Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge (44 page)

profits,
208

advertising,
211

Harrose Hall
see
Geneva, Lake, Wisconsin

Harry G. Selfridge & Co., Chicago,
65

Hartnell, Sir Norman,
174

Harvard Business School,
217
,
237

Hatry, Clarence,
191
,
209
,
227

hats (women’s),
103
,
132
,
163

Haussman, Georges Eugène, Baron,
20

Haxton, Gerald,
171

Hayden, Sophia,
48

Headfort, Rose, Marchioness of,
82
,
181

Hearst, William Randolph,
149
–50,
173
,
180

Heath, Mary, Lady,
229

Hello Rag-time!
(musical revue),
123

Hello Tango
(musical show),
123

Hendon Flying Club,
129

Hengistbury Head, Dorset,
154
–5,
169
,
220
,
232
,
236

Hensey, A. J.,
199
,
245

Henson, Leslie,
181

Hepburn, Audrey,
132

Higginbotham, Harlow,
47

Highcliffe Castle, Christchurch,
143
,
144
–6,
167
,
169
,
181
–2

Hitler, Adolf,
252

Holden, Sir Edward,
110
–11,
117
,
156

Hollingworth, John,
112

Holmes, H. Andrew: appointed to Selfridge’s Board,
238
,
242

opposes Gordon Jr’s extravagance,
245

and decorations for 1937 Coronation,
248

visits Marshall Field’s in Chicago,
253

forces HGS’s retirement,
254
–5

reduces Gordon Jr’s position at Selfridge’s,
256

demands HGS vacate office and remove possessions,
257
–8

Home Delicacies Association, The, Chicago,
41

Hope, Lord Francis Pelham Clinton,
149

Hopwood, Avery,
191
–2

Hornby, John,
139

Houston, (Dame) Fanny Lucy, Lady,
240

Hoyningen-Huene, George,
164

Hudnutt, Richard,
111

Hughes, Edward,
75

Hunt, Richard Morris,
27
,
47

Huntington, Henry E. and Arabella,
165

Hyde, Frederick,
167

Hylton, Jack (band leader),
234

I

Imber, Horace,
136

Imeretinsky, Prince George and Princess Stella (
née
Wright),
183

Ina (Victoria Eugenia), Queen of Spain,
102

Inman, Melbourne,
187

Isabella II, Queen of Spain,
51

‘It Girls, The’,
208

J

Jackson, Michigan,
13
–16

Jacob, Max,
161

Jaeger, Dr,
55

Jerome, Jennie (Lady Randolph Churchill),
96
–7,
142

Jews: HGS aids during Nazi persecution,
252

John, Augustus,
161

Johnson, Amy,
229

Johnson, Samuel,
198

Jones Brothers of Holloway (store),
208
,
216
,
246

Jones, William,
216

Joplin, Scott,
51

Joseph, Delissa,
74

Journal des Dames et des Modes
,
164

Joynson Hix, Sir William (
later
1st Viscount Brentford; ‘Jix’),
188
–90,
200
,
211
,
226

Judson, Harry Pratt,
128
,
137
–8

K

Kellog, Dr,
55

Keppel, Alice,
102
,
119

Kern, Jerome,
140

Key, The
(house magazine),
187

Keysign House,
258

Khan, Alphonse,
175

Kidd, Janet Aitken,
194

Kipling, Rudyard,
129

Kit Cat Club,
192
–4

Knickerbocker Trust Company: collapses,
79

Koehn, Nancy,
61
,
68

Kolchak, Sofia,
153

Kreuger & Toll (engineering company),
80

Kreuger, Ivar,
80
,
191
,
236

L

Lane, John (publisher),
150

Langtry, Lillie,
29
–30,
99
,
101

Lansdowne, Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquis of,
165
,
222

Lansdowne House, London: HGS rents and occupies,
72
,
165
–6

charity balls and entertaining,
178
,
188
,
199

exhibitions,
221
–2

sold,
222

Laroche, Baroness Raymonde de,
104

Lartigue, Jacques-Henri,
132

Lau Ping You,
159

Lava, Thelma de,
189

Lavery, Hazel, Lady (
née
Martyn),
181

Law, Andrew Bonar,
176
,
181

Lawrie, John,
177
,
184
,
215
–16

Laye, Evelyn,
202

Leiter, Joe,
57

Leiter, Levi Z.,
19
–22,
29
,
31
,
57
,
70

Lempicka, Tamara de,
164

Lenglen, Suzanne,
170
,
195
,
200
–201,
209
,
237

death,
250

Leong, Sze Tsung,
261

Leverhulme, William Hesketh Lever, Baron (
later
Viscount),
150

le Voi, Leslie,
228

Lewis, Sir George,
128

Lewis, John: funeral,
218

Lewis, Rosa,
146
,
178
,
234

Lewis, Wyndham,
124

Lewis’s of Liverpool: acquires Selfridge’s,
220

Liberty’s (London store),
123
,
208

Lilliput
(magazine),
233

Lincoln, Abraham,
11

Lincoln, Mary,
7
,
12

Lipton, Sir Thomas,
78
,
118
,
170
,
194
,
233

Lloyd, Marie,
140

Lloyd, Thomas & Co.,
126
,
176

Lloyd George, David: as wartime Prime Minister,
143

on dangers of drink,
160

in 1929 election,
226

Lloyd George, (Dame) Margaret (
née
Owen),
150

Lodge, Sir Oliver,
118
–19

London: HGS moves to,
71
–3

HGS researches inhabitants,
78
–9

department stores,
79

popular press,
84

public transport,
108

nightclubs,
160
,
191
–2,
211

wartime blitz,
258
–9

see also
Selfridge’s (store)

