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Died. Lady Duff-Gordon (Lucy Sutherland) 71. famed dress designer, long-time president of Lucile Ltd. (now defunct), Titanic survivor, sister of Novelist Elinor Glyn; after six months' illness; in London. She was credited with the first split skirt, first manikin show, first application of the word chic to clothes. A poor businesswoman, she once told a recorder in bankruptcy that she did not know what a share of stock...
Married. Diane Chamberlain. 23, secretary and only daughter of Sir Austen Chamberlain; and Arthur Terence Maxwell, partner in Glyn, Mills & Co, London bankers; in St. Stephen's Chapel beneath the Houses of Parliament in London...
...Author. Daughter of a Canadian, widow of an Englishman (Clayton Glyn, J. P.), sister of a onetime London-Manhattan modiste (Lady Duff-Gordon), sixtyish, still handsome, Elinor Glyn has always exuded a faintly Hearstian phosphorescence. Considering herself a feline type, she strews her house in London, Paris, Hollywood with tiger and leopard skins, keeps two Persian cats who understand, she says, everything that is said to them. She and her sister as débutantes in London were famed for their brilliant wardrobe, much of it designed and made by themselves. Elinor Glyn began to write as a girl when...
...Hollywood, supervising one of her cinemas in which John Gilbert was playing, Author Glyn, dissatisfied with his efforts in a particular scene, asked: "Jack, can't you be passionate?" Replied Cinemactor Gilbert with a steady look...
...Author Glyn has a better idea of her work than her admirers have. Says she: "There's really no sex in my books. People, out of habit, say they are shocking. They are just love stories...