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...party. In the boxes most of Manhattan's great butlers sat among the servants they had hired and trained, while below them on the floor their footmen and maids danced. Some of them unbent to the point of dancing with a pretty parlor maid. Those who were British-born and trained reminisced fondly on Britain's great pre-War entertaining when 20 maids and 20 valets would accompany their masters and mistresses to a great house for the weekend, bringing outside gossip. Some of the footmen and chauffeurs were also British but the rest of the butlers...
Spiritualism's "Grand Old Man" was at the convention last week-white-haired, leonine Dr. Alexander J. Mclvor-Tyndall, 92. British-born, he studied medicine, turned to Spiritualism propounding the theory that thought, hidden in the recesses of the brain, may be brought out and photographed. Dr. Mclvor-Tyndall. has helped Scotland Yard with murder cases, notably that of a Mrs. Florence Maybrick who was convicted of poisoning her husband. He protested her innocence, was proven right when another person confessed. Last week Dr. Mclvor-Tyndall spoke to the convention on "The Dynamic Message of Spiritualism." Four times...
...should call Gibson a contemptible little bounder," drawled British-born Mrs. Litvinov...
Last January British-born Rev. Thomas Frederick Rutledge Beale of St. Paul, Minn, went to court seeking U. S. citizenship. He had refused to promise to bear arms for the U. S.-prime requisite-because he believes that the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact has effectively outlawed war (TIME, Jan. 16). Last week Alien Beale's application was finally refused. He was doubtless aware that in Lima, Ohio last month, Russian-born Professor John Klassen of Bluffton College was granted citizenship upon his promise to serve the U. S. as a noncombatant; that the judge who granted...
Married. Lily Busch Magnus, great-granddaughter of the late St. Louis Brewer Adolphus Busch; and Arthur D. B. Preece, British-born St. Louis sportsman; in St. Louis. Three days before the wedding, gunmen captured the country house of George S. Tiffany, knocked him out, planned to rob his guests at a luncheon for the bride & groom, until foiled by a steward from the swank Bridlespur Club...