Word: countesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of March 13, under the heading People on p. 62, TIME implied that the Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow appeared before an English court & renounced the custody of her young son to ensure her Danish divorce going through...
...order of the English High Court of Justice had nothing to do with the divorce question, and merely confirmed the custody provisions of the Danish separation agreement, whereby the Countess has the custody of her son, Lance, for nine months each year until he is six years of age, and thereafter the custody of him for six months annually until...
...inference, from TIME'S statement, is that there was a bargain between the parties whereby the Countess gave up custody of her son to ensure a divorce. This is wholly incorrect, and unfair both to the Count and Countess...
...ensure her Danish divorce going through next year without further fuss, Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow finally agreed in Great Britain's High Court of Justice to give her husband, Count Court, "custody, care and superintendence" of their 2½year-old son, Lance until he is 21. Countess Babs will entertain her son on periodic visits. The rest of the time, she will have...
...parts are not so affected by Hollywood cutting as are some of the minor ones. Clark Gable, as the philosophical hoofer, Harry Van, gives one of the best performances of his career, since the part is ideally suited to his happy-go-lucky Americanism. Because she modeled her Russian Countess entirely too much on Lynn Fontanne's characterization, Norma Shearer is not so successful. Her Irene lacks the spontaneity of Gable's Harry Van. Yet with all its short-comings, "Idiot's Delight" is sustained by its immediacy of theme and powerful conflict of points of view...