Word: drexel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Happiest Millionaire was Philadelphia's Anthony J. Drexel Biddle (1874-1948). Kyle Crichton, who helped write My Philadelphia Father with Biddle's daughter Cordelia, has rerouted the biography for the stage. Certainly this most redblooded of bluebloods, most warm-hearted of hotheads, most brotherly-loving of eccentrics-who turned teetotaler and collected alligators, boxed with professionals and gave a voice recital without having a voice-cried out to be a stage character. The stage problem, plainly enough, was to give some sort of connection to Father's disconnected crazes and sudden whims; the stage difficulty...
...when, accordingly, there is very little fun to the show. What has too often happened is that a truly unconventional kind of man has been exploited for an utterly conventional kind of farce. For most of what takes place, The Happiest Millionaire did not need an Anthony J. Drexel Biddle; it needed only a farce mixmaster like George Abbott. Frequently, for that matter, it still does...
...middle of what she claims was her family, a world dominated by a pleasantly enthusiastic millionaire who believes in having fun ("You can't save life, or store it, or put it in a vault. You have to plunge in.") The play's purpose is to show Mr. A.J. Drexel Biddle and his family plunging...
Died. Margaret Thompson Biddle, 59, Montana-born mining heiress, ex-wife of wealthy Soldier-Diplomat Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., grande dame of American society in Paris since World War II, sometime authoress (Women' of England) and Paris newshen (Realties, farflung columnist for Woman's Home Companion); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Paris...
...this uproarious memoir Cordelia Drexel Biddle (now Mrs. T. Markoe Robertson) serves up a Philadelphia pepper pot of stories about the Main Line's celebrated Biddies. Most of the book is about her father. Colonel Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, a punch-and-judo-throwing millionaire who led fully as strenuous a life as his good friend Teddy Roosevelt. As an amateur boxer, the bald, spike-mustached aristocrat fought under the name of "Tim O'Biddle." The great Ruby Bob Fitzsimmons called him one of the best amateur fighters he ever saw. In 1908 he went four roughhouse rounds...