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Zamfira's only unhappiness was that she was childless. She never suspected the fault might be Anghel's, as it was. Though she saw John falling in love with her she decided not to cross that bridge till she had to. At last Anghel, in an agony of unselfishness, suggested to both of them that John give her the longed-for baby. When they took him at his word his reaction was equally agonizing. By this time John was ready to do anything that would keep him near Zamfira-even willing to marry Zamfira's sister...
...Naples, Belinda Warren (Miss Laye) has returned to the dank residence of her frosty aunt. The inescapable laws of biology soon com plicate Belinda's problem. She is to have a baby. Unhappily, the baby's illegitimate father is already married to a childless invalid. The baby's illegitimate grandfather rationally proposes that the little newcomer be smuggled into his son's home, passed off as his son's legal heir...
...divorce. By the terms of his will, Mrs. Hewitt II receives one-third of the income from a $1,300,000 trust fund, Ann Hewitt two-thirds-the daughter's share to pass to her children, if any, or to revert to her mother if she should die childless. In San Francisco last week Daughter Hewitt brought suit for $500,000 damages against Mother Hewitt, two physicians and a State psychologist. She charged that her mother, greedy for the whole trust fund income, had had her sterilized. From the fantastic miasma of charges and counter-charges which promptly enveloped...
...made Miss Adams famed. The piece was Sir James Barrie's Dear Brutus. The leading man was William Gillette.* And there was not a dry eye in the house when Helen Hayes got through wringing the last teardrop out of the scene in the wood where Gillette, the childless artist, meets the daughter he might have...
...Louise Brown in Perry, Me. 65 years ago this week. She was graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1892, taught school in White River Junction, Vt., Rockville, Conn. and Mount Clemens, Mich. In 1904 she married James Edward Leslie, Pittsburgh dramatic critic. After her husband's death in 1917 childless Widow Leslie filled in for a few months as dramatic editor of the Pittsburgh Dispatch, then went to live with relatives in Michigan. Late in 1918 she appeared at the office of the Detroit News, asked...