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...virtue of two male voices upraised last week, it was virtually assured that another woman will enter Congress soon. At present there are four U. S. Congresswomen-Mrs. Florence Prag Kahn of California, Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, Mrs. John W. Langley of Kentucky, Mrs. Mary P. Norton of New Jersey. The new & likely candidate is Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, daughter and widow of politicians, who wittily copied President Coolidge and "chose" to run for Republican Congresswoman-at-large from Illinois. The male voices which last week boomed Mrs. McCormick's nomination in the primary next spring...
...BEGINNERS-Henry Kitchell Webster-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Edward Patterson, 45, married, father of Edith and Edward, suddenly breaks with a frantic gesture out of the insurance business by means of which he has been supporting his family in good style. Eagerness for variety makes him go so far as to try to sell a mechanical device for automobiles. Poor returns on this venture make it necessary for his daughter to leave school, his son to work through college. Edward Patterson gives up. He makes amends to his wife who resents his incipient affair with Ruth Ingraham, returns to insurance selling...
...Edith with golden hair...
When Pauline Frederick, U. S. cinemactress, was "recalled" to the U. S. last week and her place in the Edith Cavell film, now being "shot" in Belgium, was given to Sybil Thorndyke, English actress, a mighty hullabaloo went up on all sides-but it was all about Edith Cavell, the British nurse that the Germans shot as a spy on Oct. 12, 1915, not about Pauline Frederick...
...accorded only U. S. Presidents, kings, queens and-as despatches put it-"others of real distinction." Prince Wilhelm of Sweden was allowed to go quietly, almost unnoticed, through Chicago streets to breakfast at the Cliff Dweller's Club with Julius Rosenwald, John Tinney McCutcheon,* Samuel Insull, Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick...