Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge (42 page)

Atkinson, Robert,
76

Au Bon Marché (Paris store),
6
,
40

Aubrey, Thomas,
90
–91,
93

Auden, W. H.,
107

Austin Friar Trust,
209

automobiles
see
motor cars

aviation
see
aeronautics

Ayer, Harriet Hubbard,
49

B

Bache, Jules,
249

Bader, Théophile,
175

Bailey, Mary, Lady,
229

Baird, John Logie,
134
,
195
–6

Bakst, Leon,
104

Baldwin, Stanley (
later
1st Earl),
226
,
240

Ballet Russe,
104

Bankhead, Tallulah,
188
,
192
,
210

Barbier, George,
164

Barker, John (London store),
93
,
117
,
208

Barnard (of Thomas Wallis),
177

Barnes, John (London store),
208

Barnes (of Selfridge’s photographic department),
202

Barney’s (New York store),
271

Barnum, Phineas T.:
Struggles and Triumphs
,
14

Barrie, (Sir) James Matthew,
139
–41

Baudoin, Edouard,
194

Baum, L. Frank,
55

Bayes, Gilbert,
233

Beasley, ‘Pop’ (bridge player),
235

Beaton, Cecil,
132
,
194
,
202
,
204
,
214

Beatty, Admiral David, 1st Earl,
62
,
70

Beatty, Ethel, Countess (
née
Field;
then
Tree),
62
,
70
,
102

Beaux, Ernest,
204

Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron,
94
,
128
,
143
,
169
,
194
,
201
,
240

Bedford, Mary, Duchess of,
229
–30

Beerbohm (Sir) Max,
166

Bell, Edward Price,
94
,
98
,
150
,
172

Beman, Solon S.,
43

Bennett, Arnold: attends Barrie’s
Rosy
Rapture
,
140

edits
Woman Magazine
,
164

on Gordon Selfridge Jr,
172

frequents nightclubs,
191

meets HGS in store,
194

nephew joins Selfridge’s,
210

attends 1929 election night party,
226
–7

death,
233

Hugo: A Fantasia on Modern Themes
,
233

Benois, Alexander,
104

Bentall, L. H.,
257

Beresford, Admiral Lord Charles,
147

Berlin, Irving,
133

Bernhardt, Sarah,
38

Bertin, Rose,
24

Best, Percy,
81
,
117
,
137
,
168
,
196

bicycles,
57
–8

Big Fella
(film),
247

Big Rapids, Michigan,
16

Bilibine, Ivan,
103

Birss, Fred,
222

Bismarck, Prince and Princess von,
234

Blackwood, William,
242

Blaney, Norah,
196

Blériot, Louis,
104
–5,
147

Blumenfeld, Ralph: friendship with HGS,
85
,
118
,
169
,
201

edits
Daily Express
,
89
,
201

introduces HGS to Elinor Glyn,
112

and Duff Gordons’ escape from
Titanic
,
120

Beaverbrook lunches with,
128

invites Burbidge to review HGS’s
Romance of Commerce
,
151

HGS gives cigars to,
166

attends Lois’s funeral,
184

helps HGS gain residential status,
190

suffers stroke,
246

and HGS’s British naturalization,
249

at luncheon in HGS’s honour,
257

Bolotoff, Marie de
see
Wiasemsky, Princess Marie de

Bolotoff, Serge de
see
Wiasemsky, Serge de

Bon Ton Directory
,
38

Borwick, Miss (Selfridge’s knitwear buyer),
127

Bosdari, Count Anthony di,
210
–11

Boucicaut, Aristide,
6
–7

Boulestin, Marcel,
161

Bourjois (cosmetician),
111

Bournique, Eugene A.,
48

Brady, James Buchanan (‘Diamond Jim’),
206

Brandt, Edgar,
174

Brighton Technical College,
252

Britain: declares war on Germany (1914),
134

and Second World War,
252
–4

British Empire Exhibition, Wembley (1924),
185
–6

British Weekly
,
84

Brittain, Sir Harry,
157
,
173

Brock, Sir Thomas,
126

Brooke, Sir Charles Vyner
see
Sarawak, Rajah of

Brooke, Rupert,
123

Brooke, Sylvia, Lady
see
Sarawak, Ranee of

Brown Thomas (Dublin drapers),
155

Buchanan, Jack,
181

Buckingham, Frank,
43

Buckley, Homer,
36

Buffalo Bill Cody: Wild West Show,
53

Bumby, Harold, Mayor of Ripon, Wisconsin,
239

Burbidge, Sir Woodman,
151
,
177
,
257

Burnett, Frances Hodgson:
Little Lord
Fauntleroy
,
40

Burnett, Sir John,
153
–4,
246

Burnham, Daniel,
34
,
47
,
50
,
58
,
76

Burridge, Fred,
139

Burton, Sir Montague,
257

Bute, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of,
145

Butt, Alfred,
131

Butt, Dame Clara,
108

Bylander, Sven,
80

C

Cadbury family,
100

Caledon, Erik James Desmond Alexander, 5th Earl of,
221

‘Callisthenes’ (publicity column),
121
–3,
128
,
135
,
144
,
180
,
230
,
249
,
252
,
254

