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...soup fog swallowed two other joyriders. Nicholas S. Embiricos, 32, Greek-born director of a London shipping firm, and Mrs. Eleanor Young, 23 (ex-Mrs. Robert Ogden Bacon Jr., ex-Manhattan glamor girl), had taken off from Newport, R.I. in a Fairchild monoplane to fly to New York. At Matunuck, twelve miles down the coast, amateur Pilot Embiricos circled, found a rift in the fog, nosed downward for a landing. As he leveled off, a wave slapped the wings, and the plane crashed in shallow water. Embiricos died at the controls. Carried ashore by lifeguards, Mrs. Young died forty minutes...
Rhode Island's straw hat drama will be partially provided by the Theatre-by-the-Sea at Matunuck and the Casino Theatre at Newport, where Eric Swift's new play Sweet Sorrow will be on the boards next fortnight...