Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge (47 page)

on early television,
134

approves of encouraging good design,
139

HGS attempts to buy,
172

on Selfridge’s television department and studio,
252

Tirtoff, Romain de,
164

Titanic
(ship),
119
–20

Todd, Dorothy,
201

Tree, Arthur,
40

Tree, Ethel (
née
Field)
see
Beatty, Ethel, Countess

Tree, Judge Lambert,
39

Tucker, Sophie,
202

Tyrrell, Margaret Ann, Lady,
152

U

underwear (women’s),
26
,
162
,
241
–2

unemployment,
168
,
235

United States of America: retail shops in,
7

recession (1873),
22
,
26

women and fashion,
24
–5

neutrality in First World War,
137
–8

HGS visits in wartime,
151

Independence,
166

Selfridge’s buyers visit,
212

HGS makes public relations tour,
216

HGS visits (1935),
239
–40

HGS visits to raise money,
249

HGS makes final trip to,
256

see also
Chicago

V

Valentino, Rudolph,
192

Vanderbilt, Gloria,
224

Veragua, Duke of,
50
–51

Versailles, Treaty of (1919),
157

Vesey, Sir Yvo Richard,
83

Victoria, Queen: dress,
3

Victory Construction Company,
157

Videau brothers,
6

Vionnet, Madeleine,
227

Vogue
(magazine),
144
,
165
,
201
,
222
,
241

Voronoff, Serge,
161

W

Wadsworth (Chicago businessman),
20

wages,
165

Walcot, William,
237

Wall Street crash (1929),
228

Walpole, Hugh,
140

Walton, Maurice and Florence,
123

Wanamaker, John,
59
,
76

Ward, Fanny,
195

Waring & Gillow (company),
74
,
77

Waring & White (company),
74
,
80

Waring, Samuel,
74
,
76
–8,
88
–9

Warner, Frank,
139

Washington
, SS, 256

Wassiltchikoff, Princess Lydia,
182

Watson, Carrie,
29
,
39
,
43

Waugh, Evelyn,
192

Webb, Clifton,
193

Wellcome, Henry S.,
89
,
113
–14,
128
,
150

Wellcome, Syrie
see
Maugham, Syrie

Wells, H. G.,
86
,
118
,
139

Wembley Stadium,
185

West, Dame Rebecca,
114

Westminster Gazette
,
136

Westminster, Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of (‘Bendor’),
165

Westwood, John,
194

Wheaton-Smith, Craig,
259

Wheaton-Smith, Simon (HGS’s grandson),
61
,
171

Wheaton-Smith, Tatiana (
née
de Wiasiemsky; Rosalie-Serge’s daughter),
171
,
182
–3,
247
,
250
,
259

Whistler, Rex,
188

White, James G.,
74

White, James (‘Jimmy’),
191
,
207
–9,
213
,
215
–16

White, Pearl,
207

Whiteley, William: murdered,
82

Whiteley’s (store), Bayswater, London: HGS admires,
6

refused liquor licence,
8

decline,
82
,
208

HGS buys,
215
–16,
221

HGS claims salary arrears for,
236

dividends,
249

Whiteman, Paul (band leader),
177

Whittaker, Freda,
187

Wiasemsky, Princess Marie de (Marie de Bolotoff),
147
–8,
152
,
171
,
182

Wiasemsky, Rosalie (
née
Selfridge; HGS-Rose’s daughter): birth,
50

upbringing,
96

at finishing school in New York,
119

makes debut in Chicago,
128
–9

joins Red Cross in war,
146

courtship and marriage to Serge,
147
–8,
152
,
171

occupies Wimbledon Park House,
182

at Lansdowne House charity ball,
188

watches Suzanne Lenglen win Wimbledon,
201

visits Russia,
202

denies father’s wish to marry Jenny Dolly,
222

financial difficulties,
236

lives in Brook House with father,
247

moves to Putney with family,
258

Wiasemsky, Serge de (
earlier
de Bolotoff): aviation,
147
–8

courtship and marriage to Rosalie,
147
–8,
152

photographed with HGS,
171

adopts Wiasemsky title,
182
–3

refugee status confirmed,
190

visits Russia with HGS,
202

lives in Brook House,
247

moves to Putney with HGS,
258

Wiasemsky, Prince Vladimir,
182

Wilde, Oscar,
46
,
99
,
125

Salome
,
103

Will o’the Wisp
(boys’ magazine),
15
,
129

Williams, Arthur H.,
109
,
126
,
181
,
234
,
245
–6

Willoughby de Broke, Henry Verney, 18th Baron,
40

Wills, Helen,
209

Wimbledon: Wiasemsky family in,
182

Wimborne, Ivor Guest, 1st Baron,
83

Winchester, Henry William Montagu Paulet, 16th Marquis of,
209

Wingate, Poppy,
187

Winn, Ernest,
237
,
247

Winterbottom, Captain Leslie,
196
,
244

Witte, Serge, Count,
148

Wittouck, Jacques,
215

women: dress,
3
–4,
21
–4,
55
–6,
98
,
102
–3,
162

as shoppers,
4
–5

facilities for,
8

pavilion in Chicago World Fair,
48
–9

make-up,
49

emancipation,
54
–5,
122
,
161

World Congress, Chicago (1893),
55

dancing,
56

employees in Selfridge’s,
82
,
122
,
134
,
142

sports-wear,
98

suffrage,
122
–3

war work,
134
–5

magazines,
163
–4

banned from gambling in Paris,
175

trouser-wearing,
176

Wong, Anna May,
176

Woolton, Frederick James Marquis, 1st Earl of,
221

Woolworth, Frank,
95
,
138

Wordsworth, Mrs (dancing teacher),
97

World Fair (Chicago, 1893)
see
Chicago

World’s Congress of Representative Women,
55

Worth, Charles Frederick,
24
–5,
28

Worth, Jean-Philippe,
25

Wortley, Major-General Edward Stuart,
146
,
182

Wragg (Selfridge’s radio buyer),
180

Wrench, Evelyn,
84
,
173

Wright, Frank Lloyd,
63

Wright, Wilbur and Orville,
104

Y

Yale, Madame (cosmeticist),
49

Yarborough, Victoria Alexandrina, Countess of,
83

Yerkes, Charles Tyson,
72
–3

You Can’t Take It with You
(film),
251

Youngman, Arthur,
81
,
253

Yoxall, Harry,
201
–2

Z

Ziegfeld, Florenz,
44

Ziegfeld, Florenz, Jr,
44
,
53
,
193

Ziegfeld’s Follies (New York),
44

Zographos, Nicolas,
206
,
235
,
250

Zola, Emile,
1

Au Bonheur des Dames
,
7

Zukor, Adolph,
131

1. Harry Gordon Selfridge married Rosalie Amelia Buckingham on 11 November 1890 in an extravagantly orchestrated ceremony held in Chicago. They spent their honeymoon in Newport, Rhode Island.

2. Lois Selfridge, Harry’s mother, in 1906 at the age of 71. Friends remarked that ‘she seemed the embodiment of a classic sweet old lady, but she was unobtrusively formidable’.

3. Harry Gordon Selfridge, seen here
c.
1910, was always immaculately groomed and tailored. His taste was for formal clothes and he was rarely seen in anything remotely casual.

4. Oxford Street at the corner of Duke Street,
c.
1907, before the construction of Selfridge’s.