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Barbara Hutton Grant, five-&-dime heiress, surprise-partied her newlywed personal maid and chauffeur at her Bel-Air, Calif, estate with a guest list of 50 chefs, valets, butlers, maids. Cinemactor Gary Grant, the hostess' estranged husband, sent his valet with a check for the happy couple. Hit of the evening-aside from the mistress' serving-was the little performance of sleight-of-hand tricks by Edwards, butler to Lady Mendl. "Miss Hutton did practically everything but wash the dishes," observed one breathless, gratified guest. The party over, "Miss Hutton" and her house guest, the Baroness de Rothschild...
...story : the impoverished and wolfish Duke of Bristol (Clive Brook), his impoverished and meek friend Richard (Ro land Culver), a statuesque American pickle heiress (Googie Withers) enamored of the Duke, and a heartless, sporty widow named Mrs. Wislack (Beatrice Lillie) abandon London's high life for the widow's island shooting lodge in Scotland. Mrs. Wislack's shocking intention is to take cringing Richard for a month "on approval" before she decides whether to make an honest and rich...
...course of a few weeks' rustication, the pickle heiress realizes what a monument of selfishness the Duke is, and gets over her love for him. Richard wearies of making spaniel eyes at the termagant widow and rejects her quite brutally when she decides he'll do. And all four, neck-deep in subplot and mutual deception, spend a rambunctiously funny night dreaming about each other (the principals as living statues in slow, then fast motion...
Princess Elizabeth, 18, heiress presumptive to the throne of England, christened her first battleship, the mightiest ever built in the British Isles. The craft (name unrevealed, but "an honored one in British naval tradition") is supposed to be about the size of the U.S.'s new Iowa class battleships (world's largest), is expected to cut its teeth on the Japanese in the Pacific...
Married. Agnes Pyne Bacon McLean, 29, golden-haired Manhattan heiress (National City Bank), former wife of Socialites John R. ("Jock") McLean of Washington and Robert 0. ("Bunty") Bacon Jr. of Newport; and Ronald ("Ronnie") Hudson, 27, Australian-born in surance man; he for the first time; in Manhattan...