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Because her work as a designer of women's underclothes takes all her time, Tennist Helen Wills Moody announced that she would not play in the National Singles Championship at Forest Hills, L. I. next month. Thus she avoided another battle in her feud with Tennist Helen Hull Jacobs. Said Mrs. Moody: "I am not giving up tennis. But in the future I shall play only in tournaments that fit in well with my work." Up for auction in Denver came the last tawdry possessions of Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt ("Baby") Doe Tabor, who was frozen to death last year...
...actor to play opposite Cinemactress Andrea Leeds in Producer Sam Goldwyn's forthcoming picture Come and Get It. For a typical sequence he chose one in which the actor kissed Cinemactress Leeds eight times. In order to give each of three prospects-John Payne, Bob Lowrey and Tennist Frank Shields-a fair chance, he had each do the sequence 20 or more times. The tests took more than three hours each. At the end of the day a script clerk announced that Cinemactress Leeds had been kissed 467 times...
...great California fortune came to San Francisco's late Senator James Duval Phelan when he was 21. When he died in 1930, aged 69, he left $20,000 to Tennist Helen Wills Moody, $20,000 to Author Gertrude Atherton, scores of other bequests to natives whose brain or brawn had reflected credit on his beloved state.* Last week another of the Senator's benefactions posthumously bore fruit when the San Francisco Art Association awarded the first $2,000 Phelan Traveling Scholarship to Helen Elizabeth Phillips, a young sculptor who in all her 23 years has never been outside...
...Tennist Helen Wills Moody spent a week-end in Stockbridge, attended no Group meetings. But one day last week a private railway car rolled into a siding and out popped Clara Bryant Ford, self-effacing wife of Henry Ford. Far from exploited by the Groups, who made clear that she was not identified with their movement, Mrs. Ford quietly attended meetings, lunched with Dr. Buchman and the most important of his followers, beheld a documentary Group film called Bridge Builders. Two days later she departed, thus ending rumors that her husband was to arrive in the company of Harvey Firestone...
Born Katharine Marjory Ramsay, the Duchess of Atholl, musician and lawn tennist, has been a Member of Parliament since 1923. Among her accomplishments are the organization of the Perthshire District Nurse Associations; the composition, for pianoforte, of Song-Flowers from A Child's Garden of Verses; and the assemblage, at the suggestion of Lord Kitchener, of the world's finest collection of Scottish soldiers' stocking tops. In 1899 Katharine Marjory Ramsay married the Duke of Atholl, chieftain of all the Murrays, colonel-in-chief of the Scottish Horse Scouts, a gallant soldier and the owner...