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...Romantic Young Lady. The tiny Neighborhood Playhouse hid den in the slums of Grand Street has again put forth one of the true delights of the theatrical season. They have taken a Spanish comedy, translated by Helen and Harley Granville-Barker, produced in London as long ago as 1920, and brought it to America in as feathery and fascinating a manner as the harshest skeptic could desire...
Captain Robert Oldys was another witness. He told of the death of his commanding officer, Major Harley Wheeler, in a crash at Hawaii. Major Wheeler told him a few minutes before his fatal flight that he had been "bawled out" by Colonel Chamberlain, Chief of Staff of the Hawaiian Department, because so many machines had been smashed. Major Wheeler took the air; at 200 feet his engine stopped; instead of trying to save himself, he tried to save the plane. He was burned to a crisp when he was found...
...Harley Street magnificos availed him naught. Not until he bumped into old Buff Thompson did it come back to him that he was grey little Peter Blagden, "Mr. Peter" to family servants and solicitors. When the real Petre (John Kosciuszko Petre, U.S.A.) spurred an action, all the King's legal horses and men balked valiantly and the episode ended happily for nearly every...
Newspaper men have killed his parents in various ways; it is said that the paternal Chaplin died of natural causes and his widow (known to the boards as Lily Harley) went into dressmaking, taught Charles and his brother Sydney to hem flounces; there is still another affecting scene in which Chaplin, a sallow waif in bloomers, is portrayed leading his starved mother to a poorhouse while London gamins revile him for his kindliness. It was owing to this incident, some doters, declare, that his eyes acquired that tragic, haunted cast...
...Earldom of Oxford was first conferred upon the illustrious family of de Vere in 1142. It first fell into abeyance in 1703, upon the death of Aubrey de Vere, the 20th Earl, who died without issue. It was, however, revived by Queen Anne in 1711 in favor of Robert Harley, a great Tory leader of the late 17th and early 18th Centuries, sometime Speaker of the House of Commons and First Lord of the Treasury (position nearly equivalent to the then unknown premiership). In 1853 it again fell into abeyance to be revived now in favor of H. H. Asquith...