London Council for the Promotion of Public Morality,
160

London Journal of Fashion
,
111

London Society,
153

Londonderry, Edith Helen, Marchioness of,
162
,
240

Loomis, Peter,
15

Lord & Taylor (New York store),
32

Loti, Maude,
207

Louis II, Prince of Monaco,
184

Louis XIV, King of France,
11

Low, Archibald,
134

Low, (Sir) David,
227

Lucile
see
Duff Gordon, Lady

Lusitania
(ship),
141

M

McAfee, Alan,
91

McAllister, Ward,
47
–8

McCormick, Cyrus,
12
,
27
,
38

MacDonald, James Ramsay,
181
–2,
226
–7,
233
–4,
240

MacGregor, Eisdale,
254

McKenna, Sir Reginald,
190

McKim, Charles,
37

Macy’s (New York store),
33

magazines (women’s),
163
–4

Mahzar, Fahreda,
53

Maidstone, Margaretta, Viscountess (
née
Drexel),
133

make-up
see
cosmetics

Makers of Our Clothes
(Cadbury report),
100

Manchester, William Angus Drogo Montagu, 9th Duke of,
165

Manners, Angela,
15

Maples (London store),
93

Marbury, Bessie,
133

Marie, Queen of Romania,
101

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France,
24

Marks & Spencer (stores),
249
–50

Marshall & Snelgrove (London store),
8
,
110

Marshall Field & Co., Chicago: HGS works for,
2
,
5
,
7
,
30
–32

established,
31

advertising,
32
,
35
,
58

fair price policy,
33

lighting,
33
–4

developed by Burnham,
34
–5

HGS introduces improvements,
34
–5

bargain basement,
36
–7

staff conditions,
37
–8

HGS appointed retail general manager,
39
,
42

extended,
40

instore restaurant,
41

service departments,
41

HS made junior partner,
42

expansion for Chicago World Fair (1893),
49
–50

minimises toiletries and cosmetics,
49

ready-to-wear women’s clothes,
55

rebuilt (1902–8),
58
–9

turnover,
58

incorporated as private limited company,
60

HGS’s management role in,
61
–3

ordering and sourcing of goods,
62

HGS leaves,
64
,
66

Andrew Holmes visits,
253

Mary, Queen of George V: coronation,
116
–17

attends ‘English Decorative Art’ exhibition,
222

Silver Jubilee (1935),
237

Mascotte (dressmaker),
101

Matthews, Jessie,
192

Maugham, Syrie (
earlier
Wellcome): affair with HGS,
89
,
113
–15,
127
–8,
174
,
181

Eric Dunstan works for,
196

attends Selfridge’s election-night party,
240

decorating business,
244

Maugham, W. Somerset: and Syrie,
127
–8

on Monaco,
184

The Land of Promise
,
127

Of Human Bondage
,
99

Our Betters
,
141
–2,
180
–81

Maxwell, Elsa,
193
,
212

Mayer, David,
63
–4

Mead, Phil,
142

Melba, Dame Nellie,
179

Mepham, Hilda: as HGS’s personal secretary,
156
,
181
,
245
,
254
–5,
257
–8

sees HGS in old age,
260

Mewes, Charles,
74

Meyer, Baron de (photographer),
164

Meyrick, Sir George,
146
,
154

Meyrick, Kate (‘Ma’),
158
–9,
179
,
191
–2,
228

Michael, Grand Duchess of Russia,
176

Michael, Grand Duke of Russia,
182

Midland Bank,
110
–11,
125
,
167

Miller, Albert,
153
,
217
,
219
,
233
,
238
,
248

Mistinguett (Jeanne Marie Bourgeois),
212

Molyneux, Captain Edward,
194

Monaco: Grimaldi dynasty,
184

Mond, Sir Alfred,
150

Money, Sir Leo,
189

Monte Carlo,
175
,
206

Mordkin, Michel,
103

Morgan, Herbert,
135

Morgan, John Pierpont,
25
,
68

Morris, William: fabrics,
6

HGS opens department at Marshal Field,
40

Mosley, Lady Cynthia,
234

Mosley, Sir Oswald,
234

motor cars,
58
,
65
,
199

Mountbatten, Lady Louis (Edwina;
later
Countess),
188
,
210
,
244

Murray, S. B.,
167

music (popular),
107
–8

music hall,
140

Musker, Sir John,
79
,
94
,
121
,
125

Mussolini, Benito,
240
,
252

Mutual Communications Society, The,
168

N

Nahlin
(steam yacht),
243

Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor of the French,
71

Nast, Condé,
144
,
194

National Government (Britain),
234

National Union of Shop Assistants,
232

Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland,
15
,
59