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...lady crackled, "To hell with the money. I want my husband's jewels back." Since she scarcely counts all her fives and dimes, Woolworth Heiress Barbara Mutton, 53, could afford to be cavalier about the cash. Anyway, the thieves who broke into her $1,500,000 mansion near Cuernavaca, Mexico, took only $20,240-and most of that was in traveler's checks. What burned Babs was that they footpadded off with the "irreplaceable" jewel collection of her seventh husband, Laotian Prince Raymond Doan Vinh Na Champassak. The princess felt so sentimental about the necklace with the gold...
Died. Sarah Mellon Scaife, 62, art patron and philanthropist, heiress to a share in the estimated $2.5 billion Mellon industrial and banking fortune, who in 1941 established the Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation (one of six similar Mellon foundations which have given away over $300 million), through which she donated $26 million to Pittsburgh universities, museums and charities; of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage; in Pittsburgh...
...life lies in a scrambled lineage that is the epito me of today's mobile society. Father Eddy Duchin was only the son of a pharmacist, and a paid performer at deb parties, until he caught the eye of Marjorie Oelrichs, descendant of a leading Newport family and heiress to the last scraps of a once immense mining fortune. When she married him, the Social Register struck her name from its rolls...
...Strindberg's play Miss Julie, whose morbid Freudian thickets "fitted me; I am fascinated with death." The Scandinavian setting, too, suited his Norwegian heritage, but he and Librettist Kenward Elmslie figured that the drama might have more impact if transformed into a love tragedy involving a Deep South heiress and her Negro servant. Timely and all that. Off to New Orleans they went to soak up some local color, only to belatedly discover that it "just wouldn't work." How about changing the locale to Hollywood, with the conflict between an actress and her understudy? "No," said...
Forgotten History. The bust was next" sold through the fabulous Lord Duveen to a Philadelphia heiress, Mrs. Eleanor Elkins Widener, first wife of a surgeon and explorer, the late Dr. A. Hamilton Rice, for a resounding $200,000. But when the bust arrived at Parke-Bernet its history had been forgotten; it was billed as merely another plaster copy...