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Notable among the platoon of British subjects whom King George's annual New Year's Honors last week upped in the world was Actress Olga Nethersole, now 65, who was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire...
...theatre-goers, if not to Britons, Olga Nethersole is famed as a pre-War figure of Wickedness-on-the-Stage for her work in Sapho, a play she picked in 1900 because she thought it was romantic and beautiful for a love-sick bumpkin to carry a lush, mournful harlot upstairs to bed (see cut). The U. S. Press, on the other hand, decided it was shameless, stupid or funny. Miss Nethersole, a onetime governess, was tried in Manhattan on a charge of committing a public nuisance, was easily acquitted. Comedians Weber & Fields put on a burlesque of the stair...
...love little Olga...
Died. H. R. H. Princess Victoria Alexandra Olga Mary, 67, sister of George V; of stomach hemorrhage; at Coppins, Iver, Buckinghamshire. Princess Victoria's retired life and spinsterhood were popularly attributed to an early love affair with a man whom her rank forbade her to marry...
...three most worthy applicants for whom the Schubert Memorial will arrange public engagements. Preliminary heats had been held in 36 regional districts. For the Philadelphia finals there were eight nervous survivors. The three big winners: Violinist Joseph Knitzer, 22, from Manhattan; Pianist Rosalyn Tureck, a pupil of Olga Samaroff; Contralto Margaret Harshaw, 23, a stenographer for Bell Telephone Co. in Philadelphia...