Read Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge Online
Authors: Lindy Woodhead
Atkinson, Robert,
76
Au Bon Marché (Paris store),
6
,
40
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
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
Blumenfeld, Ralph: friendship with HGS,
85
,
118
,
169
,
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
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
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
Carpenter, Tom,
187
Carpentier, Georges,
191
Carroll, Madeleine,
240
Carson, Pirie & Scott (company),
29
,
66
Cartland, (Dame) Barbara,
188
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
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
rise to prosperity,
12
fire (1871),
21
Palmer House,
21
rebuilt,
26
–7
ships foodstuffs,
26
social life,
27
–8
riots and violence,
38
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 Tribune
,
28
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
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
Coronations: (1911),
116
–17; (1937),
248
corsets,
25
–6
see also
crinolines
Cottingham, Walter,
71
cotton: shortage in American Civil War,
11
Courville, Albert de,
158
Cowdray, Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1st Viscount,
150
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 Graphic
,
104
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
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