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Before Morning (by Edna & Edward P. Riley; Albert Bannister & John G. Norman, producers) is a mystery play which, although it refrains from bringing the murderer on the stage until Act III, does mystify. It has to do with an unemployed but practical actress who, to support herself and invalid child, is about to marry a rich gentleman from Detroit. At the news of this betrothal, an elderly banker, one of the actress's sweethearts, faints dead away. Rallying round, still other of her gentlemen friends prepare to remove the banker to a more discreet resting place, a somewhat shady...
...sister Anne, the late Elizabeth Marbury and Amelia Earhart Putnam were among them. Her big offices on Fifth Avenue were always busy. Just before the stockmarket crash, as a member of the Committee on the Financial Education of Women she headed a thrift exposition in Manhattan. Last week Edna V. O'Brien was arrested for grand larceny...
...James John Walker at Cape Ferrat, French Riviera, but not too ill to chirp: "Do I eat like I was sick or dead?" Edna Ferber, infected in London, convalesced at nearby Nice. In Paris the American Hospital opened two special wards to care for numerous LL S. victims. Forehanded Paris undertakers formally declared that they were short of coffins...
Before a Connecticut justice of the peace one Edna Newton, 21, sulkily accused a Louis Rebuzzini, 28. of fathering her child. The justice believed her. Louis Rebuzzini hired a resourceful lawyer, who in turn hired Dr. Alexander S. Wiener, Brooklyn blood specialist. Dr. Wiener took samples of blood from mother, child and alleged father, examined the bloods this way & that according to the dicta of Nobel Laureate Karl Landsteiner. Last week litigants, lawyers and blood man appeared before a county court in New Haven...
...While Edna Newton listened sulkily and Louis Rebuzzini sullenly, Dr. Wiener discoursed about blood types O. A. B & AB and certain substances called agglutinogens M & N, reasoned that if this-blood man fertilized that-blood woman, their offspring must have this-or-that blood and could not have such-or-such blood. All this meant that the Landsteiner blood groups can show only that a man is not a child's father. But not in every case can blood matching prove innocence. For example, two putative fathers may belong to the same blood group. Nonetheless, the blood groups suffice...