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...Johnson's Dramatic Interlude The Story. Two rivals aspire for the hand of Rita Kilblaine, nee Majendie, beautiful young widow of an old roué. One of the rivals is Dan Haggerty, he-man from the flannel-shirted West. The other rival is one Captain Daingerfield, who, by way of contrast, is no wizard at business. In fact, his obliging old uncle has settled an allowance of $20,000 a year on him with the express stipulation that he is not to attempt any more business...
...Cabinet. Premier Macdonald, Miss Ishbel Macdonald, hostess of No. 10 Downing Street, John R. Clynes, Lord Privy Seal, and Mrs. Clynes attended a dinner given by the Earl of Granard, King's Master of the Horse, and the Countess of Granard, nee Beatrice Ogden Mills of New York, at which the King and Queen were present. Ramsay sat at the Queen's left hand...
Hanno Buddenbrook. The son of Thomas. He inherits a musical temperament from his mother, nee Gerda Sorenson. He tries to please his father by showing an interest in the business, but is not very convincing at it. One of his days may be "fuller than a lifetime of the earlier Buddenbrooks," but with him the Buddenbrook line expires...
...Duchess of Vendome, nee Princess Henrietta of Belgium, sister of King Albert, addressed to the people of France a public letter inviting them to associate themselves with the people of Belgium in celebrating the golden jubilee of Desire Cardinal Mercier, Archbishop of Malines...
...Author. Edith Wharton (nee Jones) is a New Yorker by birth and a cosmopolitan by inclination. She was born in 1862 and has been in the literary limelight for almost 25 years (her first book, The Greater Inclination, was published in 1899). Most of her novels, which include The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, The Glimpses of the Moon, deal with the so-called upper classes at home or abroad, but her masterpiece, Ethan Frome, is a grim little tragedy of character laid in a New England village. For a number of years she has resided in France...