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House Calls. Last month Boehme, now 45, was back in court again, charged with the same crime under similar circumstances. Only the support ing characters had changed. Erstwhile Sister-in-Law Mary was now Boehme's wife and, until she was ejected from the courtroom by Judge Hardyn Soule for an intemperate outburst, seldom let go of her husband's hand or lost her demurely trusting smile. The mistress in this case was Wanda Ostby, 30, a comely housewife from nearby Bremer ton, whose testimony seemed genuine despite a tigerskin coat that plainly was not. Wanda had been...
Died. Kathleen Norris, 85, grandmother of the American sentimental novel (Passion Flower, Heartbroken Melody), widow of Author Charles G. Norris (Salt) and sister-in-law of the late social novelist Frank Norris (McTeague), a feminist and pacifist who in nearly half a century turned out 81 relentlessly wholesome books (10,000,000 copies sold), plus reportage and innumerable short stories for women's magazines; following a stroke; in San Francisco. "I write," she once said, "for people with simple needs, like myself," and her books played endless variations on a single theme: "Get a girl in all kinds...
...often the case with Victorian politicians, Dilke's private life was rather less exemplary than his public activity. He had a fatal attraction to the tigress type, and during his 20s and 30s he apparently conducted affairs with three or four appallingly predatory women-among them his sister-in-law's mother...
French Vice. The plot was sprung by his sister-in-law's sister, a Mrs. Donald Crawford, who suddenly informed her husband that she had been "ruined" by Sir Charles. What's more, she told him that Sir Charles had taught her "every French vice" and had persuaded her to play three-in-a-bed with himself and his housemaid. Mr. Crawford thereupon decided to sue his wife for divorce and to name Sir Charles as corespondent. Dilke duly protested that he had never laid a finger on Mrs. Crawford, but he knew that the prudish Victorian public...
...timely rewriting made the punch lines only more telling. Not that the audience was unaware that up there on stage "Miriam" was being played by Barry Goldwater's sister Carolyn (Mrs. Bernard Erskine), and the bitchy "Sylvia" by Barry's sister-in-law Sally (Mrs. Robert Goldwater). All of which did not dim the drama of the Act II hair-pulling scene between the two. And when Miriam looked at her arm, into which Sylvia had just sunk her teeth, and cried out, "My God! I need a rabies shot," it brought down the house. As for Sally...