Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pleased was the venerable statesman's much younger wife, the onetime Miss Helena Schilizzi of London, ambitious, vivacious heiress of a rich Greek. She, rumors told, supplies the motivation for her husband's latest grasp at Power...
Many a sportsman has his pilot's license, his private plane. But not until last week could he look forward to the prospect of a day at his flying country club. Miss Ruth Rowland Nichols, Junior Leaguer of Rye, N. Y., enthusiastic amateur aviatrix with a non-stop flight from New York to Miami to her credit, shouldered the task of promoting three clubs in New York and New Jersey, forerunners of a nation-wide chain of private and exclusive country clubs devoted to aeronautical sports. Associated with Promoter Nichols are such younger capitalists as William A. Rockefeller, William...
...Park Avenue owners. Said Carl Helm, critic of the New York Sun: "Of course, we may expect things like this during the hot spell, along with the hives and sunburn, the difference being that you can do something about hives and sunburn." Be that as it may, Miss Alney Alba who plays the virgin is a pleasant happening among the flea-circuses on 42nd Street...
...Scandals. Earnest Sally (Bessie Love) leaps from the chorus to save the show on the opening night, when the haughty star becomes temperamental. The star, ousted, tries to play a dastardly trick on Sally, but fails. Sally also has matrimonial difficulties, which are eventually solved by the kindly producer. . . . Miss Love is adequate; that...
Died. Sir David Yule, 69, "richest Scotch merchant," widower parent of Miss Gladys Yule, 24, to whom he leaves 20 million pounds; at London. Son-in-law of the late Andrew Yule of Calcutta, India, Sir David prodigiously expanded the firm of Andrew Yule & Co., Ltd., and founded 80 adidtional firms in which he retained controlling interest. In 1926 he contributed largely to an unselfish syndicate of liberals who purchased the Daily Chronicle from David Lloyd George at a price which netted the Welshman $14,500,000 profit and under an agreement whereby Liberal Lloyd George still controls the policy...