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Died. Mrs. Harriet Converse Moody, famed restaurateur, relict of the late Poet-Playwright WilliamVaughn Moody; of bronchial asthma; in Chicago. While she was a young high school teacher, her culinary triumphs came to the attention of Harry Gordon Selfridge, then manager of Marshall Field & Co., who put her in charge of the store's restaurant. After her reputation spread, she founded her own catering firm, directed other restaurants. But as hostess in her own home Mrs. Moody was most famed. Even after her husband died in 1910, such writers as John Masefield, Rabindranath Tagore, Padraic Colum, James Stephens continued...
John Drinkwater, English poet-playwright (Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln), arrived in the U. S. last week to see the opening of his latest play and first comedy, Bird in Hand, on Broadway (see p. 16). Waylaid by ship-news reporters, Author Drinkwater said: 1) That he would fight Prohibition if it threatened England; 2) That the U. S. has no recent or contemporary figure dramatically as large as Lee or Lincoln, although "Woodrow Wilson might make a good play;" 3) That talking cinema shows are not worth talking about...
...Caillaux, jaunty debt negotiator, landed at Havre, he twirled his cane in airy greeting to noted Poet-Playwright Maurice Rostand, who was waiting on the pier. Pressed for a statement, he declared: "We parted from the American delegates on the most cordial and sympathetic terms. . . . We shall resume our negotiations in good time." Implored to say something serious he took refuge in the ultimate cliché: "All I can say is that American women are charming...
...Scandinavians Prince William, younger son of King Gustavus of Sweden, is known as an inquiring traveler, whose wanderings almost equal those of Edward of Wales, and as a poet-playwright of some note...
Married. John Drinkwater, famed British poet-playwright, to Miss Daisy Kennedy, violinist; in London. Mr. Drinkwater was divorced by his first wife on statutory grounds (TIME...