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...home was at 7 Scott street. He is survived by his wife, who was Mabel Gray Freeman, of Springfield, whom he married June 8, 1887; two daughters, Miss Katherine Thaxter and Mrs. Eliot Hubbard, Jr. (Elizabeth F. Thaxter), and a son, Edmund L. Thaxter...
Remarried. Tom Mix, 52, cinema cowpuncher; and Mabel Hubble Ward, 28, circus aerialist; in Yuma, Ariz. They doubted the legality of their marriage last month in Mexican', Mexico (TIME...
...purpose of the play was to provide as much farcical comedy as possible--and this is the obvious, indeed the only sensible interpretation--then the authors err in exaggerating the fiendishness and small wickedness of the mother, Mabel Dixon Church, who would stoop to any depths to attain her selfish designs. Her machinations insert all too many semi-tragic lapses into the general hilarity for the best enjoyment of the authors' genius for the ridiculous in incident and character...
...only be explained by his book's disarming brilliance and enormous length. The chief gist of the Apes' preoccupations is revealed in the opening scene, where, outside Lady Fredigonde Follett's London mansion, "the policeman could be observed at his usual occupation known as Oh-dear-Mabel!, which consists in a repeated readjustment of the stiff melton trouser-fork, by a simultaneous flexion of both legs.'' What "Oh-dear-Mabel!" is for the policeman, the Artistic Life is for the Apes...
Married. Tom Mix, 52, cinema cowboy; and Mabel Hubble Ward, 28, circus aerialist who last year made 300 one-armed revolutions on a high bar without protecting nets (a world's record); in Mexicali, Mexico...