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YOUNG MR. DISRAELI-Elswyth Thane -Harcourt, Brace...
...novelist could possibly improve on the drama of Disraeli's life exactly as he lived it." Author Elswyth Thane (Mrs. William Beebe) has a neat thesis which demands more than ordinary biographical skill, but readers of Young Mr. Disraeli last week agreed that she had it. Her biography of Disraeli read like a novel, and a good one. Not a full-length life, it ended with her hero's young manhood. Like a good novelist, Author Thane knew when and where to stop...
Married. William Beebe, 50, famed scientist, explorer, author; to Miss Elswyth Ricker ("Elswyth Thane"), 27, novelist; on a yacht off Oyster Bay, L. I. Present were Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. & others. Mr. Beebe was divorced from his first wife, the onetime Mary Blair Rice, in 1913. One week later she married one Robin Niles of Manhattan...
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