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...Clare A. Briggs, cartoonist (When a Feller Needs a Friend, The Days of Real Sport, Ain't It a Grand and Glorious Feeling), suffering from neuritis of the optic nerve, went to Baltimore for treatment and observation at Johns Hopkins Hospital...
...hundred years ago in England, Roman Catholics could not be seated in Parliament without taking oaths that meant the renunciation of their faith. Then Irish Catholics of County Clare elected Daniel O'Connell to Parliament, threatened to elect him repeatedly until seated. Fearing civil war an unwilling Parliament and unwilling King George IV passed the Emancipation Bill, giving Catholics equal political rights with Protestants...
...WOMAN OF IT-Clare Ogden Davis -Sears ($2.50). Though onetime assistant to Mrs. Miriam Amanda Ferguson, former Governor of Texas, Author Davis forgets whatever she may have learned of female politicians. Her novel contains the highly artificial story of a woman governor who sacrificed her politics for her man. Obvious, banal, stupid, didactic, the Davis style has all the anemia of a lady's home journal...
...unfaithful to him and who finds solace in the love of a girl who has been planted in his house by a gang of crooks, is as complicated as it sounds, yet never quite silly and never vulgar. A drama of manner is intended. The dialog, written by Clare Kummer, is civilized. The settings are beautiful; the cast, bought from the legitimate theatre and including Marguerite Churchill and Kenneth MacKenna, takes pains with its material. The result is tedious because the medium is still too crude for the effect attempted. You sorely miss the old-fashioned bathos of those pictures...
...daughter was born to a man who later became Governor of Rome. At 16 she was described as "a beautiful young girl, high spirited, with the daring recklessness of a lad." She was called the Countess Annette Bentivoglio. At 26 she put away the world, entered the Poor Clare Convent in San Lorenzo. Thereafter she was known as "Mother Mary Magdalene." In time she journeyed to the U. S., founded a convent in Omaha, and one in Evansville...