Word: elmira
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...there are occasions when, on the stage, a playwright's line overshoots its dramatic mark and hits the audience on the funnybone. At Plumes in the Dust, which presents Actor Henry Hull as Edgar Allan Poe, one of several such shots occurred last week when Poe confessed to Elmira Shelton that he had been drinking, and Elmira, looking with tragic concern at his haggard face, exclaimed: ''Oh, Edgar, will you Take the Pledge...
Edgar Allan Poe returns as an undergraduate from the University of Virginia where he has been drinking and gambling, not because he enjoyed such sports but because he was sent there without sufficient money and because there were no letters from Elmira. Meanwhile Elmira has married, having received no letters from him, although he wrote to her every day. What happened to the letters is not explained. Poe's foster father, who comports himself like Simon Legree with a Scotch burr, sends him away. He goes to live with Mrs. Clemm and her 13-year-old daughter Virginia, whom...
...party in the famed salon of Anne Lynch in Manhattan, threatens to thrash a man who is slandering his character, starts drinking from the punch bowl instead. His recital of The Raven is interrupted, inevitably, by news of his child wife's death. In 1849 he visits Elmira, then a widow, but his attempt at a reunion fails because she believes he wants to start an ill-tempered magazine with her money. From beginning to end of the last scene, Actor Hull is required to utter a delirious monolog while he heaves and writhes on his deathbed...
...Richard Chichester du Pont, son of vice president Alexis Felix du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. His enthusiasm has been so infectious that his wife is now an expert pilot and his father has posted a $3,000 prize for the first flight from Elmira to within 25 miles of Times Square, another of $500 for the pilot at the meet who flies highest. Two years ago Pilot du Pont missed the $3,000 prize by five miles. Last week, in his new German sail plane, he set a world's record for distance...
...planes had soared a total of 321 hours. 1,178 miles in 274 flights. U. S. champion was Chester Decker (295 points). Second with 288 was Richard du Pont, last year's champion, who was last week appointed chairman of a committee to arrange an international meet at Elmira next year with $10,000 in prizes...