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...Three-quarters of a million dollars, half of its eventual cost, have been expended upon it, but now Baha'i has no more money, and will ask for none. All contributions must be voluntary, from people to whom it represents an actual sacrifice. But Chicago rumor says that Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, who does not need to scrimp and sacrifice, was a large contributor to the building fund last year...
DWARF'S BLOOD?Edith Olivier?Viking...
...manner that seems oldfashioned, courtly, Victorian when compared with contemporary styles. At times reminiscent of her friend, David Garnett, she has none of Garnett's slyness; her implications are altogether moral. Member of an old Huguenot family that has lived in England for generations, daughter of a Victorian clergyman, Edith Olivier lives in Wilton, on the edge of Salisbury Plain, in a house that was once the dairy on the Earl of Pembroke's estate. Near neighbor is Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer?TIME, Sept. 29). Authoress Olivier rarely goes to London; when she does, Sylvia Townsend Warner...
...Edith Rockefeller-McCormick, mother of the groom, an extraordinary lady who eats from gold plates and indulges a fancy for advanced psychology and a faith in the real estate operations of two friends, Krenn & Dato. From her castle-home on Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, she sent word through her secretary that "she had nothing...
...Chicago Civic Opera had from 1920 until last year an able musical director. But many a Chicagoan believed that the Company's activities-the long-delayed premiere of Hamilton Forrest's Camille, for example-were hampered by Maestro Polacco's domestic difficulties with his wife. Edith Mason, an excellent soprano. Married twice before, Soprano Mason became his wife in 1919, divorced him in 1928 charging cruelty. "This," he said, "is certainly a dreadful blow to me." Then she married Dr. Maurice A. Bernstein. Chicago surgeon. Last October it was made known she would sing no more with...