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Mademoiselle Fifi (RKO-Radio), as admirers of Guy de Maupassant will remember, was the nickname of a bored, cruel young Prussian lieutenant in the Occupied France of 1870. His story is combined with that of Maupassant's Boule de Suif, gallant prototype of a hundred storied prostitutes who, in their humaneness and courage, shame their social betters...
Died. James Alexander Stillman, 70, socialite ex-president of the National City Bank of New York; in Manhattan. In 1921 he sued his wife "Fifi" (Anne Urquhart Potter Stillman) for divorce, sensationally and unsuccessfully alleging that the father of their son Guy was a Canadian Indian guide, Fred Beauvais. After her countercharge that Stillman was love-nesting with stage beauty Flo Leeds, he resigned his bank presidency...
...lush characters (Dickie, the epicene interior decorator, pipes: "I'm upholstering Fifi Vallambrosa's sofa entirely in ... tweeds. . . . We all know [it's] a one-story riding academy. What more endurable than tweed for the sporting life...
Died. Joseph Early Widener, 71, famed multimillionaire collector of purse-winning horses ; purse-weakening art ; of a heart attack; in Elkins Park, Pa. The shrewd, lavish Harvardman (father of Peter Arrell Brown Widener II, and "Fifi") inherited some $70,000,000 from his father, the late Civil War mutton provisioner P. A. B. Widener I - along with a gilt-edged collection of (chiefly Renaissance) Old Masters. He stabled such thoroughbreds as Fair Play (Man o' War's sire), steeplechaser Arc Light, and Osmond (his favorite), mounted in his white & scarlet such jockeys as the great Earle Sande...
Married. Joan Widener Leidy, 17, daughter of "Fifi" Widener Leidy Wichfeld (now 37) and granddaughter of Philadelphia's art-loving, horse-loving Millionaire Joseph E. Widener ; and George Eustis Paine Jr., 20; at Newport...