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ANNE SULLIVAN MACY: The Story Behind Helen Keller-Nella Braddy-Doubleday, Doran ($3). Helen Keller, the blind deaf-mute who has become a highly educated and intelligent woman, is one of the most famed figures in the world today, but few have ever heard of the miracle-worker who raised Helen Keller from the worse-than-dead. Her name is Anne Sullivan Macy; in this book Authoress Braddy tells her little-known story. Mrs. Macy has lived continuously with Helen Keller for 45 years except for two occasions. Fourteen years older than her lifelong pupil, she was well fitted...
...theatrical celebrity falls into two divisions. By 1925 she had acquired the financial problems which customarily overtake actors who are too fond of their friends to save their money. When she made up her mind to start a hotel in Paris, her closest friend, a Manhattan astrologer named Nella Webb, persuaded her to wait, predicted that she would enjoy "seven fat years" beginning Jan. 17, 1927. On Jan. 17, Director Allan Dwan telephoned Marie Dressier, offered her a role in a picture he was about to make in Florida. Reluctantly-because she suspected that the producers who remembered her would...
Married. Robert E. McMurray, divorced father of divorce-seeking Mrs. Charles Spencer Chaplin; to a Mrs. Nella Benjamin, at Wichita...
Married. For the sixth time, De Wolf Hopper, 67, famed Thespian, to Lillian Glaser, 29, singer, widow of a California dentist; at Hartfod, Conn. Mr. Hopper's five former wives were named respectively Ella, Ida, Edna, Nella, Ella. Edna, still billed in vaudeville as "Edna Wallace Hopper" is now advertising, at 50? and $1.00 a box, "the beauty aids which keep me at my grand old age (51) looking like a girl." In 1881 Comedian Hopper appeared in a confection labeled: One Hundred Wives...
Divorced. (William) De Wolf Hopper, famed comedian, interpreter of Gilbert and Sullivan light operas, reciter of Casey at the Bat, by his fifth wife, Hedda Furey Hopper, actress. She charged misconduct. His other wives were: Ella Gardiner, Ida Mosher, Edna Wallace Hopper, Nella Reardon Bergen. At least three of these charged misconduct, divorced...