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...Author. Edith Wharton (nee Jones) is a New Yorker by birth and a cosmopolitan by inclination. She was born in 1862 and has been in the literary limelight for almost 25 years (her first book, The Greater Inclination, was published in 1899). Most of her novels, which include The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, The Glimpses of the Moon, deal with the so-called upper classes at home or abroad, but her masterpiece, Ethan Frome, is a grim little tragedy of character laid in a New England village. For a number of years she has resided in France...
...result of the crash of the Fleet Wing (TIME, July 30), which brought death to a prominent New Yorker, passenger service on the New York-Newport Air Service (TIME, July 9), was announced discontinued. The company's two undamaged planes will carry mail and newspapers between the two points. The passenger service was started June 27, and the Fleet Wing had safely covered 20,000 miles before her mishap...
James J. Van Alen, "American Prince of Wales," noted Rhode Islander and prominent New Yorker, died at the age of 77 in a hospital near London, following a two months' illness. He left the United States permanently after the declaration of prohibition...
...Lord and Anna Christie are at the Strand. E. U. R. and its robots persist at the St. Martin's. The British edition of the Music Box Revue at the Palace, So This Is London! at the Prince of Wales, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, Partners Again, Secrets, a New Yorker could almost spend every night of a week in London seeing plays he had already seen in America, Though why he should is, of course, quite another matter. And then there is From Dover Street to Dixie at the; Pavilion, a new revue, featuring in its second section Florence Mills...
...Prix de Rome for painting was awarded to Francis Scott Bradford, 25, well-dressed, well-fed New Yorker...