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...underprivileged," and 3) reached "the acme of refined cruelty . . . when Mr. Cromwell's valet . . . was compelled to wait several hours . . . because Mr. Cromwell's bedroom was occupied by his successor in his wife's affections." (Members of Parliament roasted playboy Member Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid for playing with Doris in Hawaii during London's blitz.) Cromwell denied the desertion and cruelty charges on which Doris won her Reno case, demanded that the New Jersey courts nullify the divorce. He also recommended that Doris herself disown it as a fraud...
...summer, on their farm at Ringwood, N.J., they built a 250-foot slide from the top of the orchard across the lawn, greased the slide with beeswax, and sailed down it "at great speed and with wild howls of glee." Ambassador Whitelaw Reid and Presidential Candidate Samuel J. Tilden tried it once when "both of them [were] rather well along in years." Says Author Hewitt: "It is a wonder that they were not hurt...
...Well, its titular head is Ogden Reid, son of the late Whitelaw Reid and brother of Lady Jean Templeton Ward. . . . Of Whitelaw Reid, the Encyclopaedia Britannica says: '. . . In 1897 he was special ambassador of the United States on the occasion of Queen Victoria's jubilee; in 1902 he was special ambassador . . . at the coronation of King Edward VII; and in 1905 he became ambassador to Great Britain. . . . ' These salient details . . . may throw light on the question why today the New York Herald Tribune worships everything connected with Britain...
Elsie Ferguson, other-worldly beauty of the silent cinema (Peter Ibbetson, with Wallace Reid), first starred on Broadway in 1909, was set for a Manhattan comeback 13 years after she had retired. She will play a wandering house guest in Beyond the Farthest Star, a play Author Rose Franken describes as plotless. Miss Ferguson...
Concludes Dr. Reid: For good vitamin C values the harvesting of vegetables should not be done before mid-forenoon, say 10 o'clock, after a spell of clear weather; after a cloudy spell, not till late...