Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divorced. Edith Day, 30, comedienne, from Patrick Somerset, 29, English actor, by default, in Minneapolis, though she was in London, he in Hollywood, Calif. They first appeared together in 1920 in the English production of Irene. She charged that he was "continually drunk," used "vile and indecent" language, struck...
...Warren was a member of the Somerset Club, the Harvard Clubs of Boston and New York, the University clubs of both these cities, the Essex County Club, The Country Club, the Boston Athletic Association, the Automobile Club...
...going to pay the cost of the Hall-Mills case, not because she has any personal desire to solve the financial problem of Somerset county resulting from that litigation, but because she owes certain taxes to the county because of her inheritance, and the county is going to devote the money realized from the inheritance tax to defray the expenses of the case...
...estate (since grown to $89,700,000) left by To- baccoman Duke, state inheritance tax alone was $2,581,366.57. Of this, Somerset County, N. J., is entitled to 5%, which is more than $125,000. Surrogate (Supervisor of Wills) Calvin McMurtrey of Somerset County is expected to get $89,000 in fees. In Somerset County is the 20,000-acre Duke estate, which has 35 miles of paved roads and many fine landscapes adorned with "beautiful statues." There are also Duke homes in Charlotte, N. C., Newport, R. I. and one in Manhattan, on Fifth Avenue, which is thought...
...Constant Wife. And what have the privations of monogamy to do with wifely constancy? queries W. Somerset Maugham in a play for children over sixteen. His heroine, Constance Middleton (Ethel Barrymore), observes her husband's liaisons with an indulgent smile, tacitly assumes the right to go and do likewise -and does. Her husband can take it or leave it. As the curtain falls, he takes it with a hard gulp, while she sweeps off to Italy for a six weeks' amorous sojourn with her bachelor admirer. A daughter is in "infinitely more competent hands," a boarding school. Love...