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Married. Barbara Sands, granddaughter of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt; to Lieut. George Raymond Burgess, U. S. A.; secretly, in Baltimore. The bride gave her name...
Captain Matthew Webb in 1875 and William Burgess in 1911 had demonstrated that if you really felt like it you could swim across the English Channel. So that was that. But when various women from the U. S., and fat bakers from the continent began playing hob with the time-record, Lord George Riddell, owner of News of the World (London daily), saw that it would be suitable for a subject of King George's to swim along with them, faster, at least than the U. S. women. He posted ?1,000 ($4,870) to that end. Last week...
...bloodhounds draw near Karrie's bedroom where a knight errant is being irreproachably entertained. Unlike most other current comedies, this one strives to root its action in human nature rather than a bagful of funny lines. The role of Karith Barry is so deftly interpreted by Dorothy Burgess that an audience not too sternly realistic will follow the play with sympathy, even overlooking the too gushy spots...
...hungrily at the gaunt official, "I am a butcher. . . ." He had not, on the long slow trip, behaved like one. As Gertrude Ederle, having splashed through the breakers at Cape Gris Nez, fell into a slow crawl beside the tug, "Pop" Ederle sat on deck, chatting comfortably to Thomas Burgess (trainer), Helmi (Egyptian swimmer), Miss Cannon (another U. S. Channel aspirant) and one Timson (Boston swimmer). In the bow was a brass band. On the tug's side was a great white arrow with the legend, "This Way, Ole Kid." The band played The Star-Spangled Banner. Miss Ederle...
Kane (Harvard), Miller (Stan.), Paulson (Yale). Ascher (Georgetown), Proudlook (Syracuse), Burns (H. C.), Cooke (Syracuse), McDonald (Penn), Burgess (Georgetown...