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...their hands on the Whitney estate, heirs had to pay state taxes of $9,513,000. Principal beneficiaries were his widow Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; his daughters (Mrs. Flora Whitney Miller and Mrs. Barbara Whitney Henry); his son Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney who got the largest share and is currently active in aviation, technicolor movies and other businesses...
...Edith (Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry, widow of George Vanderbilt), Lila (Mrs. William Seward Webb), and Florence (Mrs. Hamilton McK. Twombly); Nephew Erskine Gwynne; Grandsons Cornelius, George and William Henry Vanderbilt and Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney; Granddaughters Gladys and Sylvia Szechenyi, Barbara (Mrs. Barklie McKee Henry), Cathleen (Mrs. Lawrence Wise Lowman), Flora (Mrs. G. Macculloch Miller), Grace (Mrs. Henry Gassaway Davis III) and Cornelia (Mrs. Eugene B. Roberts); Grandniece Consuelo (Mrs. Earl E. T. Smith); Great-grandsons Whitney and Roderick Tower, William Barklie Henry, Harry Payne Whitney II; Great-grand-daughters Flora Miller, Gertrude Henry, Nancy Whitney...
...Georgics ("Happy would be the men of the fields if they knew their good fortune") as his inspiration, Artist White painted a large oak beneath which is seated Cybele (Great Mother of the Gods). At her right is Pomona (Goddess of Fruit Trees), at her left, Ceres (Mother Earth). Flora, Goddess of Flowers, dreams while Pan flutes. There are also a grandfather who explains the gods, some reapers and sheep. Thomas Gilbert White, born 56 years ago in Grand Haven, Mich., has spent most of his life in Paris. A long-haired eccentric boulevardier, he paints with intense seriousness...
...sense. Arriving in Russia a bewildered, unsophisticated German child-princess, she learns she is not wanted by the heir apparent, Grand Duke Peter (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.). But she changes his mind when she inadvertently meets him. Married, she wins the trust of Russia's clever, lustful Empress Elizabeth (Flora Robson). The Grand Duke is moody, ill-tempered, pathological. He seeks Catherine's bed only when-like Queen Christina under different circumstances-she says she has had 17 lovers. When Elizabeth dies the new Emperor Peter III rules recklessly, becomes increasingly suspicious of Catherine and of all others whom...
...mishaps of prostitutes, millionaires and college footballers, Carl Laemmle Jr's Universal studio specializes darkly in supernatural pasquinades. The hero of The Invisible Man is as nasty a pumpkinhead as Frankenstein's monster or The Mummy. He is a young physician named Griffin, whose love for beauteous Flora Cranley (Gloria Stuart) is not sufficient to prevent him from discovering a drug which not only makes him invisible but turns him simultaneously into a homicidal lunatic...