Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge (43 page)

dancing,
132

in Barrie’s
Rosy Rapture
,
139
–40

death,
173

jewels passed to Jenny Dolly,
231
,
235

de Veulle, Reggie,
159

Devonshire House, London,
222

Devonshire, Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of,
165

Dewar, Sir Thomas,
23
,
118

de Wolfe, Elsie,
240

Diaghilev, Serge,
104

Dick, Sir William Reid,
248

Dickens & Jones (London store),
5
,
208

Dietrich, Marlene,
132

Dillon, Joseph Emile,
149
,
153

Dix, Mr (Selfridge’s jewellery buyer),
104
,
245

Dmitri Pavlovich, Grand Duke of Russia,
203
–4

Dolin, Anton,
212

Dolly, Jenny (Jansei Deutsch): gambling,
9
,
214
–15,
224

marriage to Harry Fox,
132
,
193

HGS’s affair with,
193
,
195
,
215
,
223
,
231
–2

jewels,
214
,
231
,
235

relations with Wittouck,
215

HGS’s supposed wish to marry,
223

opens lingerie shop in Paris,
231
–2

at HGS’s 1931 election night party,
234

car crash and disfigurement,
235

suicide,
258

Dolly, Rosie (Rosie Deutsch),
193
,
215
,
223

Dolly Sisters,
175
,
193
–4,
203
–7,
209
,
212
,
223
–4

Domergue, Jean-Gabriel,
231

Dominions exhibition, Selfridge’s (1914),
129

Dongen, Kees van,
194

Donoghue, Steve,
191

Doran, Charles H.,
76

Dorchester House, London,
222

Douglas, Miss (school head),
97

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan,
118

Drapers’ Chamber of Commerce,
198

Draper’s Record
(magazine),
237

Drapery and General Investment Trust,
208
–9

Dreiser, Theodore,
73

dress: and women’s fashion,
3
–4,
21
–2,
23
–4,
55
,
57
–8,
102
–3

colours,
103

consumer expenditure on,
125

post-war simplification,
162

modernising changes in 1930s,
227

fashion reported in newspapers,
241
see also
underwear

dressmaking: workshops and manufacturing,
100
–101

Drew, Julius,
79

Drian, Etienne,
132

drink (alcoholic),
160
–61

drugs: in post-war London,
159
–60

Drummond, Mrs Cyril,
101

Dublin: HGS buys business in,
155
–6

Dudley Ward, Freda,
188
,
191
,
224

Duff Gordon, Sir Cosmo,
120

Duff Gordon, Lady (Lucile),
101
,
103
,
112
,
120

Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, 3rd Marquis of,
230

du Maurier, Sir Gerald,
188

du Maurier, Guy,
140

Duncan, Isadora,
57
,
103
,
177
–8,
217

Dunstan, Eric,
156
–7,
167
,
176
,
177
–8,
180
,
196

Duveen, Joseph (
later
Baron),
150
,
165

Dvorak, Anton: New World Symphony,
54

E

Eckersley, Captain P. P.,
179

Economist
(magazine),
249

Edward VII, King: and Alice Keppel,
102
,
119

death,
109

Edward, Prince of Wales (
later
King Edward VIII,
then
Duke of Windsor): dancing,
191
,
225

