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...opposite of an angel. Lady Ribblesdale went as Charlie Chaplin, Banker Mortimer Schiff as Oscar Wilde. Two socialite matrons chose to dress as "Ladies of the Temperance Union." Composer Cole Porter went as an oldtime footballer, his wife as a housemaid. Princess Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst wore the robes of a nun...
...Spain. Victoria rose, smiled, left the place. Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady, executive Chairman of Girl Scouts of America, widow of the late New York utilities Tycoon, was reported in the New York World as having lately talked with Pope Pius XI about entering a European convent to take a nun's novitiate, then founding a religious order of her own and becoming its mother superior. "Preposterous!" said Mrs. Brady's sister, Mrs. John Cavanagh of Norwalk, Conn. "A lie and sheer nonsense!" announced Mrs. Brady's secretary in London...
Last week Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art received notable gifts from 1) a nun, 2) an insurance clerk...
...nun is Mrs. Emilie Thorn Post, relict of Tycoon Edward C. Post. Last May she gave her highwalled villa at Newport, R. I. to the Carmelite Sisterhood for a nunnery, became a novice therein (TIME, May 26). Because nuns must be poor, she last week yielded to the Museum her husband's collection of rare paintings, drawings, miniatures, objects in gold, silver, marble, bronze...
Lady Diana Duff-Cooper, onetime Miracle nun, driving from Bognor to Lon- don, smashed into another car, was taken to a hospital suffering cut knees, shock...