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Doris Duke is a trustee of the university that disturbed Economist Mitchell. She inherited $53,000,000 from her father. Depression shaved that fortune to $30,000,000, still let Miss Duke remain undisputed No. i heiress in the U. S. Her behavior as such was appropriate. Father Duke's polish was acquired by friction along the rough road to riches. But Mother Duke was born an aristocrat, Nanaline Holt, of a First Family of Macon, Ga. Gracious, conservative, charming, she became the second wife of Tycoon Duke, and five years later Doris was born. For her upbringing, Doris...
...Lady Detained (by Samuel Shipman & John B. Hymer; S. L. Latham, producer) offers Song-&-Danceman Oscar Shaw (Very Good Eddie, Flying High) in his first legitimate appearance, in which he is called upon to impersonate the leader of an impoverished gang of ex-bootleggers. An air-minded heiress (handsome Claudia Morgan) drops out of a fog into the mob's rural retreat. The lady is detained for ransom, and, as Playwrights Shipman & Hymer have one of their hoodlums say, she might easily have fallen into the hands of less humane snatchers who would have kept her in a cellar...
...town where she got work as a waitress she soon attracted the attention of Andi, a successful, aristocratic young judge. Andi was engaged to an heiress, but his heart was not in it. After protracted and pressing arguments, Sylvelie let Andi persuade her to marry him. For a while their happiness was idyllic. Then, by a stroke of legal accident, the papers in the three-year-old Lauretz case came into Andi's hands for review. His lawyer's nose immediately smelt a rat; he hounded his family-in-law until they finally confessed the crime. But Sylvelie...
Early in January Stokowski will take his wife (spectacular Johnson & Johnson heiress) and his two daughters on a trip to the Orient where he intends to study Japanese and Chinese music. But few believed last week that he had definitely retired from the U. S. musical scene. Stokowski at 52 is as ambitious and hard-working as he was in his twenties when he played the organ in St. Bartholomew's Church in Manhattan, saved his money so that he could hire orchestras abroad and start building up his fame as a conductor...
...amorous Baron is never sure whether his path is being crossed by a lovely maid or a courtly rival. True love, young, starlit and sudden, comes to the stage when Octavian, clad in shining satin and bearing a silver rose, is sent to ask a rich young heiress to marry the Baron. Most operas end tragically but when Octavian and Sophie have finished their duet it is clear love will triumph...