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FRANCOIS VILLON, A Documented Survey- D. B. Wyndham Lewis-Coward-McCann, Edwin V. Mitchell ($5.00). Chosen by the Literary Guild for September...
...Elsie Mackay, 34, daughter of a peer, has done daring things since childhood. Unimpressed by her father's millions (Peninsular & Oriental Steamship Co.), she eloped with Capt. Dennis Wyndham (before the War, an actor) and laughed at disinheritance. She went on the stage herself and on the screen, as Poppy Wyndham. Suddenly she had her marriage annuled and returned to her father's home. As suddenly she took up flying, won her pilot's license five years ago, and nourished the determination to be the first woman to fly the Atlantic...
...director of the raid, Major General Sir Borlase Elward Wyndham Childs, appeared personally on the scene. Curtains were drawn, electroliers switched on, and all night the silhouettes of policemen could be observed occasionally upon the blinds as the police ransacked...
Died. Bruce McRae, 60, able actor, nephew of the late actor, Sir Charles Wyndham; nephew of the late playwright, Bronson Howard; father-in-law of Artist Nell Brinkley; of heart disease; at City Island...
Last week the Metropolitan Museum of Art bought John Singer Sargent's large portrait which he called "The Wyndham Sisters," but, since it was gravely named by King Edward VII when he first saw it, "The Three Graces," that remains its common title. The price is supposed to have been nearly $100,000, drawn, from a fund whose name the directors refused to divulge, but very likely the Hearn Fund...