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...Frederick K.; Sisters-in-law Emily (Mrs. Henry B. White), Edith (Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry, widow of George Vanderbilt), Lila (Mrs. William Seward Webb), and Florence (Mrs. Hamilton McK. Twombly); Nephew Erskine Gwynne; Grandsons Cornelius, George and William Henry Vanderbilt and Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney; Granddaughters Gladys and Sylvia Szechenyi, Barbara (Mrs. Barklie McKee Henry), Cathleen (Mrs. Lawrence Wise Lowman), Flora (Mrs. G. Macculloch Miller), Grace (Mrs. Henry Gassaway Davis III) and Cornelia (Mrs. Eugene B. Roberts); Grandniece Consuelo (Mrs. Earl E. T. Smith); Great-grandsons Whitney and Roderick Tower, William Barklie Henry, Harry Payne Whitney II; Great-grand-daughters Flora...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Nothing to Nothing | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

...Luttrellstown Castle, Clonsilla, Ireland, on a visit went Lady Sylvia Ashley and Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks, corespondent in Lord Ashley's suit for divorce. In Philadelphia. Pa., Mary Pickford said: "Men are like little boys- when they are tired of being naughty they are glad to come home.'' Harry (''Black Panther") Wills, who retired from heavyweight boxing ia 1932 and now owns two apartment houses in New York's Harlem, began the one-month fast which he has kept every February for the last 20 years, explained why he was late in starting his 21st...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 23, 1934 | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

...Sing Sing's Walter C. Brown had a garish interpretation of his jail's aviary; Michigan State Prison's Convict No. 15870 showed a hunched cellmate, a corner of the jailyard where straw-hatted inmates raked grass. Most arresting was a series of pencil sketches by Sylvia Carlisle of the Reformatory for Women in Framingham, Mass. depicting such routine incidents as The Rising Bell, The Bucket Line, Gymnasium, The Hospital. The anonymity of the convict's life she expressed by failing to draw features on any of her figures' faces. Even a starched-capped keeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Prisoners & Physicians | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

...Sylvia Sidney and Frederick March prove conclusively in "Good Dame" that the director, scenario writer, and author of a movie can be quite insignificant. Without a good story the, two speak poor lines so that one thinks that one is hearing the best lines from the best play of Shakespeare. No doubt it is quite difficult to believe that two simple souls can be quite perfect in the cinema. You think that these two hams are receiving too much credit, that no actor or actress from Hollywood could achieve so much fame legitimately. My opinion would blast all previous ones...

Author: By G. R. C., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

...young crook in the carnival business who takes money from unsuspecting fools in the game of Ace, King, Queen. His name is Mace, and he falls in love with a girl who has been filched of all her money by his partner in crime. The girl is Sylvia Sidney, and you are mistaken, she does not weep, and pity herself for twenty minutes. I have been wary in the past of placing any superlatives on Miss Sideny's ability, but she shows in "Good Dame" that she is as capable an actress as can be found in Hollywood today...

Author: By G. R. C., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

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