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Married. Gwendolin Marshall Field, granddaughter and heiress of the late Marshall Field of Chicago, to Archibald Charles Edmondstone, son of Sir Archibald Edmonstone, in London. Earl Beatty, First Lord of the Admiralty, gave the bride away, in the absence of her brother, who is ill. The groom's father presented the couple with the ancient castle of Duntreath in Stirlingshire, near Glasgow...
Miss Adelyn Bushnell alternately charmed in the roles of Mary Brennan, a crook, and Margaret Waring, an, orphan heiress. She was especially good as the crook impersonating the heiress, but her performance would have been better had she differentiated the two parts...
...pieces which bid fair to be revived as long as we continue to have the theatre (and a long time may it be!). Founded on one of the great comedy situations which have delighted mankind since the beginning of the world--mistaken identities--Goldsmith's old story of the heiress who wins, as a barmaid, the love of a youth too bashful to court her in her proper surroundings possesses a curious perennial freshness. Granted that some of the stage devices seem a bit clumsy and outworn to the present generation of theatre-goers, the underlying humor of the play...
There is one case on record, however, where marriage would have proved decidedly less profitable than single blessedness. An American heiress was about to wed as English nobleman when she bethought herself of consulting the tax-collector. From him she learned that the tax to which she was subject as the wife of a foreigner plus that of the English government as a citizen, totaled more than her entire income. Result; no marriage. Thus Uncle Sam is not exclusively a match-maker; he is however, taking very much of a hand in the matrimonial relations of his nephews and nieces...
...well-balanced cast includes Matt Moore, George Parsons and Gladys Leslie, who aid in the characterization of a piece dependent on human nature and satirical effect for its situations. On the same bill is Bebe Daniels in "Ducks and Drakes", wherein she plays the role of an unconventional young heiress whose chief delight is calling telephone numbers at random and flirting with unknown male voices at the other end of the wire. This photoplay has been announced for a forthcoming production on the stage...