Word: duchesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poland, turn up there to be patronized by the newly rich and betray my blood and breeding? Never!" He disapproved, "does not care for Mr. Felton." Married. Sir Basil Zaharoff, 74, "man of mystery of Europe," whose great wealth has armed armies, financed nations, shaped policies, to the Duchess of Marchena, relative of the Kings of Spain; at Chateau de Balincourt, near Paris. Divorced. Mrs. Gene Gowen from Albert I. Gowen; in Chicago. The charge was neglect. Two years ago, the Gowens honeymooned in their 98-ft. yacht, Speejacks, crossed the Atlantic, the Pacific, weathered a China Sea monsoon, slipped...
Sued for Divorce. The Duke of .Westminster, in London, by the Duchess. The charge: cruelty and misconduct. Sued for Divorce. G. Hall Roosevelt, brother of Franklin D. Roosevelt, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Mrs. Roosevelt's charges were kept secret...
These misdemeanors are laid to the malignant influence of the spirit of Don Juan, summoned by the inquisitive Duchess in her spiritualistic seances. Later, the specific malefactor is determined to be the astral body of a bashful young professor who is engaged in teaching the daughter of the household poetry...
Promptly the pious Duchess falls in love with the professor. Through a misarrangement of rendezvous, the second act curtain finds her in the darkened living room?and in the arms of her butler. Meanwhile the maid of the household and the daughter fall in love with the same Professor. Through a second misarrangement, the maid entertains the daughter's visiting fiance while the daughter wanders through the gardens learning other things but literature from her Professor...
...obvious that such adventures must be discussed by the most suavely proficient of players in the lightest and most sophisticated of moods. Laura Hope Crews as the Duchess, Leslie Howard as the Professor, Marion Coakley as the daughter and Vincent Serrano as the butler lend just those touches that make the whole thing possible. Despite their silken methods, the purple patches of the play are as dull as they are daring, while the rest of it is light comedy in its most advanced and animated state...