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...President oft-twitted, was rudely chucked under the chin last week by Socialist-Sophist Upton Sinclair of Pasadena, who announced the publication of an allegedly humorous political satire entitled The Spokesman's Secretary: Being the Letters of Mame to Mom. Stenographer Mame reports the antics of -"the greatest Man in the whole wide world" astride an electric "camelephant" (exercise machine) and how she tells him what to tell newsgatherers to tell the people to think. Author Sinclair's announcement betrayed lame borrowings from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, moronese novelette by Author Anita Loos...
...UPTON SINCLAIR...
...gamut of organizations is matched by an equal variety of women leaders-leaders of political causes, such as Maud Wood Park, Belle Sherwin, Mrs. Belmont, Alice Paul; leaders in practical politics, ranging from Ruth McCormick and Harriet Taylor Upton to Congresswomen Kahn, Rogers, Norton, Governesses Ross and Ferguson, who are really not leaders of women's movements at all; leaders of "social" movements such as Edith Rockefeller McCormick; leaders who have distinguished themselves in their own professions, such as Judge Florence Allen, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Jane Addams; women who have approached public life from poverty, from the bourgeoisie...
Singles--B. H. Whitbeck (H) defeated Upton (M), 7-5, 6-1; Hyman Lisker (H) defeated Green (M), 6-3, 6-2; J. H. Appleton (H) defeated Huguley (M), 6-3, 6-2; Robeson Bailey (H) defeated Tower (M), 6-1, 6-3; Orlandino (M) defeated Barnes...
Doubles--B. H. Whitbeck and Ryman Lisker (H) defeated Upton and Green (M), 4-6, 6-2, 8-6; Huguley and Tower (M) defeated C. R. Hamlen and H. L. Cobb...