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...President Joseph Vincent McKee of New York City's Board of Aldermen. Joseph Hergesheimer was staying with James H. R. Cromwell. Arthur Somers Roche ate buffet dinner with Mrs. Dodge Sloane. Countess Edith di Zoppola visited the Harrison Williamses. The English nobility was represented by the Honorable Moya Beresford (great granddaughter of the late, notorious Jay Gould), the highly eligible Duke of Sutherland and Earl of Warwick. Last week all three said they were hugely enjoying the season. Members of the Artists & Writers Golf Association were guests at a ping-pong tournament in the ballroom of the Breakers...
...plot of Devil's Lottery is really the invention of one of its characters, Lord Litchfield (Halliwell Hobbs) who, when his horse King Midas wins the Derby, invites all the people who have held winning lottery tickets to a party at his house. Evelyn Beresford (Elissa Landi) turns up, accompanied by a scapegrace Army officer whose wife is absent and in poverty. The officer (Paul Cavanagh) plays cards with a clownish prizefighter (Victor McLaglen) and wins. The prizefighter tries to steal from his mother (Beryl Mercer) to pay the money and his mother dies of fear. The prizefighter then kills...
...Trade within the Empire (TIME, March 3, 1930). The editor refused, quit, took practically his whole staff with him and founded The Week End Review. The Saturday Review never recovered. Last week it announced its acquisition by the virile Conservative Spectator. Founded 76 years ago by A. J. B. Beresford Hope, brother-in-law of Lord Salisbury, the Saturday Review achieved early fame for savage Toryism, shrieking the "menace" of Russia and Germany. But its true consequence was literary rather than political, particularly at the turn of the century when Frank Harris was editor and George Bernard Shaw music critic...
Died. Lady Helen Vivien Decies, 39, daughter and heiress of the late George Jay Gould, wife of John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, 5th Baron Decies, Boer War veteran; of jaundice and heart attack; in London...
This and the increased taxes of all sorts provided in Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden's Budget (TIME, April 21), stirred to wrath and protest the Englishman who married Miss Helen Vivien Gould (daughter of Jay) and her millions: John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, fifth Baron Decies, D. S. O., lately of the 7th Hussars, onetime Chief Press Censor for Ireland...