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Pomp and Circumstance May 13, 2022

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Heiresses dream of royal romances with fairytale endings. As one marries her prince, another dances with a future king.

#BarbaraHutton, #QueenElizabethII, #KingEdwardVIII, #PlatinumJubilee, #PrinceAlexisMdivani, #LouiseVanAlen, #PrinceofWales

Louise Van Alen marries Prince Alexis Mdivani despite her family’s objections. Barbara Hutton goes to Buckingham Palace to bow before the King and Queen of England and meets the future British king David, the Prince of Wales. Could a royal romance bloom?

Other people and subjects include: May 15th – 1931, Daisy Van Alen, Sam Van Alen, Henry Van Alen, Eleanor Van Alen, Prince David – Prince of Wales – King Edward VIII – Duke of Windsor, Newport cottage Wakehurst, Buckingham Palace, King George V, Queen Mary, Thelma Morgan Furness, Sultana of Johore, Ambassador Mrs. Charles Dawes, Virginia Dawes, Prince Albert “Bertie” – Duke of York – King George VI, Helena McCann, appendicitis, research and finding coinciding events, longest and shortest monarch reigns, King Louis XIV, Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Queen Elizabeth II, and the upcoming Platinum Jubilee.

Extra Notes / Call to Action:
Queens Podcast by Katy Hearne-Church and Nathan Foster, https://shows.acast.com/queenshistorypodcast

Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.
Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands
Section 1 Music: Everything Stops For Tea by Mario “Harp” Lorenzi, Album The Great Dance Bands Play Hits Of The 30s
Section 2 Music: It Had To Be You by Carroll Gibbons, Album It’s Got To Be Love
Section 3 Music: The Eyes Of The World by Louis Levy, Album The Great British Dance Bands
End Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands

Covered Losses Apr 29, 2022

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Though wealth provides some protections, the seeds of despair can grow anywhere.

Another life is lost during a game of chance.

James Donahue, Sr. plays cards with his sons and friends when he goes downstairs and takes poison. Days later, James dies in the same hospital where his wife Jessie Woolworth Donahue is recovering from a nervous breakdown. No one knows why he commits suicide – James struggles with gambling, monetary losses, gambling, and secret homosexuality. This was not the first time these became an issue.

Other people and subjects include: April 13th – 25th, 1931, October 1925, Barbara Hutton, Jimmy “Jeem” Donahue, Woolworth “Woolly” Donahue, Assistant District Attorney Ferdinand Pecora, suicide, prominent suicides, jewelry burglary, homosexuality, New York vice crackdowns during Prohibition, gambling debts, dealing with any death, and finding joy after trauma as recovery process.

Extra Notes / Call to Action:
The Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-TALK or 1-800-273-8255, www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org
The VA hospital

Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.
Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands
Section 1 Music: A Foggy Day by Carroll Gibbons, Album Sophistication 3
Section 2 Music: Just A Mood by Benny Carter & His Orchestra, Album Nightfall – Sophisticated Jazz Classics
Section 3 Music: Lost In A Fog by Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra, Album Nightfall – Sophisticated Jazz Classics End Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands

The Glass Cage Apr 15, 2022

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Love is certainly in the air this spring as several engagements and weddings occur. Though not all marital alliances are truly desirable, and some are downright scandalous.

Richest boy Huntington Hartford celebrates Spring Break and his 20th birthday by eloping with Mary Lee Epling. They keep their marriage a secret especially from his overbearing mother Henrietta Hartford, but the scandal will surely come out.

Other people and subjects include: April 1931, Louise Van Alen, Prince Alexis Mdivani, Ned Rollins, Mildred King, Harvard dormitory, Gottlieb Daimler, Wilhelm Maybach, Daimler, Mercedes, Jaguar, silverspoons, Don Quixote, Ottoman Harem & princes, Newport cottage Seaverge with glass gymnasium, Will Smith – Chris Rock Oscar slap, elopement, fishbowl life in the public eye, and Titanic 110th Anniversary.

Extra Notes / Call to Action:
Empires Podcast The Ottomans by Frank Schumpert
https://anchor.fm/frank-schumpert3/
https://podcasts.apple.com/pl/podcast/empires-podcast-the-ottomans/id1439365965

Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.
Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands
Section 1 Music: Plain Mary Jane by Mrs. Jack Hylton, Album The Great British Dance Bands
Section 2 Music: Ain’t She Sweet by Piccadilly Revels Band, Album Charleston – Great Stars Of the 20s
Section 3 Music: The Girl Friend by Savoy Orpheans, Album Charleston – Great Stars Of The 1920s
End Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands

Masquerade - Second Anniversary Bonus Apr 03, 2022

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All they want is love. Everyone else wants their fortune.

Second Anniversary Bonus Recap and Future Storylines.

