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Died. Elisabeth Marbury, 76, New York Democratic National Committee- woman, playwright's agent, author (My Crystal Ball); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A spinster suffraget. she once retorted to the Lucy Stone League: "I've been trying hard for 50 years to change my name without success." She was an anti-Prohibitionist ("all wet"), good friend & backer since 1918 of Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...willing spinster, Ann always wanted to get married but could not find the right man, began to think she never would. In a weak moment she married a likable fellow-charitarian, quickly discovered that he was a windy fake. But she tried to keep things patched up till one evening she met the Right Man: Judge Barney Dolphin, able but not too scrupulous Manhattan jurist, with a Broadway reputation and a wife of his own. They fell in love immediately, and Ann let nothing make any difference. She bore Barney's child, divorced her husband, stood...
Miss Crothers has tried so many combinations of the misunderstood wife, the neglected and frigid husband, and the frustrated spinster that she does not get very much intensity into scenes that should be dramatically poignant. Although it is not the fashion to be aroused or wistful, surely the scene where Caine Woodruff, the publisher's wife finds out that she is in the same room with the woman who has enticed her husband, and the parting scenes are too artificially cool...
...horse doctor like me looks at them and all he can see is that medical science is perfectly useless in 95 out of every 100 cases." Though he has great contempt for most of his neighbors, Doc Bull has found a kindred spirit in Janet Cardmaker, unconventional spinster who is far from being an old maid. She and Doc Bull are suspect, thought to be in league, but neither of them cares a whoop...
Courses offered at any college are not made to aid the doting father in his aspirations for his offspring. A "personality factory" must suffer the fate of "spinster factory." Should we perhaps advocate an institution to teach girls to sit gracefully by the fire--alone and another, to develop charm--for father? Radcliffe News-Daily...