Word: scionness
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...conversation last week. The new young Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden might not be doing much at the moment (see col. 3), but the new young War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper had just signed the most drastic reorganization order the British Army has ever received. In effect this Mayfair scion, whose famed wife Lady Diana Manners played The Virgin in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle, ordered: "No more cavalry...
Divorced, LeBaron Colt, firearms scion, grandson of Rhode Island's onetime Senator LeBaron Bradford Colt; by Frances Jackson Reynolds Colt, daughter of North Carolina's Senator Robert Rice Reynolds; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty...
...notable women in Manhattan's Success Set are Mrs. Florence Nightingale Graham Lewis and Mrs. Clara Fargo Thomas. Mrs. Lewis, daughter of a Canadian truckman, now makes nearly a million dollars a year as Elizabeth Arden, cosmetics. Mrs. Thomas, socialite scion of the "Pony Express" Fargos, took up painting after her marriage to a Manhattan realtor. The two women are friends. Last week, between them, they had produced one of the oddest combinations of Culture, Art and Advertising ever seen...
...proud role of telling Englishmen that Germany is out for naval parity with them in the North Sea fell last week to that astute young scion of Prussia's old nobility, monocled Joachim von Ribbentrop who, after coming unscathed through the War as a swank Torgau Hussar, was briefly reduced to selling whiskey...
...Indiscretion (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) investigates the marital mishaps of the Lenhart family, Robert (Paul Lukas), Eve (Helen Vinson) and small Bill (David Jack Holt). Eve runs off with a worthless scion. Robert becomes attached to his devoted secretary (Madge Evans). Small Bill, almost handed over to his unscrupulous mother by a deluded judge, eventually stays with his father. Pleasantly played and decorated with MGM's best office, home and country house effects, all this manages to seem a little less banal than it sounds...