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...Heiress (adapted from Henry James's Washington Square by Ruth & Augustus Goetz; produced by Fred F. Finklehoffe) turns a well-nigh perfect novel into a very imperfect but highly interesting drama. That is no trifling feat, for the novel is not very dramatic. Mr. & Mrs. Goetz give the story more kick by settling for less art. At their worst, they are not so much collaborating with Henry James as colliding with him; but on the whole they do a good job. Famed Director Jed Harris (Broadway, The Front Page, Our Town) does a better...
...Heiress*-a period play of mid-19th Century Manhattan-centers in Catherine Sloper (strikingly played by Britain's Wendy Hiller), an awkward, passive, plain-looking girl with great expectations. She falls passionately in love with an attractive fortune hunter (well played by Peter Cookson); but her coldhearted, sardonic father (well played by Basil Rathbone), thoroughly aware of the suitor's motives and utterly unconcerned with his daughter's feelings, forbids the match on pain of disinheritance...
Born. To Count Court von Haugwitz-Reventlow, 52, and his second heiress-wife, Margaret Drayton Reventlow, 31 (great-granddaughter of Mrs. William Astor): a son, her first, his second (his first was by Heiress Barbara Hutton); in Newport, R.I. Name: Richard Court. Weight...
Married. Amon G. Carter, 68, bumptious, oil-rich publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram; and Minnie Meacham Smith, 45, Fort Worth department-store heiress; he for the third time, she for the second; in Fort Worth...
Divorced. Ann Cooper Hewitt Gay Bradstreet Whitaker, 33, who once suffered national tabloid fame as the "sterilized heiress"; by her third husband, Mining Operator John Whitaker, 56; after six years; in Reno. Heiress Ann (daughter of Inventor Peter Cooper Hewitt) in 1936 filed a lurid suit (eventually dropped) charging that her mother had had her illegally sterilized...