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Ruth McConnell, 20, of Rochester, N. Y., took train for San Francisco one day last week. Three days later, David O. Meeker, medical student, also of Rochester, appeared at the Omaha, Neb., airport and hired a plane to take him to San Francisco. Word got around that Mr. Meeker was chasing Miss McConnell; the press played up the affair as if it were some sort of Derby. Miss McConnell won, arriving in San Francisco a day ahead of Mr. Meeker. It developed that Miss McConnell had been in a nervous condition and that Mr. Meeker, a friend of her family...
...Ezra Meeker, Oregon pioneer, who years ago crossed this continent with an ox cart, who recently recrossed it in an airplane...
...plot sufficiently. "Wear Your Sunday Smile" and the title song "Judy", pleasant and innocuous, are the songs sold at the door. As for the cast, Patti Harrold, dainty and unstudied, makes a charming heroine; Robert Armstrong, obviously out of place in musical comedy, a not-so-good hero. George Meeker, Edward Allen, and Frank Beaston, as Tom, Dick, and Harry, furnish the bulk of the humor, which depends more on their own antics than the rather weak book. Mr. Beaston especially stands...
Born. To Mr. and Mrs. William P. Meeker (Kitty Owen Meeker, William Jennings Bryan's eldest granddaughter), a daughter; at Miami...
Engaged. Miss Ruth Bryan Owen, 18, granddaughter of William Jennings Bryan, to William Meeker, 19, of Baltimore...