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Franca Somigli was Marian Bruce Clarke of Manhattan, whose Park Avenue aunt staked her to study in Italy. As Franca Somigli she sang three years at the Scala in Milan. In Chicago she had big dramatic roles in Andrea Chenier and Il Trovatore, both ill-suited to her delicate lyric voice. After the Trovatore criticisms, she was so cross that friends had to stop her from packing her bags and leaving Chicago...
...Lawn Tennis Association, William O'Brien is Public Enemy No. 1. For the past four years U.S.L.T.A. has watched Mr. O'Brien woo away from amateurism the cream of the nation's tennis crop. Last year his prize catch was Ellsworth Vines. With Vines, William Tilden, Bruce Barnes and Vincent Richards, Promoter O'Brien played 75 towns and cities, taught the public to like professional tennis exhibitions, grossed $243,000 from 352,412 customers. But no theatrical producer puts on the same thing year after year. Casting about for a new act to liven...
...very day Congas sold down to $22.37½ per share, the great New York City utility was formally celebrating its 50th anniversary. The exercises were far from gay. President George Bruce Cortelyou, who at one time or another served Roosevelt I as Secretary of Commerce & Labor, Secretary of the Treasury and Postmaster General, was moved to wonder whether, for Consolidated Gas, the first 50 years were really the hardest...
Eloped. Bertha Cantacuzene Smith, daughter of Prince Michael Cantacuzene, great granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant, divorced wife of Bruce Smith of Louisville, Ky.; and William Durrell Siebern of Cincinnati; to Jefiersonville, Ind., shortly after her engagement was announced to Donald Mackintosh, Sarasota, Fla. bank clerk. Said her mother, divorced last month from Prince Michael, of the bridegroom: "A very nice...
Engaged. Bertha Cantacuzene Smith, daughter of Prince Michael Cantacuzene, great granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant, divorced wife of Bruce Smith of Louisville, Ky.; and Donald Mackintosh, Sarasota, Fla. banker...