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...while Lorna Whittelsey was winning and hoping, Miss Sears coasted cautiously around the course for a fourth place and the cup that Mrs. Charles Francis Adams put up in 1925, 30½ points to Miss Whittelsey's 28¼. Distantly related to Boston's famed society athlete Eleanora Sears, Ruth Sears won the championship for Cohasset in 1925 and 1926, has not competed for it since 1927. Added to her sailing skill last week was her knowledge of conditions. She does most of her racing in a Manchester boat, knows Cohasset harbor well because she has sailed there...
...squash racquets for women is still something of a novelty. It started a few years ago in Boston, where Miss Eleanora Sears and her friends were allowed the use of courts in men's clubs at odd hours. When Manhattan and Philadelphia clubs added courts to keep up with the sudden growth of men's squash racquets, women took to using them. The Junior League in Manhattan built two courts, the Cosmopolitan Club another. There are now 17 clubs in the Metropolitan (Manhattan) Women's Squash Racquets League, formed last autumn. In Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, women...
...birthday. She could not imagine anyone doing such a thing, thought someone was playing a joke, hung up. Another story indicates the utter seriousness with which Actress Cornell takes the theatre, no matter on which side of the footlights she happens to be. At a performance by Eleanora Duse, a celebrated actress and her companion assisted the audience in bringing the play to a momentary halt by standing up and cheering. From behind them came the authoritative voice of Katharine Cornell: "Sit down, you damned fools...
...William Faversham, both historic stage wooers, have already this season displayed their best cavalier postures in plays productive of little else (TIME, Oct. 21, Nov. 4). They are now followed by Lou Tellegen, an actor of bearing as lordly as befits a onetime leading man of Sarah Bernhardt and Eleanora Duse. As a bandit?descendant of the wildly surmising explorer Cor-tez?he descends upon a cinema company taking pictures in the Mexican mountains. To his castle on the crags he carries the stately leading lady (Helen Baxter) and numerous others, including a cameraman's little fiancee (Dorothea Chard...
...Married. Eleanora Ambrose Maurice, 27, widow and partner of the late Dancer Maurice (Mouvet); to Samuel Katz, 37, potent president of Publix Theatres, of which there are 1,100, including Manhattan's gold-domed Paramount Theatre; in Stamford, Conn. For his bride Cinemagnate Katz is constructing a "city" on a hillside near Centenary, N. Y. It will contain lakes, bridges, swimming pools, 150-car garage, tennis courts, bowling alleys, a house that would cover an entire city block, a separate "hotel" for Katz guests...