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Perhaps it started in her girlhood when "some interfering person" decided that little Loelia Ponsonby mustn't be taken to cowboy films any more because the flickers were bad for her eyes. Last week Loelia, Duchess of Westminster, 63, turned up in San Francisco to pursue her old fascination. Her Grace announced that she wants to buy one authentic stagecoach, a covered wagon that had survived an Indian attack, a saloon door (swinging) and other fond wild West relics to install for English schoolchildren at a museum of Americana at Bath...
Nonetheless. Loelia. Duchess of Westminster, did. So did Judy Garland. Richard Rodgers. Howard Lindsay, Russell Grouse. Alfred Lunt. Lynn Fontanne. and so on down the gold-plated guest list at the out-of-town premiere last week of Noel Coward's new musical comedy, Sail Away. The show will open in Manhattan Oct. 3, but first Coward's story, set on a Mediterranean cruise ship, will probably undergo a considerable shakedown. Involving miscellaneous love stories, particularly the experiences of an American wife (Jean Fenn) who loses her inhibitions under the Mediterranean sun. Sail Away is sometimes too reminiscent...
...West End. including the site of the U.S. embassy), the fun-loving duke was a World War I hero, a collector of great art (e.g., Gainsborough's The Blue Boy), and a ladies' man (four marriages, three divorces). To celebrate his third marriage (to Socialite Loelia Ponsonby) in 1930, he granted his poorer tenants remission of arrears and a week's free rent, but hoped in vain for a son to succeed...
...issue of TIME dated June 16, 1947, you referred to our client, Loelia, Duchess of Westminster as "recently divorced," thereby conveying the imputation that the Duchess, who had in fact been the petitioner in proceedings earlier in the year in which she was granted a decree of divorce against the Duke, had herself been the guilty party in the suit...
...impending quest. Some of the ladies objected; after a democratic vote, the majority went along with the auction plan. So Master-of-Ceremonies Baron Stanley of Alderley (he's terribly good at this sort of thing) mounted a chair in the sitting room. Cried he: "Now, who wants Loelia?" (the recently divorced Duchess of Westminster). Bidding was sluggish, and the ex-Duchess finally went for seven guineas. Blonde Princess Ali Khan, the Aga Khan's daughter-in-law, did better at a reported 15 guineas. Randolph Churchill, who could not stay late because he had to dash...