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Fire destroyed "Bay Tree House" and about 150 rare Holland bay trees, valued at $30,000, on the Roslyn, L. I. estate of Clarence Hungerford Mackay, threatened a nearby greenhouse containing one of the most valuable orchid collections in the world...
...automobile crash near her husband's Roslyn, L. I., estate caused when her chauffeur swerved to avoid another car, Mrs. Clarence H- Mackay, the former Anna Case, opera singer, was cut on the face and hand, severely bruised...
...Roslyn Polo Team (Raymond Christy Firestone, Seymour H. Knox, Harold E. Talbott Jr., William H. Post II): the Junior Polo Championship, beating the Aiken Knights 9 to 6 in the final at Rumson...
Married. Clarence Hungerford Mackay, 57, president of Postal Telegraph Cable Co., director of Metropolitan Opera Company; and Anna Case, 42, onetime Metropolitan Opera and concert soprano, daughter of a South Branch, N. J. blacksmith; in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Roslyn, L. I., not far from Mr. Mackay's $6,000,000 estate "Harbor Hill." Among those witnessing the ceremony were the groom's daughter Ellin and her husband, songwriter Irving Berlin, whom Mr. Mackay had never before countenanced. After the ceremony bride & groom cruised away on his yacht Manchonoch...
...Evanston, Ill., A. J. Robinson was released from custody when he promised no more to threaten death to Professor Ernest Laurer of Northwestern University. Declared Robinson: "My daughter, Roslyn, attended Professor Laurer's class in history five years ago. He taught her the theory of evolution. . . . She began to brood over it and that led to a nervous breakdown and death. I blame him for her death...