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Engagement Broken. Mary Landon Baker, Chicago heiress; with Bojidar Pouritch, onetime Jugoslav consul in Chicago (TIME, Nov. 1). Reported reason: M. Pouritch is not of noble blood...
...Wislack (Violet Kemble Cooper), widow, will experiment for one month with the temperament of mild Richard Halton (Wallace Eddinger) before risking another matrimonial venture. The Duke of Bristol (Hugh Wakefield) is more of an opportunist. He sets his suave cap for immediate acquisition of Helen Hayle (Kathlene MacDonell), heiress and best friend of the canny widow. After a skirmish of wits, with no insults barred, provided only that they be smooth-edged as befits Mrs. Wislack's Scottish mansion, the Duke and Heiress are left to their own dangerous company, while the less keen, more pleasant couple enter holy...
Engaged. Mary Landon Baker, Chicago heiress, famed because four years ago she refused at the church to wed her onetime fiance Allister McCormick (Harvester scion) ; to Bojidar Pouritch, until recently Jugoslav Consul at Chicago...
...tragic skeleton, at least, is reproduced in true proportions. Morgan Farley throws himself wholeheartedly into the role of Clyde Griffiths, a poor boy who suffers the hard loneliness of being just beyond the pale of all for which he yearns. Unexpectedly, he discovers in Sondra Finchley, beautiful heiress, a sweetheart who will fulfill his dearest, vainest dreams. But in the poor factory girl, Roberta Alden, he has already set up a barrier to marriage with Sondra-the result of a lonely, passionate, summer romance. Too sensitive to break with Roberta, top weak to give up Sondra, he is driven...
LESS THAN KIN-Charles Caldwell Dobie-The John Day Co ($2). Adrienne was a child of love, conceived in lyric sin. Her mother was Elizabeth Sinclair of the amber eyes, inscrutable, majestic, heiress of a clan which had its roots in the shade of a southern plantation and its later branches in opulent California; her father, the great Kajetan, fiery master of the piano, a sort of Pietro Mascagni of fiction, with huge handfuls of blue-black hair and the hot blood of Italy's vine-clad valleys. Elizabeth Sinclair died soon after Adrienne was born; Kajetan, like...