibsen translations, the play was given in modern idiom supplied by Thornton Wilder. Producer Jed Harris (Broadway, Coquette, The Front Page, The Green Bay Tree) worked in collaboration with Producer Richard Aldrich, who is this year's festival manager...
...Jefferson Islands club, in Chesapeake Bay a few miles from Annapolis, is a onetime bootleggers' hideout which 90 wealthy men like Breckinridge Long, Winthrop W. Aldrich, Herbert Fleishhacker, Owen D. Young, August A. Busch Jr., Floyd B. Odium and Franklin Roosevelt remodeled as a bachelor club for shooting, fishing, escape from heat. Any club member can take the place over to give a party, giving advance notice so that members not invited will not be inconvenienced. At the three-day party staged by Member Roosevelt last week, Members Odium, Busch, Young, etc. were not present, for the gathering...
John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (Brown '97) has distributed his offspring among U. S. colleges with the same conscientious impartiality that has characterized his largess. John Davison Rockefeller III was Princeton '29; Nelson Aldrich, Dartmouth '30; Laurance Spelman, Princeton '32; Winthrop Aldrich, Yale '35 (but no graduate); David, Harvard '36. Last week Princeton, which is currently seeking $6,500,000, elected serious young John D. Ill a life member of its Board of Trustees. Mr. Rockefeller; 31, is already a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, the General Education Board, the American Museum of Natural History...
Board Chairman Winthrop W. Aldrich of the Chase National Bank. . . . . . LL.D...
Settled. The slander suit brought by Ernest Aldrich Simpson, onetime (1928-37) husband of the Duchess of Windsor, against Mrs. Joan Sutherland, London socialite; in London; out of court. At a luncheon party Mrs. Sutherland allegedly gossiped that Mr. Simpson had been "well paid" to let his wife divorce him. Unknown to Mrs. Sutherland, Mrs. Peter Kerr-Smiley, Mr. Simpson's sister, was sitting beside...