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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Elizabeth Brite Shevlin of Manhattan, daughter of the late famed Yale Footballer Thomas L. Shevlin; to Paul Morton Smith, son of the present Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin, wife of the famed Manhattan banker; in Greenwich, Conn., secretly last April, when Mr. Smith was a Yale undergraduate...
Edith Longfellow died in 1915 as the wife of able Boston Lawyer Richard Henry Dana, son of Author Richard Henry Dana (Two Years Before the Mast). Annie (Allegra) Longfellow remains, is the wife of Boston Lawyer Joseph G. Thorp...
...Manhattan etc. is not to be confused with Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr. who lives in Philadelphia still, guarding jealously the Biddle fame and fortune, both of which were founded by Nicholas Biddle just after the Revolutionary War. Biddle Sr. was once a better boxer than his son; he allowed his proficiency to lead him to a pursuit which he called Athletic Christianity and which he preached around the world...
...then a clubman much like his son at present, that the older Anthony visited Dr. Floyd Tomkins, a Philadelphia divine, and said "I have seen the Great Light. . . ." He was given a Bible class of three men. Soon he inaugurated his own movement, designed to unite the ideas of Sport and of God. In 1912 he held a formal meeting at his Philadelphia house to organize formally "Athletic Christianity," so that any Bible class in the country could become a Drexel Biddle Bible Class and utilize his scheme for keeping young persons near to the churches...
...parody Crook Cinema which, in various disguises, has constituted nearly half of the recent output of Hollywood. Lots of crooks, including May McAvoy, a lady crook, sometimes dumb, sometimes stabbing into speech, come through Florida fog to a deserted houseboat on which the mother of a millionaire's son has left a pearl necklace worth $200,000 in cinema money. Boob detectives supply most of the comedy and Conrad Nagel's voice the best vocal sequences of a gentle melodrama which is parody only by afterthought...