Word: gloria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...private chambers of a New York Supreme Court justice in Manhattan one day last month a thin, nervous little girl of 10 sat swinging her spindly legs from a fat leather swivel chair. She was Gloria Vanderbilt, scion of one of the great socialite families of the U.S. Gently questioning her in clipped accents was a judge whose big body filled his ample chair and whose funny little goatee waggled up and down as he talked. An oldtime Tammany politician from the East Side, Justice John Francis Carew had hitherto known Vanderbilts, Whitneys, Astors, Goulds only as so many shadowy...
Divorced. Michael Farmer, 31, Irish sportsman; by Film Actress Gloria Swanson, 33; in Los Angeles. Grounds: he was quarrelsome, abusive at the mention of U. S. politics; when she tried to discuss a radio speech of President Roosevelt he told her "she didn't know anything about politics and wasn't good at anything else." He was Miss Swanson's fourth husband, father of a two-year-old daughter, Michele Bridget...
Most interesting to minds of a radical turn should be the course of the legal controversy as to whose tender wing shall harbor the person of little ten-year old Gloria Vanderbilt until she comes of age, that of Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney or that of Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt. After some weeks of tedious briefs, replications, rejoinders, evidence from the kitchen, and random scurrility, the Supreme Court has closed its cars to further discourse concerning the whimsies of the elite. Justice Carew, a modern Solomon as it were, assured the public Wednesday that the child ". . . is not to have...
...humor but says ''perhaps he had the greatest sense of the ridiculous of any man in modern times." When he laughed at a gag, audiences were sure to howl over it. The roster of his employes reads like a Hollywood Hall of Fame: Marie Dressier, Wallace Beery, Gloria Swanson, "Fatty" Arbuckle, W. C. Fields, Ben Turpin, Harold Lloyd, Weber & Fields, Lew Cody, Louise Fazenda, Bebe Daniels, Buster Keaton, Hal Roach, many another. It was Mack Sennett who imported Charlie Chaplin, overcame his disastrous first appearance by changing his make-up and costume. With a boilermaker's education...
...good as his word, Prince Gottfried zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg turned up in Manhattan to deny that he had been on a Biarritz bed with Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt and help Mrs. Vanderbilt regain her little daughter Gloria (TIME, Oct. 8). Said he: "It does look as if there is something very dirty back of all this." Demanded Mrs. Vanderbilt's brother, Harry Hays Morgan Jr., who had arrived from France a few days before: "He's a real prince, eh. what, to come all this way?" Besides Brother Harry, the prince found waiting to testify for Mrs. Vanderbilt...