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...Tide Water Associated Oil Co. counted proxies for a corporate simplification plan in the company's office downtown at No. 17 Battery Place, Tide Water's biggest stockholder, a man with a $20,000,000 stake in the proceedings, sat uptown in his swank Sutton Place penthouse unable to do anything about...
...Stars Remain (By Julius & Philip Epstein; Theatre Guild, producer). In Scene II of this bright confection, Clifton Webb, cast as a Sutton Place flaneur, sinks back into a sofa and murmurs to a young woman who wants to take him to a party at Southampton: "I am 32, my dear. My dancing days are over." If imperturbable, emaciated, 45-year-old Mr. Webb's dancing days are indeed over, it will be a bitter blow to those who recall with pleasure his slick gyrations in Sunny, Three's A Crowd, Flying Colors, As Thousands Cheer. In the case...
...well-to-do mining engineer, was born in Globe, Ariz, in the summer of 1908. Her family spent the following winter in California in a house rented from Author Willard Huntington Wright (S. S. Van Dine). At the age of six months, Helen was presented to Tennist May Sutton, an acquaintance of her mother. Just before the War, the Jacobs family moved to San Francisco. When she was 13, Mr. Jacobs gave his daughter an old tennis racquet, taught her how to use it. The day she won a set from him, she entered a public parks tournament. From then...
...Eleonora Sears was chosen by Tennist May Sutton as the most attractive and best dressed woman in the U. S. Just before she sailed for England last month, she was guest of honor at a Boston banquet, hailed as U. S. Sportswoman No. 1. Currently Sportswoman Sears is interested in squash racquets, walking, tennis and riding, though she no longer rides in steeplechases on her favorite horse Barney...
Neighbors in West Virginia knew Susanne Fisher as a plain, everyday child, daughter of self-respecting Methodists, who spent most of her time on her grandfather's farm six miles out of Sutton. As a matter of course she was taught to sew, fry chicken, make hot bread and pies. She was no prodigy. Practicing irked her. But she was so naturally musical, showed such talent for the piano that when time came for her to go off to school she was sent to the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. There she discovered the voice that won her successive scholarships...