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High priestess of the Set was supposed to be Virginia-born Lady Astor, nee Nancy Langhorne, the mistress of Cliveden and M. P. for Plymouth. Last week in Saturday Evening Post "Priestess" Nancy indignantly denounced all Cliveden Set stories. Lord & Lady Astor put in their first disclaimers last spring; he to the London Times, she to the Daily Herald. Now she gives full tongue. "Cliveden Set! There is no such thing! It is a fantastic invention. It has no existence. It never did exist." After that heated beginning Cliveden's mistress proceeded sarcastically to list those who really were...
...Other eleven by the doctor's reckoning: Princess Etienne du Beaumont, Mme Arturo Lopez Perez, Princess Karam of Kapurthala, Lady Charles Cavendish (nee Adele Astaire), Princess Guy de Faucigny-Lucinge, Mrs. Harrison Williams, Mme Jean Ralli, Countess Khuen Hedervary, Comtesse de Montgomery, Mme Andre Dubonnet, Duchess de Chaulnes...
Norma Terris, playing the tavern girl, owns the show by virtue of her singing and her extremely attractive manner in the part. This wench of low estate, nee Eliza Bowen of Providence, Rhode Island, believes a woman can achieve anything she wishes if only she marry the right man. Successively she become an actress, the wife of a prominent American merchant, Stephan Jumel, and finally Mrs. Aaron Burr; throughout all this she keeps a rabid fan of Napoleon on her mind and in her heart...
First and foremost is the question of finding a new spinning back, key man of the Harlow offense. Vernon Struck will be there, fresh from experience in the All-Star game, in which he and guard Joe Nee, also from the class of 1938, were chosen to participate. But Struck cannot be used again; he will be in a backfield coaching capacity...
...exists also in the guard ranks, with the graduation of Allen, Nee and Klein. Question-marks are Chief Boston, out of spring practice due to illness and an appendix operation, center Tim Russell, injured practically all of last season, and Torby MacDonald, sensational wingback, who took the place of the injured Bob Stuart last year, but who has been harassed by leg-trouble since...