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Born. To the onetime Leonora Hughes, 27, famed danseuse, now Mrs. Carlos Ortiz Basualdo, a son; on Feb. 17, in her Argentine home, whence the fact has just been broadcast by mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 29, 1926 | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

Engaged. Maurice Mouvet, famed as "Maurice," perhaps the most notable of Manhattan's professional male ballroom dancers, successively dance teammate of Florence Walton, Leonora Hughes, and Barbara Bennett; to Miss Eleanore Ambrose, whom he has been grooming for his dance partner for some months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 11, 1926 | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

General Sir Edward Hamilton Seymour appeared before the Committee to prove his claim to the duchy of Somerset, disputed by Lord Hertford. The case has been hanging fire since 1923, when the 15th Duke died, and hinged upon the validity of a marriage contracted by Colonel Francis Seymour and Leonora Hudson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Duchy of Somerset | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

General Seymour produced the story of his ancestor, told how he had rescued Leonora Hudson, a sailor's wife, from two ruffians, how he subsequently married her after the death of her husband in India. The General contended that John Hudson, husband of Leonora, died in 1786, was buried in Calcutta on Sept. 17 of the same year. On Sept. 3, 1787, Francis Seymour married her, became the ancestor of the plaintiff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Duchy of Somerset | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

Married. Miss Leonora Hughes, 26, partner of Maurice (Mouvet), famed dancer in cabarets and night clubs* in the U. S. and Europe, to one Carlos Basualdo, Argentine millionaire; in Manhattan. Maurice is said to have sobbed, groaned, wept piteously during the ceremony, was mollified when his ex-partner wept with him, invited him to the wedding breakfast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 2, 1925 | 3/2/1925 | See Source »

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