Word: dartington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Michael Whitney Straight, 23, son of the late Willard Dickerman Straight, founder of the New Republic and Asia, and of Mrs. Leonard Knight Elm-hirst, queen of Dartington Hall, vast educational experiment in Devonshire, England; and Belinda Booth Crompton, 19; in Wilton...
...worse, interdependent. Financial backing was the chief Jooss need after the U. S. visit in 1933. In England the sponsor was found-Mrs. Leonard Knight Elmhirst, an heiress to the U. S. Whitney fortune who, with her British husband, is striving to build up an idyllic artistic community at Dartington Hall in Devonshire...