Word: heiress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Called the Royal Coburg when it opened in 1818, the playhouse on the south side of the Thames was renamed the Royal Victoria when Victoria became heiress presumptive to the throne. A century ago it was a scene of splendor, with linkmen lighting theatergoers - including the young Victoria and her mother - across the undrained Lambeth marshes, where footpads lurked. There played the great Kean and the great Macready, while society folk goggled at the heavy curtain of looking glass that later had to be ripped out because its weight was pulling down the roof. Bits of the curtain served...
Barbara Hutton Grant, five-&-dime heiress, now suing Husband No. 2, ex-Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, to gain permanent custody of their 9-year-old son, admitted she had separated from Husband No. 3, Cinemactor Gary Grant, with "no chance for reconciliation." ("He isn't happy and I think it's best we part now. Besides, it's unfair and dishonest to take advantage of his name . . . because I am fighting to hold my child...
Doris Duke Cromwell, tobacco heiress, whose recent Reno divorce from James H. R. Cromwell was more recently invalidated in New Jersey, continued her legal struggle to divorce her husband. Her attorney's latest claims: 1) Cromwell had written his memoirs, threatened a series of intimate lectures, 2) Cromwell thought $1,000,000 might be an adequate settlement of the pending litigation...
Merry ("Madcap") Fahrney, red-haired cough-syrup heiress (TIME, April 19, 1943), who romped off to Buenos Aires two years ago after divorcing husband No. 5 and denouncing the U.S., declared herself finished with Nazi Baron Herbert von Strempel (up-to-the-last-minute favorite for No. 6) and ready to marry again. Her new intended was 20-year-old Carlos Ojeda, son of Mexico's Ambassador to Argentina. A short-time Columbia student, Carlos spoke enough English to reveal that she was "the most perfect cook I ever saw; she captured me by the tummy." Cried the thirtyish...
Barbara Hutton, $40,000,000 five-&-dime heiress, had a book on mother care thrown at her by ex-husband Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, who filed suit for custody of their nine-year-old son Lance. He charged her with neglecting to send Lance to school, allowing his teeth to decay, using "coarse and vulgar language" when he stayed with her and his stepfather, Cinemactor Gary Grant. The Count also charged that Lance had been encouraged to write coded notes to his mother, exhibited a decoded sample: "To hell with my father. I would like it if he died...