Word: countess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Canadian wiseacres last week guessed the general election would come the first or second Monday in October. Canada's new Novelist-Governor General, John Buchan, Baron Tweedsmuir, is to land in Quebec Oct. 10. Getting out Sept. 12 are the unpopular Earl of Bessborough and his Countess. To preserve Empire amenities, Canadian women's organizations are taking up a collection to present Lady Bessborough on her departure with a vase 16 inches high made by Canadian goldsmiths from Canadian gold...
Died. Prince Alexis Mdivani, 31, youngest of the three "marrying Mdivanis," onetime husband of Heiresses Louise Astor Van Alen and Barbara Hutton (Countess Haugwitz); in an automobile accident; near Albona, Spain. Seriously injured in the accident was Baroness Maud Thyssen, 28, reported estranged from her husband Baron Heinrich Thyssen. Prince Alexis was rushing Bareness Thyssen from the home of his sister Roussadara, wife of Painter José Maria Sert, to catch a train. Found by newshawks in Germany and informed of her onetime husband's death, Countess Haugwitz said: "I am terribly, terribly sorry. I am not surprised...
Freed by order of a New York Supreme Court from his marriage with Austrian Countess Marie Anne Paule Ferdinandine von Wurmbrand-Stuppach, 20, was Clendenin Ryan Jr., 28, grandson of the late great Thomas Fortune Ryan (TIME, May 14, 1934 et ante). The annulment confirmed the referee's recommendation made after secret hearings on the grounds that the Countess had 1) misrepresented her social position, wealth, upbringing; 2) been bought off in two previous engagements; 3) married Socialite Ryan intending shortly to dissolve the marriage, obtain a settlement enabling her to return to a previous love. With obvious reference...
Married. Lady Daphne Finch-Hatton, 21, daughter of Sir Guy Montagu George Finch-Hatton. 14th Earl of Winchilsea and Earl of Nottingham; and Whitney Straight, 22, Manhattan socialite automobile racer; in London, four days after the marriage of her brother, Viscount Maidstone, to Countess Gladys Széchényi (TIME, July...
...Married. Countess Gladys Szechenyi, 21. daughter of Count Laszlo Szechenyi, Hungarian Minister to the Court of St. James's, and of the former Gladys Vanderbilt; and Christopher Guy Heneage Finch-Hatton, Viscount Maidstone, 23, only son of Sir Guy Montagu George Finch-Hatton. 14th Earl of Winchilsea and Earl of Nottingham, and of the former Margaretta Armstrong Drexel of Philadelphia; in London...