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England. A permanent figure, in bronze or marble, will be executed by Paul Bartlett, U. S. sculptor, in Paris, after it is decided whether Sir William is to stand (in full robes, wig, carrying his Commentaries) in Westminster Hall, where he sat so long, or in the Brick Court, where he had his chambers...
...Halle, Germany, the cynosure of a field hockey game between two women's clubs was a handsome, skilful creature who tended goal for the winning side. Play over, this goalkeeper was discovered to be no woman, but a prominent local sportsman dressed up in skirts, wig, etc. The sportsman and the conniving Captain of the offending team were disqualified for a year by authorities...
...adventuress, marries a wealthy man for his money, deserts him and seeks love with a crook. The avenging husband forces them to live together, threatening to expose the woman for bigamy, and then, as propinquity causes them to hate each other, the fight begins. Betty Blythe (in a blonde wig), Mahlon Hamilton and Clive Brook show some very human reactions...
...daughter of a Tammany boss, was determined not to be wife of a Tammany boss. She protested vigorously. Tammany also protested-that it needed Foley. Foley yielded, not to the daughter of a Tammany boss, but to Tammany. The great news was announced. Tammany had found a Prince. The Wig-wam's bonfires were lit. "The King is dead! Long live the King!" That night Mr. Foley was not well. He had an attack of acute indigestion. Next morning he renounced the throne. His doctors said that if he accepted he would be dead within a month...
More recently an eminent justice, surreptitiously doffing his wig, began to pen another story, the story of Johnny and his Magic Vest. But all children did not begin to rejoice. In fact a few of them may now be weeping, for last week the eminent justice, laying aside both wig and pen, accepted a portfolio. It was not an author's portfolio, however, for with it goes a title, the Hon. Curtis Dwight Wilbur, newly appointed Secretary of the Navy (see Page...