Word: sholto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Lord Sholto George Douglas, third son of the late famed fistic arbiter, John Sholto Douglas, eighth marquess of Queensberry; to Mrs. Mendelssohn Pickles, mother of famed Australian airplane test pilot Sydney Pickles...
...Grandson of Sir John Sholto Douglas, eighth Marquess of Queensberry, founder of the Amateur Athletic Club (London) and formulator of the formal rules of fisticuffs. Sir John, too, had domestic difficulties: divorced by his first wife, his second marriage annulled. It was Sir John who publicly denounced Poet Oscar Wilde's homosexual practices; Sir John who arose, at Alfred Lord Tennyson's play, Promise of May, and denounced the "imaginary freethinker" portrayed as "an abominable caricature." Sir John died...
...cast follows: Shadrack J. M. Brown '23 Apley Ewing Stewart Masten Casper Garden E. P. Goodnow '17 Consul Thompson Rogers Thomas London Anthony Hillis J. W. D. Seymour '17 Exlenne Conrad Sallnger '23 Sholto W. L. Smyser '23 Eisle Ewing Miss Dorothy Sands Delphine Ewing Undecided