Word: balsan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Riviera last week, war-work committee swanksters were the Countess of Warwick, Mme Jacques Balsan (the former Consuelo Vanderbilt), Elsa Maxwell, Maxine Elliott. Danger of war between France and Italy having finally ebbed, the French Government last week turned the Menton-Cannes section of the Riviera back from a military to a civil zone and the Monte Carlo casino was in full blast daily from...
Died. Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough, 62, of an intestinal disorder; in London. In 1895 he married Consuelo Vanderbilt; in 1926, five years after her divorce from the Duke and her marriage to Jacques Balsan. Consuelo Vanderbilt applied to the Rota for an annulment of the earlier marriage on the grounds that she had been coerced into it by her mother, the late Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont. The annulment was granted; Protestant ministers throughout the land objected acrimoniously. The Marquess of Blandford, 36. eldest son of the Duke and Consuelo Vanderbilt, inherits the title...
Left. By Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont who died in January 1933, in Paris: the bulk of a net estate valued at $1,326,765.63 to her daughter, Mme Jacques Balsan and other relatives; $100,000 (the only public bequest) to the National Woman's Party...
...Duke had moved out this spring. He was annoyed by his second duchess' lack of interest in society, so unlike his first wife Consuelo Vanderbilt, who divorced him in 1920 and next year married Lieut.-Colonel Jacques Balsan (as the Duke carefully points out in his Who's Who entry). Directly after Consuelo's divorce, His Grace married cool, beautiful Bostonian Gladys Deacon. While he danced spryly at night clubs, she has stayed at home. When they gave receptions last winter he frequently stood alone at the head of the stairs. During the recent London Season...
...Riviera rich Bruce Bundy of Los Angeles announced a plan to form an island colony "as a refuge from high French prices and the depreciated dollar." Socialite colonists would purchase all their necessary luxuries on a co-operative basis. Reported ready to join the colony were Mme Jacques Balsan, the onetime Consuelo Vanderbilt, and Frank Jay Gould, who was forced last year to rent his famed Riviera casinos to a French syndicate at a reputed loss...