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...endowing them with such delightful devices, and pretty soon the only thing that remains is a rather soiled sheet with some charcoaled smears. Perhaps not the only thing for the girl next door may hide under her pillow at night the sacred horseshoe nail ring, the talisman of the clan...
Through the door of the Presidential suite in Washington's Hotel Willard one afternoon last week peeped a lady with the reputation of being the wisest of her clan ?Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Beside her peeped pretty Mrs. Patrick Jay Hurley, wife of the Secretary...
...glories that only Tiffany, Macy's, or Pierre's can bestow on woman. The sparkling of the gems as they caught the light was like staring at some inverted heaven. Even as he looked the lights dimmed and the curtain went up on Lammermoor, the story of a Scottish clan unraveled in the best possible Italian. For fifteen minutes the Vagabond strove concientiously to construct the story. He tried to recall his Scott to know avail, he tried to resurrect his Italian--with dire complications. At last he gave up and the better to pass the time looked hastily about...
Critics of the play seemed not quite sure whether it was bad or mediocre, but were reminded of Chekhov's Cherry Orchard. Unlike the Chekhovian piece, Playwright Gretchen Damrosch Finletter's play depends entirely on its urban scene. The Frenches were a proud, suave clan as long as they could cling to their Fifth Avenue mansion. When the son gets into financial trouble, compels the family to sell the homestead to keep him out of jail, the Frenches become impotent, scatter like smoke in the wind...
Nearly 40 years ago Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr. and his sister-in-law Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt (later Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont) fought a battle for the leadership of the Vanderbilt Clan. Their respective daughters Gertrude and Consuelo were unwilling pawns. Cornelius moved first by building an enormous renaissance palazzo known as "The Breakers," giving his gawky, good-natured daughter Gertrude a magnificent Newport coming-out party. Mrs. Willie K. countered that by marrying her quiet, handsome daughter Consuelo to Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, and giving New York the most widely discussed wedding it had ever...