Word: sister-in-law
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...native son. Directing his work with the Stadium Grand Opera Co. was Ernst Lert, longtime stage director at La Scala in Milan, dropped from the Metropolitan this year after two seasons. A facile lighting technician, Lert worked for sweeping effects in great patches of contrasted colors. His sister-in-law is Vicki Baum, playwright of famed Grand Hotel...
...week later he was telephoned by a man he had known in Pittsburgh and who had been trying to find him. By sheerest chance this man met Selznick's sister-in-law on a train to Pittsburgh. The man wanted Selznick to sell some stock in Universal pictures. Selznick sold the stock to Carl Laemmle, using a handful of diamonds left over from his store as an entering wedge. The stock gave Laemmle control of Universal and he gave Selznick a desk in the office. Selznick had a sign made which said "General Manager...
...imminent marriage in Bucharest of Princess Ileana of Rumania and Prince Anton von Habsburg, the bride's sister-in-law, Queen Helen of Rumania would be obliged to 1) appear with her eccentric, unfaithful husband King Carol, or 2) hide away. Last week she avoided both embarrassments by going to the home of her mother, onetime Dowager Queen Sophie of Greece, at Ascot, England. In October she will return to Bucharest for her son, Prince Mihai's tenth birthday...
...Percy Rockefeller, sister of James Stillman, whose husband is a cousin of the groom. In other words Mrs. Stillman's onetime sister-in-law becomes her cousin by marriage...
...sister Louise married Prince Alexis Mdivani last fortnight, thus becoming sister-in-law to Prince Serge Mdivani who was divorced last April from Cinemactress Pola Negri, and Prince David Mdivani who married Cinemactress Mae Murray...