| 词条 | Alice DeLamar |
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Early lifeDeLamar was born April 23, 1895, in New York City to Joseph Raphael De Lamar and Nellie Sands.[2][5] She was their only child. The DeLamars had a mansion in New York City and an estate on Glen Cove on Long Island called Pennbrook[8] or Pembroke.[9] After she was born the family moved to Paris, where she lived until she and her father moved back to New York City in 1900. Late in the 1900s, DeLamar was put into the Spence School by her godfather, William Nelson Cromwell.[6] Her parents divorced in 1910,[7] and her father gained custody of her.[8] She had a half-sister, Consuelo Hatmaker, from her mother and her second husband, James Hatmaker.[9] After she graduated from the Spence School, DeLamar and Evangeline Johnson, one of her schoolmates, volunteered for the Red Cross Motor Corps in Europe during World War I.[6] Joseph Raphael De Lamar, Alice DeLamar's father, died December 1, 1918, making her the inheritor of $10 million ({{inflation|US|10000000|1918|fmt=eq}})[6][16] and was subsequently called the richest bachelor girl in the United States.[9] Preferring a simpler life, she eschewed the family mansion for a Park Avenue apartment following her father's death.[7] CareerPhilanthropyDeLamar was a patron of the arts and supported the careers of architects, artists, choreographers and writers, but she often preferred to remain anonymous when making financial donations.[19] She commissioned Ida Tarbell to write a book about architect Addison Mizner, that was illustrated by photographs of Frank Geisler, when Mizner was experiencing financial difficulties. She oversaw the work, including selecting images for the book.[19] She supported environmental and social organizations. In 1969, she donated the land to the Aspetuck Land Trust for the 21-acre Stonebridge Waterfowl Preserve in Weston, Connecticut.[10] BusinessBeginning in 1936, she operated a restaurant in Weston, the Cobbs Mill Inn,[10] where members of the arts dined.[19] She purchased and renovated properties along Newtown Turnpike near her home in Connecticut that she then leased out to artists that she encouraged.[9][11] In Palm Beach, Florida, she opened the Worth Avenue Gallery in 1942. It was an art gallery that promoted the works of up-and-coming artists.[12] Personal lifeDeLamar lived at the estate named Stonebrook, located in Weston, that she had built in the 1930s.[10][11] Her visitors included Dave Brubeck, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Salvador Dalí, Eva Le Gallienne, and George Balanchine.[11] On this estate, she had a pool built that includes a tunnel leading from the basement. It is rumored that this was so she could swim in the nude without fear of being seen or the need to walk outside.{{citation needed|date=September 2018}} She also had a house in Palm Beach, Florida along the ocean; a townhouse in Paris that was previously owned by Gerald Murphy; and an apartment at 530 Park Avenue in New York.[13] For six decades, DeLamar was Eva Le Gallienne's lover and financial supporter.[14] She backed plays[1] and she is believed to have provided funding for the Civic Repertory Theatre established by Le Gallienne in New York City.[15] While seeking treatment for liver cancer, DeLamar hit her head when she fell in the South Norwalk hospital, which led to her death. Her remains were cremated and buried in West Palm Beach. A large portion of her estate went to Harvard, Columbia, and Johns Hopkins Universities, in accordance with her father's will.[16][13] La Gallienne received $1 million[14] or a quarter of her estate,[17] including the land and house that DeLamar purchased for her.[13] References1. ^1 2 {{cite book|author1=Kim Marra|author2=Robert A. Schanke|title=Staging Desire: Queer Readings of American Theater History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iJUbW7B6bnAC&pg=PA91|year=2002|publisher=University of Michigan Press|isbn=0-472-06749-4|page=91}} 2. ^1 {{cite book|author=Wayne Craven|title=Gilded Mansions: Grand Architecture and High Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1BrBHQfpEcAC&pg=PA354|year=2009|publisher=W.W. Norton & Company|isbn=978-0-393-06754-5|page=354}} 3. ^{{cite book|author=David Leddick|title=Intimate Companions: A Triography of George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, Lincoln Kirstein, and Their Circle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8LCpCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT277|date=24 November 2015|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-1-250-10478-6|page=277}} 4. ^{{cite book|author=James D. Snyder|title=A Visitor’s Guide to Jonathan Dickinson State Park|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fh9dDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT32|date=30 December 2013|publisher=BookBaby|isbn=978-1-61850-029-8|page=32}} 5. ^{{cite book|author=Robert A Schanke|title=Angels in the American Theater: Patrons, Patronage, and Philanthropy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4jexrp2saSEC&pg=PA56|date=7 March 2007|publisher=SIU Press|isbn=978-0-8093-8743-4|page=56}} 6. ^1 2 {{cite book|author=Addison Mizner|title=Florida Architecture of Addison Mizner|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OaC8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PT13|date=17 January 2013|publisher=Courier Corporation|isbn=978-0-486-14202-9|pages=12–13}} 7. ^1 2 {{cite book|author1=Alfred Pommer|author2=Joyce Pommer|title=Exploring Manhattan's Murray Hill|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vNR2CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT77|date=5 November 2013|publisher=Arcadia Publishing Incorporated|isbn=978-1-62584-515-3|page=PT77}} 8. ^1 {{cite news|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1921-12-11/ed-1/seq-53/|title=The $10,000,000 Heiress Who Runs Herself|newspaper=The Washington Times|date=December 11, 1921|page=3|via=Chronically America, Library of Congress}} 9. ^1 2 {{cite news|url= https://www.newspapers.com/image/171117070/|title=Why the Richest Bachelor Girl Became a Landlady | author= |date=May 16, 1937 |newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer|page=117|accessdate=July 19, 2017|via=newspapers.com|subscription=yes}} 10. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://www.aspetucklandtrust.org/17202|title=Weston: Stonebridge Preserve|website=Aspetuck Land Trust|accessdate=July 18, 2017}} 11. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://www.thewestonforum.com/47810/weston-historical-society-house-tour-public-gets-glimpse-of-landmark-homes/|title=Weston Historical Society house tour: Public gets glimpse of landmark homes|author=Patricia Gay|date=May 8, 2015|accessdate=July 19, 2017}} 12. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/unforgettable-palm-beach-early-gallery-owners-patrons-ushered-art-explosion/5ns6hlc8QhtmTN3DmmFsVL/ |title=Unforgettable Palm Beach: Early gallery owners, patrons ushered in art explosion|author=Augustus Mayhew|date=April 23, 2011|website=Palm Beach Daily News}} 13. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite web|url=http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/social-history/2009/palm-beach-social-history|title=Palm Beach Social History|date=April 23, 2009|website=New York Social Diary|accessdate=July 18, 2017}} 14. ^1 {{cite book|author=Susan Ware|title=Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WSaMu4F06AQC&pg=PA378|year=2004|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-01488-6|page=378}} 15. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.americantheatre.org/2016/11/07/this-month-in-theatre-history-19/|title=This Month in Theatre History|date=November 7, 2016|website=American Theatre|accessdate=July 19, 2017}} 16. ^1 {{cite book|title=Dominion Law Reports|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5hlQAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA251|year=1922|publisher=Canada Law Book Company|pages=251–252}} 17. ^{{cite book|author=Robert A Schanke|title=Angels in the American Theater: Patrons, Patronage, and Philanthropy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MEDLIJdtFnEC&pg=PA70|year=2007|publisher=SIU Press|isbn=978-0-8093-2747-8|page=70}} Further reading
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