Word: marquess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...partygoers. Staging a masquerade in the Waldorf-Astoria grand ballroom for its Pension Fund, the Philharmonic lured in 1,200 masked dancers, twice the number that attended two previous open-faced fund-raising parties. Among the celebrities and socialites who showed up (at $25 a ticket): the white-tied Marquess of Milford Haven and his American fiancee, Mrs. Romaine Simpson; black-tied ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia and Queen Alexandra; Warren Austin, permanent U.S. delegate to the U.N., and Mrs. Austin, wearing a notably fancy mask which partygoers took to be a huge butterfly whipped up by a famous designer...
...records sold and nightclub bands and hurdy-gurdies playing his tunes (Harry Lime Theme, The Café Mozart Waltz), Karas flew back to London for a share of the bravos. At his opening at the Empress Club, Princess Margaret and a party of playmates including Sharman Douglas and the Marquess of Blandford arrived three hours early, got him to play Margaret's favorite (Harry Lime Theme) six times. Next night, with King George in the audience, he was introduced at the annual Royal Film performance to shrieks and applause. Said surprised Anton Karas: "I am so happy...
...Colon de Carvajal, 17th Duke of Veragua, 24, lieutenant in the Spanish navy, who, as ranking male descendant of Christopher Columbus, holds the hereditary title of Admiral of the Indies ; and former Anunciada Gorosabely Ramirez, 23, Madrid socialite: their first child, a son; in Madrid. Name: Cristobal Colon, 17th Marquess of Jamaica. Weight...
...have to ask his cousin George's permission to marry. The Marriage Act makes an exception of the offspring of princesses who marry into foreign families. Milford Haven's royal great-grandmother, the daughter of Victoria, had married Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse. "Naturally," the marquess said last week, "I wrote the King as a matter of courtesy...
Mayfair had kept a weather eye on young Milford Haven ever since Princess Elizabeth's wedding, when he served as best man. An internationally eligible bachelor who in recent years had divided his time between London nightclubs and the sale of radiators in the U.S., the young marquess had amply rewarded the scrutiny by providing Mayfair with its best gossip. Sometime ago one of his showgirl friends shocked London by climbing into the coronation chair at Westminster Abbey for a publicity gag. Several weeks ago the enterprising peer titillated the town again and got his latest business...