Word: heiresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show base motives on the part of the lover (Monroe Owsley), persimmon-mouthed Helen Twelvetrees is made (unlike Rose Allen) a three-million-dollar heiress. Cad Owsley's villainy is further pointed by his having changed his name. The girl's father (Robert Warwick) and brother (Robert Young) see through his disingenuousness. Helen does not. To force a marriage, Owsley takes her to a hotel overnight, confronts the father next morning. Wild-eyed from an all-night search, the brother is knocked down by the suitor, gets a gun and shoots...
...sailed for India ancient Heiress Djanikian fervently exclaimed: "Thank God I have two sons!" Meekly they accompanied their $120,000,000 mother...
Reserved for Ladies (Paramount British) is a witty statement of the social status of a prince of London headwaiters (Leslie Howard) who falls in love incognito with a South African heiress (Elizabeth Allan). He follows her from shop to shop, picking up things she drops; to her hotel (whose dining-room autocrat he is); to the Austrian Tyrol. He is making progress against her sniggers when an incognito King (George Grossmith) comes to the inn, is ah'd and curtseyed at, recognizes Headwaiter Howard as an old friend. Howard explains his own incognito which the King respects, inviting...
When Major Sands, from the poop deck of the trading-ship Centaur, just under way from Antigua to England, sees the 40-gun Black Swan sidling up, he trembles for himself and for his charge. He is escorting back to England lovely Priscilla. daughter and heiress of Antigua's onetime governor, the late Sir John Harradine. The Centaur's captain maneuvers his ship like a fool and the only other passenger, de Bernis, is known to have been a buccaneer...
...Anne Weightman Penfield, 88, philanthropist, onetime "richest woman in the U. S.," relict of the late and last Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, Frederic Courtland Penfield; of pneumonia, after one day's illness; in Manhattan. At the death of her father, William Weightman, "the quinine king," she was sole heiress to a fortune of between $35,000,000 and $50,000,000, founded during the Civil War by selling quinine to the Federal Government (the old firm, Powers Si Weightman, was absorbed by Merck...