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Married. The Hon. Ivor Montagu, 22, third son of wealthy Jewish banker, Lord Swaythling, head of Samuel Montagu & Co.; to Typist Eileen Hellstern, daughter of a surgical shoemaker; secretly, in London...
...peer or peeress. Last week Aimée Geraldine, Baroness Michelham, created a sensation by announcing that her residence at 20 Arlington Street is for sale. . . . Should some oleagenous nouveau riche purchase historic "Number 20" he will have as neighbors: Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland (dilettante portrait painter) ; Ivor Churchill Guest, Viscount and Baron Wimborne (onetime [1915-18] Lord Lieutenant of Ireland); Lawrence Dundas, Marquess of Zetland, Baron Dundas (onetime [1889-92] Viceroy of Ireland); Alexander Henderson, Baron Faringdon (Chairman, Great Central Railway); Charles Alfred Worsley Anderson Pelham, Earl of Yarborough, Baron Worsley (owner of many a Rembrandt and Reynolds...
...Marlborough?like the Dukes of Rutland and Buccleuch, the Marquess of Granby and Viscount Novar?transformed his estates into a "private, unlimited company" under the title "Blenheim Estate Co." The Duke will be the hereditary governing director with a controlling share of the stock. The other stockholder is Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill, the Duke's second son. The Duke, whose first wife was Consuelo Vanderbilt, and who is one of the wealthiest peers of the realm, took this step to escape the crushing taxation which is levied upon private fortunes. The capital of the Company is about...
...picture serves to introduce Ivor Novello, a youth of brilliant promise. Unfortunately his work is overshadowed by the acting of Mae Marsh who puts into the part of the luckless working girl one of the finest performances in screen history...