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...Irving Berlins' daughter Mary Ellin-whose maternal grandfather was Postal Telegraph Magnate Clarence Mac-kay-became engaged to Dennis Sheedy Burden, a socialite with a Newport background. This moved Manhattan's earthy...
Maladjusted. In Manhattan, the Ellin Prince Speyer Hospital for Animals informed the press that it had successfully treated a cat suffering from an eggnog hangover, might yet cure another that refused to eat until it had heard the scale played on a harmonica...
Daniel M. Pierce '49--Ellin Fetcheimer (Radcliffe...
...Mary Ellin Berlin, 17, brunette, bright-eyed daughter of Songwriter Irving Berlin, made her formal debut at the Allied Flag Ball and Debutante Cotillion in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria (with 97 other young socialites whose parents had contributed $1,000,000 worth of bonds), brought back memories of the days when her novelist mother, Ellin Mackay Berlin, was Manhattan's brightest debutante...
Clarence Mackay would not give his consent to Ellin's marrying Berlin. On New Year's Eve, 1925, Berlin admitted defeat and, after pouring his passion into All Alone, prepared to sail for Europe. Then Ellin agreed to marry him despite her art-collecting, opera-patronizing, horse-racing parent. She ran away with the most popular U.S. songwriter since Stephen Foster. Clarence Mackay disinherited her from the fortune that had once been counted in the tens of millions, did not forgive the Irving Berlins until his own marriage (his second) to Opera Singer Anna Case...