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Near Versailles today is a chateau owned by a woman as rare in her way as the Countess. She is Ganna Walska and because she looks something like the famed courtesan she has made a hobby of collecting the Castiglione portraits, jewels, shawls, laces. As the Countess reincarnate Madame Walska decided to make a U. S. concert tour this winter. She arrived with 12 trunks full of costumes and after several dress rehearsals she took off last week in Philadelphia...
...four groups of German lieder Madame Walska had four sets of eye-filling costumes...
...engineering award), for his pre-eminence "in the fields of hydraulics and water supply, fire insurance economics and analysis of earthquake effects." Sued. Harold Fowler McCormick, 61, chairman of the finance committee of International Harvester Co., sometime husband of the late Edith Rockefeller Mc Cormick and of Operasinger Ganna Walska; by Rhoda Tanner Doubleday of Santa Barbara, Calif., onetime wife of Felix Doubleday (adopted son of the late Publisher Frank N. Doubleday) ; for $1,500,000, for breach of promise. Charge: that Mr. McCormick showed himself an "assiduous devotee," wrote over 50 love letters, made and later retracted a verbal...
Left. By Alexander Smith Cochran, sportsman, philanthropist, late president of Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Co.; a net estate of $38,977,237. To Thomas Ewing Jr., a nephew, went approximately $20,000,000. Excluded from the will was Ganna Walska McCormick from whom he was divorced in 1922 (she received a $300,000 settlement...
Married. Lele von Harrenreich Young Daly, 33, widow of Marcus Daly II, son of the founder of Anaconda Copper Mining Co.; and George John Djamgaroff, onetime press-agent for Ganna Walska, head of A. B. C. News Service (antiCommunist) ; in London...