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...motor accident in France three years ago made Margaret Ayer Barnes an author: in bed for months, she wrote to give herself something to do. Chicago socialite, sister of Novelist Janet Fairbank. Authoress Barnes was formerly a director of Bryn Mawr College. Her short stories have been published under the title Prevailing Winds. Years of Grace is her first novel...
...Authoress Marthe Bibesco, not to be confused with her cousin. Princess Antoine Bibesco (nee Elizabeth, daughter of Margot Asquith), was born in Rumania, daughter of Jean Lahovary, onetime Rumanian Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, was educated in France. At 16 she married Prince Bibesco, head of the Bibesco family, accompanied him to Persia on a diplomatic mission. Like others of the Rumanian nobility, most notably Queen Marie, the Bibescoes will turn an adulant dollar out of democratic pockets. Princess Bibesco's first book, the Eight Paradises, written when she was 18, was crowned by the French Academy. Other...
...Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News. It was on the tabloid News that Daughter Alicia worked in 1927 as a $30-a-week sobsister, was once thrown downstairs by an irate Hoboken housewife whom she sought to interview on henpecking. To other Chicago £nd Manhattan social ites the authoress is Mrs. Simpson. James Simpson Jr., whom she married in 1927 and from whom she now lives apart (in Manhattan), is son of the board chairman of Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. But to the publishing world she is sec ond principal in a Father-&-Daughter saga unique...
These brusque commands the leader of a Rumanian robber band addressed, last week, to the occupants of the last of some dozen limousines to bear guests home from a dinner at Castle Mogoshoioa, sumptuous summer palace of Prince Jan Bibesco and his spouse, socialite authoress Princess Marthe (Catherine Paris) Bibesco...
...comment on "Dance Hall" now playing at the Keith-Albee Theater must necessarily be limited by the facts that the theater was pleasantly darkened and the waking hours of the reviewer few. It is difficult to determine the exact relation of Vina Delmar, authoress of "Bad Girl" with the plot of this production. Surely there is nothing so dowdily moral as the morality of a cheap Dance Hall as portrayed upon the screen. Yet, the fact remains that the sociologist who may go to gain information on the correct dance gestures and colloquial idiom of the truly jazzy will probably...