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...Captain's two children, a boy of nine and a girl of eight, are his by a previous marriage. She?"Captain" Barker??? was originally Miss Lilias Irma Valerie Barker, daughter of a rich, landed proprietor on the Isle of Jersey, Thomas William Barker, who died some 15 years ago. Miss Barker was in service at Mons and elsewhere in the War area as a Red Cross nurse and ambulance driver. In 1918 she married an Australian officer, Colonel Harold Arkell Smith, who begot her two children. Some five years later she discovered her tendency to transvestism, yielded to it, renounced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Transvestite | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...Barker???A ballyhoo romance of the circus, colorful and tense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing in Manhattan | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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