Word: heiresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Jean Harlow is a platinum blonde and plays the part of a society girl seems little cause for this misnomer. There is scarcely any connection between the title and the story of the reporter who leaves his faithful girl pal on the paper to marry the snobbish society heiress. The confines of the plutocracy make him unhappy, and he returns to the comparative freedom of his independence, via a pending divorce, and finds his true love in the girl he left behind...
...sister, her mother and stepfather, Stanley Faithfull, a not prosperous chemist and salesman for a pneumatic mattress concern. Lean, gimlet-eyed, red-whiskered, bewildered, he talked & talked to the thronging newshawks who came away with many conflicting stories and white lies. For some reason his daughter was made an "heiress" by the first sensational stories, a description soon dropped by all but the tabloids. But other newspapers kept the family endowed with an air of gentility, apparently as an excuse to give the story special attention...
Married. Margaret G. Spence, foster-daughter and heiress of the late Clara B. Spence who founded Manhattan's socialite Spence School for Girls, ward of Principal Charlotte S. Baker of the school; and George Callendine Heck Jr., Manhattan socialite, Harvard man (1930); in Manhattan...
Married. Ethel Mallinckrodt Dorrance, daughter of the late President John Thompson Dorrance of Campbell Soup Co. and heiress to one-eighth of his $150,000,000 estate; and Tristram C. Colket of Haverford, Pa.; in Radnor...
Reports that he sought to see Actress Monterey last week were denied in a statement issued by Playwright O'Neill's lawyer. Another lawyer denied that Mr. Barton had hoped to marry Ruth H. Kresge (5? & 10? store heiress) who sailed to Europe last week with her fiance Rufus Clark Caulkins...