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...Beery countered that she had been to Nevada with Cinema Director Raymond Wells on "purely a business matter." Added she: "Will you please ascertain what reward Mr. Beery offered for my discovery? If it is sufficiently large I will have myself brought in" at once." Mrs. Elizabeth Reeve Cutter Morrow, wife of the retiring Ambassador to Mexico and Republican candidate for Senator from New Jersey, saw her first book, The Painted Pig (Knopf, $2), off the press. For children from five to ten years, The Painted Pig is illustrated with 15 color pictures and is dedicated to Constance, youngest Morrow...
...much for her; she meets Gordon sometimes, goes to an occasional party. But the dénouement is not far off. Pelter's enemy Corning discovers Pelter's secret, that all Mirthful Haven but no summer visitor knows. He tips off the revenue cutter. That night Pelter is led into a trap, tries to escape, is shot. Then everything comes out. Mrs. Corning rescues her son in the nick of time from his fishing-village demimondaine; he allows himself to be rescued, leaves without even saying goodbye. Instead, he sends his brother to make family apologies...
...yacht of John Pierpont Morgan, with Mr. and Mrs. Junius Spencer Morgan aboard, shelved herself on Lobster Rock, a reef in Gilkey's Harbor, Maine. Next morning at high tide two tugs heaved sturdily, budged her not. At evening high tide two tugs and a coast guard cutter heaved mightily, floated her free. Mr. Morgan received the news at Gannochy Lodge in Forfarshire where he had gone for the grouseshooting...
...racing yacht Britannia, puffing cigarets in wet and squally weather His Majesty King George won his 200th and 201st yacht races last week at Cowes, Isle of Wight. It was a bad week for other yachtsmen at Cowes. Lucilla, smart 12-metre yacht, was crashed into by the big cutter Lulworth...
William Saunders, steward on the Lucilla, was drowned. Tom Wright, seaman on Lord Waring's cutter White Heather, had both his legs broken in a squall. Three other yachts were dismasted or overturned. Britannia was kept out of the races one day with a split mainsail...