Cambon, Pierre,
72

Campbell, Nannie (
née
Leiter),
83

Capone, Al,
183

Capra, Frank,
251

Carleton, Billie,
159

Carlton House Terrace (No.
9
): HGS leases,
222
,
244

Carnegie, Andrew,
8
,
81

Carpenter, Tom,
187

Carpentier, Georges,
191

Carroll, Madeleine,
240

Carson, Pirie & Scott (company),
29
,
66

Carson, Sam,
29
,
66

Cartland, (Dame) Barbara,
188

Cassel, Sir Ernest,
78
,
118
,
244

Castle, Vernon and Irene,
132
–3

Castlerosse, Valentine Browne, Viscount,
224

Caton, Mr & Mrs Arthur,
68

Cave of the Golden Calf (London nightclub),
124

Cavendish, Charlie,
234

Chamberlain, Neville,
253
–4

Chandler, Frank,
43

Chanel, Coco (Gabrielle),
147
,
161
,
165
,
203
–4,
241

Chang, Brilliant,
159

Chaplin, Charlie,
181
,
195

Chapman, Cissie,
156

charleston (dance),
190

Charlotte Louise, Princess of Monaco,
184

Charterhouse Investment Trust,
208

Cheep
(musical show),
147

Cheriton, Ann,
99

Chesterton, G. K.,
126

Chicago: HGS works in,
2
,
5

rise to prosperity,
12

conditions,
18
–21,
66

fire (1871),
21

Palmer House,
21

rebuilt,
26
–7

ships foodstuffs,
26

social life,
27
–8

riots and violence,
38

sexual services,
42
–3,
68
–9

World Fair (World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893),
46
–54

women’s makeup,
49

cargo shipped through port,
57

HGS’s home in,
61

motor cars,
65

in Prohibition era,
183

see also
Marshall Field & Co.

Chicago Club,
39
,
43

Chicago Tribune
,
28

Chitham, Frank,
81
,
187

Christchurch, Hampshire,
167

Churchill, Sir) Winston,
136
,
138
,
143
,
161
,
181
,
196
,
234
,
240

Cipriani, Giovanni,
166

Citizen Kane
(film),
180

Clarke, Gilbert,
99

Clarke, H. J.,
253

Cleaver, Colonel (of Richardson & Cleaver),
177

Clydesdale, Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, Marquis of,
236

Coats, Major Jack,
191
,
235

Cobham, Alan,
202

Cochran, (Sir) Charles B.,
174
,
193
,
234

cocktails,
160
–61

Codrington, Anne,
236

Cohen, Rex,
218

Cole Brothers, Sheffield,
229

Collins, Frank,
174

Collins, Lottie,
140

Collins, Michael,
156

Compton Place, Eastbourne,
250

Compton Verney, Warwickshire,
40

Conaly, James,
85

Confucius,
261

Conqueror
(steam yacht),
215
,
222
,
243

Cooper, Lady Diana (
earlier
Manners),
103
,
133
,
143
,
210

Cooper, Gladys,
176
,
181

Cornuche, Eugène,
175
,
205
–6

Coronations: (1911),
116
–17; (1937),
248

corsets,
25
–6
see also
crinolines

cosmetics,
49
–50,
102
,
111

Cottingham, Walter,
71

cotton: shortage in American Civil War,
11

Courville, Albert de,
158

Coward, Noël,
234
,
240
,
243

Cowdray, Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1st Viscount,
150

Cowper, Alfred,
81
,
221

crinolines,
3
,
23
,
25

Culbertson, Ely,
235

Cunard, Emerald (Maud Alice), Lady,
141
,
222
,
234

Curzon, George Nathaniel, Marquis,
31
,
38
,
57
,
113

Curzon, Grace, Marchioness (
née
Hinds),
176
–7

Curzon, Mary, Lady (
née
Leiter),
31
,
38
,
57
,
70
,
113
,
146

D

Dadadandy (artists),
26

Daily Express
,
190
,
195

Daily Graphic
,
104

Daily Mail
,
84
,
104
–5,
179
,
230

Daily News
,
100

Dalrymple-Hay, Sir Harley,
153
,
199

Dalton’s Club, Leicester Square,
158

dancing: as popular pastime,
107
,
123
,
132
,
190
–91

in Selfridge’s Palm Court,
158

Dangerous Drugs Act (1920),
160

Darzen, Georges,
112

Daughters of the American Revolution,
117

Davies, George Llewelyn,
140

Davis, Arthur,
74

Davis, Mortimer, Jr,
215

Dawson, Geoffrey,
247

Day, Freddie,
245

Deakin, Arthur,
253

Debenham & Freebody (London store),
5
,
100

Deering’s International Harvester Company,
151

Defence of the Realm Act (1914; DORA),
136
–7,
160
,
189

Delsarte, François,
56

Delysia, Alice,
174
,
176

Demorest, Ellen,
21

Dennis, Charlotte,
171

department stores: in Paris,
1
,
6
–7

and shopping methods,
4
–5

staff facilities,
5

in London,
79

clientele,
99
–100

Deslys, Gaby: HGS’s relations with,
127
,
131
–2,
140
,
143
,
147
,
195

as fashion leader,
131
–2