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...companion feature is entitled "Dear Miss Aldrich," and, strangely enough, it succeeds in being almost funny at times. Edna May Oliver stretches her face to unprecedented longitudinal dimensions, Maureen O'Sullivan glides along in a manner that is just too, too demure, and the audience seemed to enjoy themselves in a mild way. "Dear Miss Aldrich" tells the tale of a girl's fight for recognition in a newspaper man's world; it is not recommended for consumption, unless the reader is feeling in a particularly receptive mood
Manhattan's Midtown Galleries this week showed many an excellent piece of sculpture by saturnine Herbert Ferber, 31-year-old second cousin to Novelist Edna. Like Gargallo, Sculptor Ferber has worked in a blacksmith's shop to familiarize himself with metals, but his favorite materials are wood and stone which he frequently picks up on motor trips to Connecticut. Ferber has been working for only six years but has already been through four great influences in that period: African, Egyptian, Mexican and Lachaise. Best whittling: The Wrestlers, in mahogany, and Worker, in lignum-vitae. Best stone work...
Married. Jacques Achille Louis Raffray, insurance broker, to Mrs. Constance Edna de Bower; in Manhattan's City Court; Raffray's former wife last month married Captain Ernest Aldrich Simpson, whose former wife six months ago married the Duke of Windsor...
Divorced. Mrs. Constance Edna de Bower, onetime actress, from Herbert F. de Bower, Manhattan broker, in Reno. She declared she would marry Jacques Achille Louis Raffray, insurance broker, whose former wife fortnight ago married Ernest Aldrich Simpson, ship broker, whose former wife six months ago married he Duke of Windsor...
Married. Mrs. Edna Christian, 43, widowed mother of Charles J. B. Christian, 6, who is a great-great-grandson of Fletcher Christian, leader of H.M.S. Bounty's mutiny; to David Young, head of the present settlement of 204 persons on Pitcairn Island, where the eight rebellious English sailors, 18 Polynesian men & women landed in 1790; on Pitcairn...