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Stroke of Luck tells of Etta Wickham-stead who, to escape poverty, took to the stage. As Ruth Ruthven she had an accidental success in a vampire's part. Producers tried to make her repeat in other plays; but, no flapper, Etta always flops. Her poverty returns, consigns her to rooms in Chelsea where she lives with her cousin, Stocky. Etta is straitlaced, but Stocky is voluptuously convex. One day Etta, returning from an employment agency unemployed, snatches a boy out of the path of Mr. Leverton's car. Flowers follow, and Mr. Leverton follows the flowers. Just when Etta...
Married. Peter Llewellyn Davies, London publisher, original of Sir James Matthew Barrie's "Peter Pan;'' and the Honorable Margaret Leslie Hore-Ruthven, one of the famed socialite twin daughters of Lord Ruthven, Lieutenant Governor of the Island of Guernsey; in London. To escape the crowds outside, Author Barrie, the bridegroom's godfather, left the church via furnace room and coal...
Appointed. Major General William Durward Connor, 57; to be superintendent of the U. S. Military Academy; succeeding Major General William Ruthven Smith, who will retire. General Connor sold 1,400 million dollars worth of war supplies to the French Government for 400 millions after the Armistice...
Engaged. Peter ("Pan") Llewellyn Davies, British publisher, nephew of Actor Sir Gerald Du Maurier; and Hon. Margaret Hore-Ruthven, onetime mannequin and dancer with her beauteous twin sister, Hon. Alison Mary. Publisher Davies, orphaned in youth with his four brothers, became a ward of Sir James Matthew Barrie, was the inspiration of Peter...
...once Shirley Wheeler Smith, vice president of the University, took action. It had been customary for the University to pay $3.600 for 917 faculty subscriptions. These Vice President Smith withdrew. President Alexander Grant Ruthven called the newspaper "tasteless and objectionable." Retorted Managing Editor Tobin: "The charge of sensationalism ... we deny. . . . The Daily will not juggle news stories. It is our intention to stand by that statement...