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Married. Corporal Lawrence Tibbett Jr., 22, twin son of the operatic baritone; and Edith Ernestine Witte, 21, daughter of the late Schumann-Heink's late manager, Roland Witte; in Pasadena, where Tibbett Jr. is in the Army Signal Corps...
...beat the gas & rubber shortage Manhattan's Mrs. Kingdon Gould took the old family carriages out of moth balls, sent Daughter Edith to buy a pair of horses. Inexperienced Daughter Edith came back with a pair of brewery-truck-model Percherons...
Died. Jessie Bond, 89, last but one of the original Savoyards,* player of numerous Gilbert & Sullivan roles (including Iolanthe, Pitti-Sing in The Mikado, Edith in The Pirates of Penzance) ; in Worthing, England. She retired in 1896. Only surviving Savoyard: Durward Lely of Glasgow...
...same hearings, Massachusetts Representative Edith Nourse Rogers, instigator of the bill, said she did not know "a human being who is opposed to the bill," and no one gainsaid her. The only things that delayed the bill were working details: whether the women should be part of the Army or separate, whether to limit enrollment, what to do about uniforms, age limits, ranks, pay. The Senate will probably pass the House bill this week, permitting the War Department to employ up to 150,000 "women of excellent character in good physical health, between the ages of 21 and 45 years...
...near Charleroi and left for dead on the field. Captured by the Germans, he made his first escape via Holland to England, aided by his fluent German, variously disguised as a butcher, stableboy, coal man, and magician in a traveling circus. At one point he was helped by Nurse Edith Cavell. In 1915 he was back with the French Fifth Army...