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...eyesight six years ago. Lacking the necessary millions herself, she coaxed Dr. Wilmers Negro office servant William to give her a list of rich former patients. There were 338 of them. All - people like Mr. and Mrs. Breckinridge, Herbert Livingston Satterlee (Manhattan lawyer), Ira Clifton Copley (Illinois publisher), Mrs. Edith Oliver Rea (Pittsburgh iron and steel manufacturer), Joseph Pulitzer (whose father was blind), Daniel Willard (B. & O. R. R. president)-contributed handsomely. The Wilmer Institute with its professional staff and equipments outclasses any like organization in the U. S. and ranks equal to the great eye clinics at London, Paris...
...former star of "The Green Hat", now appearing at the Wilbur in the stage version of Edith Wharton's "Age of innocence" uses this vehicle as another step toward being claimed one of America's best. As Countess Olenska she takes advantage of every opportunity to display her emotional qualities and gives a delightful performance throughout...
Following the precedent of Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick who borrowed $11,000,000 by issuing notes against stocks held in trust (TIME, July 1), last week Mrs. Matilda R. Wilson, widow of Motor-maker John F. Dodge, offered through her bankers $3,000,000 worth of certificates at 6% interest in a collateral trust of municipal bonds...
...Miss Wethered seldom bothers to play in tournaments any more, the British Women's National played without her last week at Broadstone was little more than a series of illustrations of how well or badly England's golfstresses had mastered their copybook. Mrs. Herbert Guedalla, who as Edith Leitch sometimes used to give Miss Wethered a close match, seemed formidable until a red-cheeked girl named Diana Fishwick put her out in the semifinal. In the final Miss Fishwick played Miss Molly Gourley of Camberley Heath whose game, like her name, moved with the jolly confident rhythm...
...Chicago, the Woman's Symphony Orchestra gave its first concert in memory of Mrs. Julius Rosenwald, wife of the famed Chicago philanthropist. In the spring, shortly before her death, Mrs. Rosenwald (with Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, Mrs. Ernest R. Graham, Mrs. Charles H. Swift and others) gave $1,000 toward the orchestra's upkeep. Under Conductor Ebba Sundstrom, the orchestra played its thanks. Katherine Witwer, Gary, Ind., girl, sang...