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...Chosen (written & produced by Nora Lawlor) mainly concerns five novice nuns. During the course of three acts, one succumbs to ill health, one goes out of her mind, one gets killed in a storm and two decide that the cloistered life is not for them. Except in the U. S. S. R., a play about a religious institution which does not stultify its material with sanctimoniousness stands a good chance of being suppressed. Few Are Chosen will never be suppressed...
Whizzing through little Rockville, Conn., with a companion, a maid, and a chauffeur, Nora lasigi Bullitt, pretty debutante daughter of onetime (1912-13) U. S. Solicitor-General William Marshall Builitt, was brought up short by a traffic policeman, led off to police court. There the policeman announced that she had been passing intersections at 65 m.p.h. In the empty courtroom Miss Bullitt and friend puffed cigarets, ground the butts into the floor, kept on puffing and grinding until the judge came. Quickly the judge hammered out a fine of $10 plus $11.31 costs. "And now, Miss Bullitt," said he, offering...
...huge man with a bald head, an eagle beak and a Gladstone collar, has admitted that his Gibson Girl was a composite picture of the three famed Langhorne sisters of Virginia. Sister Irene, Artist Gibson married. Sister Nancy married Lord Astor, now sits in the House of Commons. Sister Nora is the present Mrs. "Lefty" Flynn. The Gibson Man wearing the stiff straw hat and a high collar up to his bulbous chin was a fairly accurate portrait of Richard Harding Davis...
...Nora Bayes (born Dora Goldberg), a peerless songster* had four other husbands besides Jack Norworth (No. 2): Otto Gressing (No. 1), Harry Clarke (No. 3), Arthur Gordoni (No. 4), Benjamin Lester Friedland (No. 5). She died insolvent in 1928. still lies unburied in a common receiving vault in Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx...
...Some of the songs introduced or featured by Nora Bayes: "Down Where the Wurtzburger Flows," "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" "Take Me Out to the Ball-Game," "When It's Apple-Blossom Time in Normandie," "Come Along, My Mandy," "The Broken Doll," "Please Keep Out of My Dreams," "Over There," "Mammy's Little Coal Black Rose," "Japanese Sandman...