Word: liz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most famed U. S. jumping Jill is Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, a spirited, devil-may-care rider who has been winning blue ribbons on the horseshow circuit for 15 years. Before her marriage to Croesusrich young Whitney in 1930, Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus was well known in the hunt country around Philadelphia. After acquiring the 2,200-acre, million-dollar "Llangollen" estate near Upperville, Va., Liz Whitney became the most glamorous horsewoman in the U. S. Her drawing-room gum-chewing, social-worker hairdo, haphazard clothes were aped by many lesser socialites. Her riding technique became the very pattern...
Last week, after virtually deserting show rings for a year (while hobnobbing with Hollywood folk), Liz Whitney reappeared at Madison Square Garden. To the galleries' shouts of "Come on, Liz!" she rode four of her entries. But at week's end, no Whitney horse" had qualified for the championship final...
...Hexameter, ridden by Patricia Bolling, a 99-lb., 22-year-old wisp whom many experts consider the most skillful young horsewoman in the U. S. today. Though Hexameter was nosed out of victory by his stablemate, Illuminator, spectators who had kept their eyes on the horses agreed that Liz Whitney had lost her reign...
...blend of gusty Tallulah Bankhead, smoldering Miriam Hopkins, redheaded Erin O'Brien-Moore, flashing Paulette Goddard. For Scarlett, Producer Selznick scanned one after another of the public's suggestions, considered as well young Actresses Margaret Tallichet and Arlene Whalen, Mrs. John Hay Whitney, nee Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus (his backer's wife). On his problems Producer Selznick has for nearly two years been pondering. And other studios, expecting that the cinema Gone With the Wind would be a first-rate harbinger for a whopping cycle of Southern pictures, waited patiently for Producer Selznick...
Last week, after spending several years trying to find a new plot, Playwright Lonsdale turned up with an old one. It led off with a butler, a decanter of port and the Sunday Observer, and soon made plain that the Duke of Hampshire (Hugh Williams) was carrying on with Liz Pleydell (Viola Keats) and that the Duchess (Ina Claire) wasn't going to be too obliging about it. From then on, the situations were as familiar to veteran Lonsdaliers as are way stations to veteran commuters...