Word: heiresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Cannes on the languorous Riviera came a romantic dispatch from Columnist Elsa Maxwell. She had overheard a conversation between Heiress Barbara Hutton and her new (fourth) husband, Prince Igor Troubetzkoy. Heiress Hutton: "Igor, you are so vague today." Prince Igor: "Naturally, darling, when I am living in a wonderful dream." Crowed happy Columnist Maxwell: "A neat phrase, and he looked as though he meant it." Barbara was going to take Igor to her nest in Tangier, said Miss Maxwell. "Barbara's bathroom looks out on a minaret. Every evening as the muezzin calls the faithful to prayer...
...engaged slinky Li Lihua, one of China's leading actresses, who gets $70 million CN a picture (U.S. $1,400). Li Lihua's role was that of a widow, down to her last dress. She advertises for a husband and gives the impression that she is an heiress. The villain, a wealthy Chinese, reads the ad while in a barber's chair. Fearing his own wife's reactions if he answers it, he persuades the handsome barber to pretend that he is the tycoon, marry the girl, split the profits later...
Scene of the hunt for 20-year-old heiress Anne Straw, missing from her Holderness, N. H., country home for ten days, switched from the bottom of Squam Lake yesterday to here in Cambridge...
...mobs . . . hit Page 1, as expected." He quoted one of his 1941 columns: "Secret of the unlimited cash of Virginia Hill, mystery girl who tossed bales of dough around Miami Beach this winter, is a Chicago bookmaker." The AP, however, gallantly continued to refer to her as an heiress...
Born. To Ruth Elizabeth ("Bazy") McCormick Miller, 26, favorite niece of Uncle Robert McCormick and heiress apparent to his Chicago Tribune empire; and Maxwell Peter Miller Jr., 28: their second child, first son; in Chicago. Name: Mark McCormick (for her maternal grandfather, the late Mark Hanna). Weight...