and Freda Dudley Ward,
191
,
224

relations with Thelma Furness,
224
–5

at Fort Belvedere,
225

and Wallis Simpson,
225
,
243
,
245
,
247

launches ‘Buy British’ campaign,
234

Coronation planned,
245

abdication,
247

Eliot, George,
61

Elizabeth, Queen of George VI (
née
Bowes-Lyon;
then
Duchess of York),
177

Elsie, Lily,
101

Elt, Nellie,
254

England: HGS first visits (1888),
40

‘English Decorative Art’ exhibition, Lansdowne House (1929),
221
–2

Epstein, Sir Jacob,
118
,
202

Erte (fashion artist),
164

Eugénie, Empress of France,
3
,
24

Eulalia, Infanta of Spain,
51
–2

Evans, D. H. (London store),
93
,
208

Evans, Silas,
239

Evening News
,
94
,
129
,
136

Evening Standard
,
154

Everleigh Club, Chicago,
68
–9

Everleigh, Minna and Ada,
68
–9

Expressions
(magazine),
198

F

Fair, Charles,
56

Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr,
195
,
240

Falchetto, Benoit,
217

Farwell (Chicago businessman),
20

Farwell, Cooley & Wadsworth (Chicago wholesalers),
19

fashion
see
dress

Fenwick, Frederick,
257

Fenwick, Trevor,
233
,
257

Ferris, George: designs Giant Wheel for 1893 World Fair,
53

Field, Albertine (Marshall II’s wife),
68

Field, Delia (
née
Caton; Marshall’s second wife),
68

Field, Ethel (Marshall’s daughter),
27

Field, Joseph,
18
,
26

Field, Leiter & Co. (Chicago store): established,
17
–18

sewing girls,
25

move to new premises after fire,
28
–9

linesmen,
30

Field, Leonard,
15
,
17

Field, Marshall: interviews HGS,
17

manner,
17
,
31

background and career,
18
–20

first marriage and children,
20
,
27

and Chicago fire (1871),
21

leases building in Chicago,
22

employs women in lingerie department,
26

buys Chicago building,
29

and John Shedd,
30

buys out Leiter,
31

pricing policy,
33

mistrust of immigrants,
37

attitude to unions and strikers,
38

daily routines,
39

investment strategy and portfolio,
39
,
56

opposes expansion outside Chicago,
40
,
62

expansion programme for 1893 World Fair,
50

isolation,
59
–60

on Potter Palmer’s bequest to wife,
59

differences with HGS over management style,
62
–3

HGS hangs portrait,
64
,
156

HGS leaves,
64

marriage to Delia Caton,
68

death and will,
69
–70

Field, Marshall II: birth,
20

childhood,
27

lives in England,
62

returns to USA,
68

death,
68

Field, Nannie (
née
Scott; Marshall’s first wife),
20
,
27

Financial World
,
125

First World War (1914–18): outbreak,
125
,
128
,
134

effect on consumer goods,
138

food prices,
144

aviation,
148

ends,
153

Fish, Josephine (
later
di Bosdari),
211

FitzGerald, Desmond,
127

Fleming, J. M.,
32
,
38

floorwalkers: GS bans,
6

in London stores,
100

Foale, Marion,
270

Fokker, Tony,
148

Footscray, Kent,
77

Ford, Henry,
110

Forster, E. M.,
248

Fort Belvedere, Great Windsor Park,
225
,
243

43 Club,
191
–2

Fox, Harry,
132
,
193

France: gambling casinos,
175
,
202
–6,
223

Franco-Prussian War (1870–71),
24
–5

Franklin, Benjamin,
166

Fraser, Grace Lovat,
63
,
96

Fraser, Mr & Mrs (HGS’s butler and housekeeper),
72
,
119

Freemasons: HGS joins,
89

Frohman, Charles,
141

Fuller, Loie,
56

Funk, Peter,
60

Furness, Marmaduke, 1st Viscount,
224

Furness, Thelma, Viscountess,
214
,
224
–5

G

Gaiety Theatre, London,
112

Galitzine, Prince and Princess,
234

Gallati, Mario,
232

Gallipoli campaign (1916),
143

gambling: HGS’s,
9
,
16
,
169
,
173
,
175
–6,
184
,
203
,
214
,
223
,
250

Jenny Dolly’s addiction to,
9
,
214
–15,
224

in England and France,
175
,
203
–6,
223

Beaton’s drawings of,
202
,
204

Garden, Oscar,
230

Gardener, Arthur,
147

Garland, Madge,
201
–2,
241

Garros, Roland,
148

Gaston, Lucy Page,
69

Gathergood, Captain,
155

General Elections, British: (1923),
181

(1924),
188

(1929),
226

(1931),
234

(1935),
240

General Strike (Britain, 1926),
210
–11

Geneva, Lake, Wisconsin: HGS’s house at (Harrose Hall),
45
,
61
,
66
,
183

George V, King: Coronation (1911),
116
–17

opens 1924 British Empire Exhibition,
185

on Prince of Wales’s dancing,
191

on striking miners,
210

Silver Jubilee (1935),
237

death,
243

George VI, King (
earlier
Duke of York): marriage,
177

Coronation,
248

Georges, Yvonne,
195

Gerard, Teddy,
147

Germany: in First World War,
134

HGS visits in war,
138
–9

persecution of Jews,
252

Gibson, Charles Dana,
55
–6

Gigier, René,
184

Gilbert, Ransom & Knapp (US furniture factory),
16

Gillett & Johnston (bronze foundry),
217

Gimbel, Bernard,
212

Gloria (Selfridge’s mannequin),
231
,
240
,
259

Glyn, Elinor,
101
,
112
–13,
120
,
122
,
208

Goddard, Police Sergeant George,
192

Godey’s Ladies Book
,
12

Goldsman, Edward,
80
–81,
87
,
157
,
196

Goldsmith’s Hall, London: design exhibition (1915),
139

Goodman, Benny,
243

Gordon Selfridge Trust,
207
,
213
,
249

Gorringe’s (London store),
117

Gossard (company),
242

Grahame-White, Claude,
129

Grant, Frederick,
27

Granville-Barker, Harley:
The Madras House
,
121

Graves, Charles,
194

Great Depression,
228
,
232
,
235

Greek Syndicate,
235
–6

Greffuhle, Comtesse,
24

Grey, Sir Edward (
later
Viscount),
141

Grosvenor House, London,
222

H

Hagen, Walter,
202

hairstyles (women’s),
103
,
163

Hamilton, Gavin,
166

Harmsworth, Esmond,
229

Harper’s Bazaar
(magazine),
163
–4

Harper’s
(magazine),
7
,
19

Harrison, Carter H.,
47
,
54

Harrod, Henry,
93

Harrods (London store): 75th Jubilee celebrations,
93
–4

clientele,
99

cosmetics

department,
102

Queen Mary patronizes,
117