Word: winfields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, famed 8-goal poloist; and Helena Woolworth McCann, socialite granddaughter of the late Frank Winfield Woolworth, 5?-&-10? store tycoon...
...dress, urged producers to cast him as Othello. Annoyed by rumors that he was as lazy off the screen as on, he grew over-diligent, insisted on writing his own lines, directing his own scenes. In 1931, Stepin Fetchit ceased to be employed in Hollywood. Last autumn Winfield Sheehan of Fox was smart enough to rehire him. In Carolina he appeared as the stumbling, fumbling "cornfield nigger" dressed up as a butler. He will next appear in Fox Follies...
Birthdays. Barbara Hutton Mdivani, 21; Archduke Otto of Habsburg, 21*, With her new husband, "Prince" Alexis Mdivani, Princess Barbara returned to the U. S. for a birthday party arranged last week by her amiable father, and to receive legally a third of the estate of her late grandfather, Frank Winfield (5? & 10?) Woolworth-about $20,000,000, protected by a marriage contract drawn up by wary Hutton lawyers...
...commission house in Paris and London. His friends and former clients ranged from Cineman Winfield Sheehan and Steelman Charles Michael Schwab to Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe). Since 1931 when the House of Pynchon fell (borne down largely by the collapse of General Theatres Equipment securities), Banker Pynchon has lost his mansion at Greenwich. Conn., his yachts, his millions. Shrunken security values have reduced the settlement which Pynchon creditors expect to run about 25? on the dollar, denying him the chance of saving any stake with which to recoup his fortune. Wall Street, feeling that Mr. Pynchon had failed with...
...size of the groom's settlement set the world wondering at the size of the bride's fortune. When the late Frank Winfield (5? & 10^?) Woolworth died in 1919, he owned approximately one quarter of the stock of this giant company. He left his entire estate to his wife, Jennie. Since the latter, aged 66, suffered from premature senility, the estate was administered by a committee consisting of their two daughters: Helena (Mrs. Charles McCann), and Jessie (Mrs. James Paul Donahue), and Hubert Parson, president of the company (1919-32). When Jennie Woolworth died in 1924 the estate...