Word: countesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born, To Marigold Rosemary Joyce, Countess of Londesborough, 34, and the late Hugo William Cecil Deniscm, Earl of Londesborough who died last April of pneumonia; a daughter; in London. The posthumous child will inherit the Earl's $5,000,000 but not his title, which became extinct for lack of male issue...
Annulled. The 1928 marriage of Ernst ^.iidiger, Prince von Starhemberg. 38, one-time Austrian Heimwehr leader, to Countess Maria Elizabeth von Salm-Reiffer-scheidt-Raitz, 29, by both religious and civil courts at Salzburg and Vienna. Proceedings have dragged on since 1935. when he Prince appealed for annulment because lis wife had borne no heirs to the Starhemberg estates (on which he now owes $60,000 tax arrears). Vienna rumor announced that he would be married this week to Actress Nora Gregor, a Max Reinhardt protegée, who has already given him a male heir...
Married. Clendenin J. Ryan Jr., grandson of the late great Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan and secretary to Manhattan's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, to Jean Harder, Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan. Mr. Ryan's 1934 marriage to Austrian Countess Marie Anne Paule Ferdinandine von Wurmbrand-Stuppack was annulled. His cousin, Basil ("Pat") Ryan, was married three weeks ago while "full of North Carolina corn," to one Martha Barkley. 21, mother of a two-months-old child...
...moral turpitude" became a national catch-phrase when U. S. immigration authorities used it as grounds for barring entrance into the U. S. of Vera, Countess Cathcart. Countess Cathcart's moral turpitude consisted of having been named as corespondent in a divorce case. Last week, "moral turpitude" suddenly popped up in U. S. headlines again for the first time in more than a decade. Occasion was the arrival in New York of Mme Magdeleine La Ferriére ("Magda de Fontanges"), Parisian journalist and actress who last spring pinked France's one-time Ambassador to Italy Count Charles...
...whisked to Ellis Island where, in an interview with ship news reporters she declared, "My only interest is to obtain a gainful occupation for the purpose of making an honorable living." Same day the Board of Special Inquiry, making a delicate distinction between her case and that of Countess Cathcart, excluded her not because of her amours but "because of an admission of a crime involving moral turpitude, to wit, assault with a dangerous weapon." Unless Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins reverses the Board's ruling on her fellow working woman, Magda de Fontanges will be sent back...