Word: lehr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most readers, the value of contemporary reminiscences lies as much in what can be made out dimly between the lines as in what is boldly stated in the text. Last year the reminiscences of Mabel Dodge Luhan (European Experiences) and Elizabeth Drexel Lehr ("King Lehr" and the Gilded Age) were prime examples of such oblique candor. Although both authors revealed an intermittent circumspection, both were sufficiently engrossed in telling their own stories to make indirect admissions of which they appeared to be unaware. Cut in the same pattern as those books, The Countess from Iowa is nevertheless much less interesting...
...tycoon; and Olive Hamilton, 23, onetime Atlantic City telephone operator; aboard Mr. Leeds's yacht Moana, off Miami. Since 1930, when he rescued her from, drowning at Atlantic City, N. J., they have been constant companions. His first wife was Russian Princess Xenia Romanov. Married. Mrs. Henry Symes Lehr, 64, author last year of a sensational biography of her dead husband, "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age; and John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, Baron Decies, 70; in Paris. Divorced. Crooner Rudy Vallée, 34; by Mrs. Fay Webb Vallée, 29, daughter of the chief...
Engaged. Mrs. Elizabeth Drexel Lehr, 64, daughter of the late, great Philadelphia Financier Joseph William Drexel, widow of famed Socialite Playboy Henry Symes Lehr, of whom she last year wrote a bitter, best-selling biography ("King Lehr" and the Gilded Age) ; and the Baron John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford Decies, 70, representative peer for Ireland in Great Britain, whose first wife was the late Vivien, daughter of George Jay Gould; in Paris...
...KING LEHR" AND THE GILDED AGE- Elizabeth Drexel Lehr-Lippincott...
Undisciplined, purposeless, irresponsible, the great names in "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age careen from vulgarity to greater vulgarity, while poseurs prey on ignorance and snobbishness, social climbers spend fortunes trying to get accepted. Elizabeth Drexel Lehr fell in love, waited until after her mother's death to plan her divorce. Then her lover died. Harry Lehr had quieted down, showed symptoms of acute melancholia before the War, which finally put an end to his way of life. He grew more & more morose; his mind slowly failed; he became panic-stricken at the thought of his despised wife...