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...succeeds as an actress. Jane Waddington Wyatt will do so at the expense of the hollow tradition that cheap theatrical boarding houses, one-night stands, hardships in stock companies and the pangs of poverty are indispensable incubators of talent. She was born 21 years ago near smart Tuxedo. N. Y. Her upbringing in horsy Dutchess County was well calculated to make her think of the theatre as a place into which nice people do not venture until the middle of the first act. Her first experience in drama was playing Shylock at fashionable Miss Chapin's School in Manhattan...
...goodwill visit of Premier Laval and Foreign Minister Aristide Briand to Berlin-first official German visit of any French statesmen since French Foreign Minister William Henry Waddington * led a French delegation to the Congress of Berlin in 1878-produced but one concrete result last week: It proved that the Government of German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning is powerful enough to provide an enthusiastic welcome for anybody. On the Frenchmen's arrival nobody was allowed near Friedrich Strasse station but policemen and members of the Reichsbanner, organized into cheering sections. Outside the Hotel Adlon handpicked pedestrians marshalled by detectives...
...Waddington (1826-94), French-born, was the son of a British manufacturer who became a naturalized French citizen...
CHILDREN OF DIVORCE-Owen JOHNSON-Little, Brown ($2.00). Jean Waddington, with tea-brown hair, a meditative conscience and divorced parents, resolves upon the rock of an unhappy childhood that marriage, unless eternal, is a sin. Forthwith, she arouses a consuming love in Ted Larrabee, another child of divorce. She hesitates at marriage because she has millions and she wants Ted to have a career. Her cousin and childhood friend, Kitty Flanders, an effervescent little animal, also a child of divorce, sees an opening and captures Ted. The scene shifts from Long Island to Paris to the Riviera. Jean...
...London, one Prof. Thomas Waddington encountered a snail crawling along a railroad track, crawled after the small creature to observe its habits, was overtaken, after a brief study, by a London train. Both snail and professor were killed...