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Like most of the events in Stark Young's life, this one was a shooting of the most fashionable rapids. He opened the proceedings with a lecture to 53 lady friends of Greece and art, including the Marquise de Talleyrand-Perigord, Countess di Zoppola, Countess Mercati. Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt and a clutch of male critics and writers...
Died. May Imelda Josephine Irwin, 74, Dowager Countess of Limerick, Dublin society beauty of the '80s; in ghost-ridden Hall Place, her palatial home in Bexley, England. She periodically reported encountering the armored ghost of Edward the Black Prince, found it "dreadfully distressing...
Married. Prince Franz Josef II, 36, ruler of the half-pint-sized (65 sq. mi.) peaceful Principality of Liechtenstein, between onetime Austria and Switzerland; and Countess Gina Wilczek, 21, granddaughter of the late Viennese Count Hans Wilczek; in Vaduz, Liechtenstein...
...years. He became something of a Vienna figure-his wretched German, his broad-brimmed Stetson hat, his high-laced shoes, his corner seat in Vienna's Cafe Louvre, his troubles with women (for some time he lived with a supposedly sinister elderly Russian woman known as "The Countess"). In July 1941, U.P. fired him for "nonperformance...
...night fire broke out in the old Harry Payne Whitney mansion in Newport, drove. the occupants to the gardener's cottage. The refugees: Countess Laszlo Szechenyi (the former Gladys Vanderbilt), Daughters Sylvia and Nandine, the countess' grandchildren, son and daughter of the Earl and Countess of, Winchelsea. Estimated damage...