Word: countess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Elmer Schlesinger, 48, of Manhattan, Jewish lawyer (Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy), longtime Chicagoan, onetime vice president and general counsel of the U. S. Shipping Board; of heart disease; while golfing in Aiken, S. C. Lawyer Schlesinger was the husband of onetime Countess Eleanor Patterson Gizycka, Chicago Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson's sister. He was a director of the Patterson publications (Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, Liberty Magazine). He was divorced from Halle Schaffner of Chicago, daughter of Founder Joseph Schaffner of Hart, Schaffner & Marx, tailors...
Died. The Countess of Lauderdale, able miniature painter and socialite of London, Palm Beach and Thirlestane Castle, Lauder, Scotland; after a long illness; in Palm Beach...
Serena Blandish was born near the docks of London. When she grew up, she was carried off by a Countess who wished her to make a brilliant marriage. This Serena was incompetent to do. She accepted a ring from a Jewish jeweler and she accepted a luncheon engagement with Lord Ivor Cream. The ring led to embarrassments and the luncheon engagement led, not to another engagement of a more permanent nature, but to tea. Martin, the Countess's butler, gloomily observed: "A lady who stays to tea where she has been invited to luncheon never gets engaged...
Married. Henry Huddleston Rogers Jr., brother of Mrs. Millicent Rogers Ramos (onetime Countess Salm von Hoogstraeten) and son of Col. Henry H. Rogers, onetime Standard Oil partner of John D. Rockefeller; to Virginia Lincoln, daughter of Dr. William R. Lincoln of Cleveland; in Cleveland...
...College Humor, Pictorial Review, Country Gentleman. For the shapely, aristocratic, painted heroines of Fisher Body (TIME, Dec. 24, et ante} Artist Barclay receives $1200 each. *1st George Jay (died 1923), 2nd Edwin, 3rd Helen (now Mrs. Finlay J. Shepard, mother of four adopted children), 4th Howard, 6th Anna (Countess Boni de Castellane from 1895 to 1905, but now Princesse de Sagan and Duchesse de Talleyrand. Count Boni de Castellane, who has not yet obtained a Roman Catholic annulment and therefore cannot marry again, is a famed disconsolate character in Paris, where he lives with a famed bull...