Word: winfields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warfield, she was named Wallis after her father who died when she was three. She divorced her first husband who is today Commander E. Winfield Spencer Jr., U. S. N. Since 1926, when she married her present husband, Ernest Simpson (Harvard '19), Mrs. Simpson has resided sumptuously in London, lately at No. 5 Bryanston Court, Bryanston Square. Though she was in the U. S. for swank turf events such as the Pimlico in 1934, her Baltimore relatives sniff: "We are completely out of touch." Her late uncle, Solomon Davies Warfield, was for years president of Seaboard Air Line Railway...
This is Ketti Gallian's first feature cinema. Producer Winfield Sheehan signed her in London, where, playing in The Ace, she had been enough of a success to start two fashion fads: red hair ribbons and black silk stockings. Previously she had been a chanteuse in French cafés, had made French shorts. While in The Ace, she used to fly to Paris every week-end to see the races at Longchamps. Her first Hollywood contract contained a clause making it compulsory for her to speak perfect English in 100 days. Before the time expired, studio officials made...
...another $19,000,000 for a string of Gaumont theatres in Britain without ever looking at them. But he owed all this money in short-term notes. When the market crash caught him amidships, his creditors hemmed him in, charged him with mismanagement. Even his able right-hand man, Winfield ("Winnie") Sheehan, turned against him. When the smoke of battle cleared, William Fox had been beaten and ousted by a group headed by Utilitarian Harley Lyman Clarke of General Theatres Equipment Corp., Harold Leonard Halsey of Halsey, Stuart & Co., and John Edward Otterson of Electrical Research Products, Inc., subsidiary...
...good friend. Baltimore-born, Mrs. Simpson was named for her father, Wallis Warfield whose brother Solomon Davies was long president of Seaboard Air Line. Her mother, the late Alice Montague Warfield was famed for her beauty and charm. In 1916 Daughter Wallis married Lieut, (now Commander) E. Winfield Spencer Jr., U.S.N., divorced him nine years later. She went abroad with her mother, renewed friendship with Ernest A. Simpson, an Englishman who graduated from Harvard in 1919. They were married in 1926 in London, where Mrs. Simpson has resided ever since. Last spring Mrs. Simpson visited the U. S.. attended...
Engaged. Anton Lang Jr., faculty member of Georgetown University, son of the onetime Christus of the Oberammergau Passion Plays; and Clara Mayr, this year's Oberammergau "Magdalene." Married. Helena Woolworth McCann, 21, granddaughter of the late 5?-&-10? Store Founder Frank Winfield Woolworth; and Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, 27, poloist; in Oyster Bay, Long Island...