Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mise-en-scene of the picture lends point to later developments which, in another environment, would have been improbably eccentric. Mary Evans marries a polo player named Lonny Borden (Neil Hamilton). This makes Maximilian Carey so unhappy that he takes to drink in earnest. He becomes incompetent to go on directing pictures in which Mary Evans is the star, eventually shoots him self in Mary Evans' home. The unjust scandal of this episode forces her to run away to France, where her husband, bring ing her a new contract, finds...
...women golfers had a good excuse for not winning the British championship a few years ago. They had to play against Joyce Wethered, indisputably the ablest lady player in the world. Since Joyce Wethered has stopped bothering to win ladies' championships, U. S. women have had a chance. The chance seemed better than ever last fortnight when Maureen Orcutt won, with a 151, the medal in the first qualifying rounds ever held before a British Women's amateur championship. Six other members of a U. S. team that had beaten England the week before qualified for match play...
...elimination match rounds are only 18 holes, giving any unknown with one good round in his system a chance to knock over a celebrity. Only three U. S. golfers have ever won it: Walter Travis in 1904; Jess Sweetser in 1926, reeling with fever in a final against a player who did not know how to use a brassie; and Robert Tyre Jones II in 1930, beating down luck with mechanical golf...
...quite capable of being returned to São Maharo, she undertook a lecture at a girls' school near Bristol. She told her story haltingly, miserably. Most of the girls sat back and drowsed at the ''mish's" speech; some ate candy; one, a hockey player named Barbara Gastell, paid attention. She knew the thin little old lady had "guts...
Married. Elbridge Gerry II, polo player, grandson of the late philanthropist and founder of the S. P. C. C., and of the late, great Edward Henry Harriman; and Marjorie Y. Kane, Manhattan socialite; by Rt. Rev. Frank Du Moulin, onetime Bishop Coadjutor of Ohio* in Locust Valley, Long Island...