Word: maud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MAUD B. BOOTH...
...Pine Lake, Mich., Florence Tabor Critchlow, onetime mystery story writer, took poison, died. Neighbors remembered that twelve years ago, while rummaging in the cellar of her mother's home, she had opened the "hope chest" of her missing sister Maud, found Maud dead inside. Maud Tabor's mother was tried for murder; but the jury disagreed when State pathologists discovered that the girl had died after an illegal operation. The mother, who is now 92, was never retried. She said she had hidden the body because "Maud did not want to be separated from me, even in death...
Born. To Alfred Cecil Durban, onetime British newsboy, and Mrs. (Vivienne Maud Huntington) Durban, daughter of the late Manhattan Architect Charles Pratt Huntington, heiress to part of the fortune of the late Railman Collis Potter Huntington; a daughter. 10 lb.; in Logansport, Ind., where the Durbans sought to hide from the public eye. Name: Frances Charlotte...
...Chester Dale, Maud to the world of art, is the small, tawny-haired, vivacious daughter of Artist Frank Murray, onetime dramatic editor of the New York Herald. She paints landscapes and murals, collects pictures, writes books about them. For the past two years a handsome series of yellow-bound quartos on Modern Art have been appearing over the colophon of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Maud Dale wrote two of these books, one on Picasso, one on Modigliani. Booksellers know that not Alfred Knopf but Maud Dale is paying the publication cost of the whole series...
...Paris lent portraits of lovely ladies for the open show. Artists represented ranged from early Romantic Théodore Géricault. Courbet, Cabanel to ultramodern Marie Laurencin and Jean Lurçat Lovely ladies painted included the Duchess of Rutland Russian Dancer Ida Rubenstein (by Leon Bakst) and Maud Dale thingly disguised as Mme D. by Jean...