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Five and Dime Scion Lance Reventlow, one of the future's richest men, turned 21, was cheered by the gift of a $425,000 Beverly Hills estate, complete with waterfall, from his sixfold-married mamma, Heiress Barbara Hutton. Two days later, Speed Demon Reventlow, who flies low about town in a Mercedes-Benz and races in a scarlet Maserati, was uncheered on getting the boot from the Sports Car Club of America. Paying no mind to young Reventlow's third-place victory in an amateur sports-car race in Florida a year ago, the club, which permits...
...spent the next 24 hours dispatching business messages. Thus was born the notion of Kreuger as a dedicated, enigmatic Caesar of international finance. It was on another trip that Kreuger made his only recorded witticism. When asked by a ship reporter if he had come to marry an American heiress, the lifelong bachelor replied: "No, I much prefer a Swedish match...
...sense, the casting of Ballerina Beriosova as the female lead was more interesting than either plot or music, for it was further indication that she is the heiress presumptive to Margot Fonteyn as the company's prima ballerina. Born in Lithuania, Svetlana trained in New York and Paris, joined Sadler's Wells in 1950. With the retirement of Dancer Violetta Elvin (to marry for the third time), Beriosova stepped into more and more of Fonteyn's roles. More enthusiastically than ever, the critics applauded her lithe, leggy build, her cool, fluid movements, which are reminiscent...
...central situation-two worldly, hard-up people in love and secretly engaged, a doomed young heiress who is a friend of the girl's and in love with the man, the girl's idea that the man make the heiress happy by marrying her and simultaneously ensure their own happiness by becoming her heir-clearly lends itself to simple stage drama. But such a central situation comes only in very small or very large sizes; it can only succeed as something trashy or something tremendous. To tell the story in the theater, on James's own terms...
Just as Mrs. Dodds was about to give birth, Boswell met the very heiress he was looking for-Miss Catherine Blair, "the finest woman I have ever seen." Overjoyed, Bozzy rushed off to drink Miss Blair's health, got very tight and passed the night with "a whore worthy of Boswell if Boswell must have a whore." As "a just retribution for my licentiousness," he "got a disease from which I suffer severely...