Other people and subjects include: Barbara Hutton, Doris Duke, heirs, heiresses, Great Depression timeline of events to 1931, HBO’s Gilded Age, Bridgerton, Downton Abbey, Inventing Anna, Tinder Swindler, Bad Vegan, and similar fortune hunter & romance scandals in popular media.

Extra Notes / Call to Action:
Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com

https://asthemoneyburns.com/
TW / IG – @asthemoneyburns
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/asthemoneyburns/

Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.
Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands
Section 1 Music: I’ve Got An Invitation To Dance by Roy Fox, Album The Great Dance Bands Play Hits of the 30s
Section 2 Music: Swinging at Maida by Benny Carter & His Orchestra, Album Jazz Age!
Section 3 Music: Ooh! That Kiss! by Carroll Gibbons, Album Elegance 2
End Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands

Coldest End Mar 31, 2022

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Millionaires, movie stars, and royalty have no guarantees on marital bliss. A royal prince trades his silver screen queen for a wealthier songbird.

Mourning her lover Rudolph Valentino, silver screen siren Pola Negri meets, marries, and divorces Russian Prince Serge Mdivani. Her rival Mae Murray meets and marries Prince David Mdivani. The two celebrity couples compete with each other to disastrous results. As Pola’s money disappears, Prince Serge finds another wealthy songbird Mary McCormic.

Other people and subjects include: March – April 1931, Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, Claire Windsor, Ziegfeld Follies, bankruptcy, celebrity divorce battles, Johnny Depp v Amber Heard, Brad Pitt v Angelina Jolie, Tinder Swindler, Bad Vegan, ending messy romantic entanglements, and two year anniversary of As The Money Burns podcast.

Extra Notes / Call to Action:
Female Podcasts:
Mimosa Sisterhood by Melissa Herrera https://www.mimosasisterhood.com/
Proud Stutter by Maya Chupkov https://www.proudstutter.com/
Mujeres On The Rise by Melba Tellez https://www.mujeresontherise.com/

Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.
Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands
Section 1 Music: Let’s Fall In Love For The Last Time by Mantovani, Albums The Great British Dance Bands & Tea Dance 2
Section 2 Music: Stardust by Freddie Gardner, Album More Sophistication
Section 3 Music: You Go To My Head by Joe Loss, Album The Great British Dance Bands
End Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands

Stroke of Luck Mar 18, 2022

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An unlucky filmmaker’s Viking voyage finds disaster at sea, while the luck of the Irish brings better news for a tennis star.

Young filmmaker Varick Frissell ventures to the frozen Newfoundland and shoot more scenes of a seal hunt for his film White Thunder. Only tragedy strikes. Meanwhile, tennis sensation and non-heir Frank Shields learns he will represent the United States at Davis Cup freeing him from the drudgery of his job as a bank loan officer.

Other people and subjects include: March 1931, James Donahue, Jessie Woolworth Donahue, Rebecca “Billie” Tenney, Antoinette “Toni” Frissell, Hollywood film disasters, Rudolph Valentino’s the Sheikh, artic exploration, North Pole, Robert Peary, Frederick Cook, Explorers Club, Waldorf-Astoria NY, Prince Philip – Duke of Edinburgh, astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, Jeff Bezos, and modern exotic culinary delicacies.

Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.
Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands
Section 1 Music: The Eyes Of The World by Louis Levy, Album The Great British Dance Bands
Section 2 Music: A Reckless Night On Board An Ocean by Sydney Lipton, Album The Great Dance Bands Play Hits of the 30s
Section 3 Music: Got To Dance My Way To Heaven by Henry Hall, Albums The Great British Dance Bands & Tea Dance 2
End Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands

Believe It or Not Mar 04, 2022

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Many are talented and can do some pretty amazing things, but there is one trick that only a very few can do, Believe It or Not.

Plenty of manly activities fill the Palm Beach schedule amidst baseball, boxing, and burglaries. At the bat and base, Jimmy Cromwell and Phil Plant play for a charity police fundraiser.

Other people and subjects include: February 28th – March 5th, 1931, Barbara Hutton, Jimmy Cromwell, Bill Wright, (Ned) Ed Stotesbury, Marjorie Merriweather Post, EF Hutton, Jessie Woolworth Donahue, James Donahue, Prince Alexis Mdivani, Louise Van Alen, Elizabeth “Betty” Kent, Primo Carnera, Tommy Loughran, Horace Dodge, Jr., Atwater Kent, Max Baer, Albert Einstein, Frank Dolan, John Todd, charity events, Ripley’s Believe It or Not column & tv series, He-Man term in Our Gang and separate toy cartoon series, Buck Rogers, Daffy Duck as Duck Dodgers, and connection between Helene Jesmer & Batman’s Catwoman Julie Newmar.

Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.
Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands
Section 1 Music: Swingin’ The Blues by Benny Carter & His Orchestra, Album Perfect Blues
Section 2 Music: Swinging at Maida by Benny Carter & His Orchestra, Album Jazz Age!
Section 3 Music: I Feel Like A Feather In The Breeze by Carroll Gibbons, Album The Age of Style – Hits from the 30s
End Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands

Millionheir Feb 18, 2022

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Heiresses must always fight off fortune hunters willing to break their hearts for money. But there is another heir who presents a whole other level of danger.

Everyone gathers in Palm Beach for winter and lunch at the seasonal restaurant the Patio Lamaze. Barbara Hutton and Doris Duke meet and mingle with another heir and Broadway playboy Phil Plant, who is far more dangerous than all the rest.

Other people and subjects include: February 1931, Nanaline Duke, Franklyn Hutton, Jimmy Cromwell, Jessie Woolworth Donahue, James Donahue, Harry Winston, Evalyn Walsh McLean, Hope Diamond, Harry Winston, Mrs. Curtis Hutton aka Sophia Brownell, Countess Di Frasso, Constance Bennett, Adela Rogers St. Johns, Maise Caldwell, Morton Plant, Helene Jesmer, Claire Windsor, George LaMaze, personal injury lawsuit, triple homicide, Tinder Swindler, Inventing Anna, and the vulnerability of being conned.

Extra Notes / Call to Action:
Presidencies of the United States podcast by Jerry Landry, http://presidencies.blubrry.com/

Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.
Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands
Section 1 Music: On The Beach At Bali Bali by Billy Merrin & His Commanders, Albums The Great Dance Bands Play Hits of the 30s & Tea Dance 2
Section 2 Music: Ain’t She Sweet by Piccadilly Revels Band, Album Charleston – Great Stars Of the 20s
Section 3 Music: Temptation Rag by Harry Roy, Album The Great British Dance Bands
End Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands

Critic's Choice Feb 04, 2022

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Despite her own dire circumstances, one hostess continues her duties in supporting the arts. The show must always go on.

Supreme hostess Cobina Wright hosts a party to celebrate the Met opening of Deems Taylor’s new opera and Noel Coward. It’s another fabulous party, but everything seems to be an endless loop as things change while still staying the same.

Other people and subjects include: January – February 1931, Bill Wright, Algonquin Roundtable, George du Maurier, Owen Johnson, Dorothy Parker, Peter Pan, Daphne du Maurier (stories Rebecca & The Birds), Alfred Hitchcock, Lucrezia Bori, John Barrymore, Svengali, JM Barrie, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Disney Fantasia, Russian ballet, Vaslav Nijinsky & Rite of Spring, Stravinsky, Lily James, Drew Barrymore, Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Freddie Highmore, and HBO’s Gilded Age & fortunes related to stories.

Extra Notes / Call to Action:
Instagram Gilded Age mentions: @MansionsoftheGildedAge, @TheGildedAgeSociety, and @GothamsGildedAge

@AsTheMoneyBurns & @PastPerfectVintageMusic
New York Adventure Club www.nyadventureclub.com

Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.
Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands
Section 1 Music: Eeny Meeny Miney Mo by Harry Roy, Albums The Great Dance Bands Play Hits of the 30s & Tea Dance 2
Section 2 Music: The Very Thought of You by Al Bowlly, Album More Sophistication
Section 3 Music: Eeny Meeny Miney Mo by Harry Roy, Albums The Great Dance Bands Play Hits of the 30s & Tea Dance 2
End Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands

Ladies Section Jan 21, 2022

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While some seem to have plenty of food and money, the rising unemployment leaves many without. One wealthy couple sets up a place where the poor can get a hot meal.

EF Hutton ventures down into Hell’s Kitchen to check on the soup kitchen sponsored by him and his wife Marjorie Merriweather Post. Historical section covers Al Capone’s soup kitchen, and a news update about the starving Mahatma Gandhi in British Occupied India.

Other people and subjects include: January 1931, Salvation Army, Post Cereal fortune, Birds Eye frozen foods, General Mills, tenor Rafaelo Diaz, food insecurity, and the Great Depression effect on grandparents.

Extra Notes / Call to Action:
Nicki Woodard provided anecdotal research for: https://inculture.microsoft.com/arts/ancient-olympia-common-grounds/

Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.
Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands
Section 1 Music: Organ Grinder’s Song by Jack Payne, Album The Great British Dance Bands
Section 2 Music: Sing, Baby, Sing / You Turned The Tables On Me by Carroll Gibbons, Album The Age of Style – Hits from the 30s
Section 3 Music: You by Carroll Gibbons, Album The Age of Style – Hits from the 30s
End Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands

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