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...Engaged. Vera, Countess of Cathcart, fortyish, divorced wife of the late George Cathcart, 5th Earl of Cathcart, previously Vera Fraser of Cape Town, later the widow of Capt. de Grey Warter of the 4th Dragoon Guards; and Sir Rowland Frederic William Hodge, seventyish; famed shipbuilder; in London, a week after the marriage of Lady Cathcart's son Henry de Grey Warter to Mabel Bowers Rean of British vaudeville. In 1926 Lady Cathcart was temporarily refused entry to the U. S. in a famed case of "moral turpitude." Three years prior she had gone to Cape Town with the Earl...
...whom he calls "May" was a diamond pendant. No one could say whether she wore it or not at the Court, so encrusted was she with ropes, pendants and brooches of diamonds. Of the 14 U. S. citizenesses presented Miss Carolyn Farrar Apperson Leech of Louisville, Ky. and Miss Vera Bloom of New York most engaged British newsfolk. They learned from southern friends of Miss Leech that "she founded the international observance of Armistice Day." Miss Bloom, they discovered, is a daughter of the man who built the Midway Plaisance at Chicago's World's Fair, Congressman...
...other members of the cast are not so good. Vera Allen as Lady Anne did well in an exceedingly difficult part, but most of the others were nothing more than satisfactory. In spite of the exceptional amount of cutting in her part that was necessary to make the play fit into the modern stage time limits, she was able to convey something of an actual character to the part she played. She was won over by Richard not so much by her lack of insight, as by his extreme cleverness. She left the impression that she was a woman...
...part of Shylock the rest of the cast did not render sufficient support to keep this production from becoming mediocre. The sets were by far the worst that have been' shown thus far. Bassanio, played by Hart Jenks gave the most satisfactory characterization excepting that of Mr. Leiber. Vera Allen did fairly well as Portia although she gave the "Quality of Mercy" in an attitude which suggested that she was trying to count the seats in the extreme rear of the balcony. Although the role of the Merchant was dwarfed more than usual, John Burke made the best...
...upon which Professor Kennelly is regarded as an authority. Before he became the principal electrical assistant to Edison. Professor Kennelly was chief electrician of a cable repairing steamer and senior ship's electrician of the Eastern Telegraph Cable Company. He was the engineer in charge of laying the Vera Cruz-Frontera-Compeche cables for the Mexican government...