Word: clubman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. If you marry into Fifth Avenue society at 21, bear a daughter when you are still fond of dancing, choke on the resultant respectability, accept a dapper clubman's advances' and slide out of New York Harbor with him on his yacht, leave him in Europe, later have an idyll with a boy-artist, who in turn leaves you, then it is a natural thing to settle quietly on the French Riviera. There your past blends with the background. You anoint your conscience with self-pity. You maneuver and wait in righteous patience for the boy-artist...
Harlots are the puppets of the piece. Jerry Strong, clubman, wagers he can reform a street walker. In the process, he falls in love with her in time to ring down as tawdry and dishonest a curtain as the Theatre has seen this year...
With the exception of James Kirkwood, as the clubman, the cast is selected with a characteristically canny eye. Edna Hibbard, as the honest, bitter cynic of the harlots, received the maximum applause...
...following ships: On the Olympic (White Star)-Viscount Wimborne, onetime Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland (1915-18), the principal financial backer of the British In- ternational Polo Team. On the Mauretania (Cunard)-Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, wife of the eminent publisher. On the Paris (French)-Reginald C. Vanderbilt, famed clubman; Ring Lardner, professional humorist...
Married. Ogden L. Mills, 40, U. S. Congressman and Manhattan clubman, to Mrs. Dorothy Randolph Fell; at Narragansett Pier, R. I. His divorced wife, daughter of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, is now the wife of Sir Paul Dukes, of London. Mrs. Fell last year divorced John R. Fell, of Philadelphia, charging drunkenness. Mr. Mills is the grandson of Darius Ogden Mills, '49er...