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Married. Miss Jeanne Eagles, 27, famed actress ("Sadie Thompson" in Rain to Edward Harris ("Ted") Coy, 37, perhaps the most successful backfield football player who ever represented Yale; in Stamford, Conn. In 1909 as Captain of his team he was credited with defeating Harvard and Princeton almost singlehanded. *Last January he was divorced in Paris by Sophie D'Antignac Meldrim Coy, daughter of a onetime President of the American Bar Association...
...come to see a boxing match, not a pillow fight between a couple of roommates. In the center of the ring Paul Berlenbach, cloudy-faced Light Heavyweight Champion, stood with his huge arms around Tony Marullo, New Orleans fondler. Now and then they stepped apart, dealt each other coy fillips. The referee warned the fighters against petting. They did not heed. Customers' catcalls grew louder. At length the referee ended the disgraceful scene, ordered both from the ring...
...death just in time to avert a happy ending. Chuckle production, still profuse, rests chiefly on: 1) The incongruous appearance of old family bywords ; 2) cretinous actions by the characters; 3) obtuse conversations as between one amiable dunderhead and another ; 4) childish horseplay with modern solemnities; 5) feints at coy indelicacy. If the reader at times identifies the author with his hero, that is because, in the funny business, the last, not the first, 100 years are the hardest. It is impossible to be a success at anything, even clowning, and not take one's work a trifle seriously...
Divorced. Edward Harris ("Ted") Coy, onetime (1909) All-American football fullback and Yale captain, by Sophie D'Antignac Meldrini Coy; in Paris. She charged desertion...
...Institute. The pictures, 325 in number, had been chosen by a jury which for many weeks searched the U. S., selecting from proposed entries those which best recommended themselves to the eye, with a continual hope of discovering among young artists some mute, inglorious Millet, some untrumpeted Whistler or coy Corot. The pictures were put on view; prizes were awarded. To Eugene F. Savage of Manhattan went the Frank G. Logan medal, carrying with it $1,500, for his painting Recessional, which showed (lifesize) the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, fire in their nostrils, clouds in their hair, racing...