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...marry her but he never. Just skipped out." Bell's man stood by her. "He was here and they was married a good half-hour before the baby come." Ma had to get the sheriff after Ella's Oscar, but then everything was all right. Laura's baby "come so little ahead of time it wasn't hardly noticeable," but poor Laura married the wrong man. When Lizzie and Carl had a lover's quarrel, Ma straightened it out herself with a shotgun. Evie had a real wedding with all the fixings; but her sisters...
...weaker moment Bisbee became involved in an unfortunate affair with a girl named Rose. Stricken with a guilty conscience, he wrote to the "Friend in Need" column of Laura Brown in street and Smith's "Love Story Magazine," protesting the great fuss made by Rose. He received an uncompromising reply to the effect that "If you've any honor, and a sense of fairness, you certainly ought to marry that poor child Rose. You expect to dance and not pay the piper." Bisbee was disgusted he never even mentioned dancing...
Rose Bampton, a comely, full-voiced contralto from Buffalo, sang Laura in La Gioconda on the company's first Tuesday-night trip to Philadelphia. In Philadelphia Contralto Bampton had many friends to applaud her, to fill her dressing room with flowers. In Philadelphia she studied and often performed with the Curtis Institute of Music and the affiliated Philadelphia Grand Opera Company...
...Chicago's first carillon concert. In the 200-ft. tower of the chapel, Carilloneur Kamiel Lefévere, humped on his bench, was striking with clenched fists the keys of a huge 72-note instrument, the second that John Davison Rockefeller has given in memory of his mother Laura Spelman Rockefeller, who liked bells. The stone tower seemed to shake as the concussions of big bronze bells struck the walls of the stone bell room, tongued back & forth. All together the bells weigh 220 tons; the biggest, 17 tons, is the Great Bourdon, second biggest tuned bell...
...occupation "associated with father''; and Blanchette Ferry Hooker, 23. Vassar graduate, youngest daughter of Elon Huntington Hooker, financier, engineer, electrochemist; in Manhattan. In the Rockefeller-built Riverside Baptist Church, the world's No. 1 nonroyal heir, tall and saturnine, took a Rockefeller-worthy bride, tall, handsome, healthy. Aloft, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller (grandmother) carillon pealed its world's biggest 72 bells. Outside was a mob with news sense, pleased because the bride smiled at large as she walked into the church. Inside were 2,500 Rockefeller & Hooker friends, socialites, bankers, no grandfather, for John Davison Rockefeller, 93, departed for Ormond...