Word: rosamond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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INVITATION TO THE WALTZ-Rosamond Lehmann-Holt ($2). U. S. letters in any department are no longer colonial to Britishers, with the possible exceptions of detective stories and letters-to-the-Times. But while a glaring U. S. dawn silhouets many a crude indigenous growth, England's politely setting sun bathes her literary garden in a relatively classic glow. English readers dislike and distrust such experimenters as James Joyce and David Herbert Lawrence. And many a U. S. reader, Tory if no longer colonial, shares the British dread of untrimmed edges, prefers the clipped formality of more traditional writers...
...writers have been so infallible as Rosamond Lehmann. Dusty Answer (1927) might have been a lucky strike; A Note in Music showed it was not. In Invitation to the Waltz Authoress Lehmann, with sure and delicate touch, tells a tale of vernal English virginity. Olivia and Kate were sisters, both pretty, but different. Kate was neat, chic, determined; Olivia dowdy and diffuse. Both were beside themselves with breathless ambition at the prospect of Lady Spencer's dance-Olivia's first. Their hard-put-to-it mother had relaxed so far as to let them invite a young Oxonian...
...Author. U. S. readers who chuckle and sniffle over her books may be pleased to know that Rosamond Lehmann has U. S. blood, comes from the same family as Playwright Owen Davis. Her father, the late Rudolph Chambers Lehmann, was on Punch's editorial staff, was better known as one of England's mightiest oars. Aged 31, Authoress Lehmann is married to Arlist Wogan Phillips, nephew of towering Lord Kylsant who spent the past year in jail for malfeasance in connection with the affairs of the Royal Mail Line (TIME, Aug. 12, 1931 et seq.). Like Infant James...
...Rockville, Md. Married. John Gilbert, 35, film actor; and Virginia Helen Briggs (Virginia Bruce), 21, film actress; in Hollywood. His three earlier wives: Olivia Burwell, Leatrice Joy, Ina Claire. Separated. Sacha Guitry, actor, famed as "the perfect lover"; and Yvonne Printemps, actress; in Paris. Seeking Divorce. Rosamond Pinchot Gaston, niece of Pennsylvania's Governor Gifford Pinchot; from William Gaston, Manhattan lawyer. With her to Reno went her brother Gifford Pinchot II, seeking divorce from Janine Voisin Pinchot, daughter of a French automobile manufacturer...
...ROSAMOND K. BENDER...