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...aristocrat in Japan, sympathetic toward parliamentary government, yet popular with the Navy and head of Japan's great fighting Fujiwara Clan. Legend makes His Highness a direct descendant of the most exalted Lesser Deity who was in attendance on the Sun Goddess when she created the Earth and begat Japan's present Imperial Family to rule it. History indicates that Japan's 124 Goddess-descended Emperors have been happy to accept from the fighting Fujiwara Clan a phenomenally long number of Fujiwara women as Empresses. Today a eugenist would probably say that the Son of Heaven...
...Spear, singer; in Juarez, Mexico, where in absentia Novelist Lewisohn obtained a divorce from his first wife, Mrs. Mary Arnold Crocker Childs Lewisohn, Author "Bosworth Crocker." In Poland eleven years ago Novelist Lewisohn obtained a rabbinical divorce, the validity of which has since been questioned. He married Miss Spear, begat a child. The Mexican divorce and proxy marriage were an attempt to legalize his position. Mrs. Lewisohn I, who in 1924 obtained a separation providing $55 a week alimony, called the Juarez proceedings "laughable...
...such Uniat sect, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, two friends began laboring years ago. Nicholas Shumsky and Andrew Sarmatiuk took wives, each performing a marriage ceremony for the other. They went to Canada, a mission field of their church. Father Sarmatiuk begat two children. Used as they were to married priests in the old country, the Ukrainians whom they shepherded saw nothing unusual about the status of the two fathers. But Mother Church did. In her ponderous, methodical way she discovered that the marriages, respectively 20 and 14 years old, were invalid. Fathers Shumsky and Sarmatiuk had broken the rules...
Anna Turkel was Anna Turkel. Her father was an Austrian immigrant who settled in Woonsocket. R.I. and begat eight children. Anna, the eldest, was determined to be a singer and Father Turkel was equally determined that she should never change her name. Anna made sure-fire copy because she was once a sweetmeat seller at the Metropolitan Opera House where she listened constantly to such singers as Lucrezia Bori, Rosa Ponselle, Maria Jeritza. In Europe she did well by the name of Turkel. But Chicago last week found her cold and immature...
...attended a show on the roof of Madison Square Garden. There without warning Thaw shot White dead. At the trial the Thaw defense was temporary insanity ("a brain storm''). Acquitted of murder, Thaw was committed to an asylum for the criminally insane. He enjoyed enough freedom to begat a child one visiting day. Later he escaped, gained legal release. After her husband divorced her in 1915, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw led a precarious existence, in vaudeville and second-rate night clubs. For several years she worked in Chicago, lately in Atlantic City...