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...Chicago performance of Scarlet Sister Mary a member of the mob scene was John Drew ("Jacky") Colt, 17, son of the play's leading actress, Ethel Barrymore, nephew of Actors John and Lionel Barrymore, grandnephew of famed John Drew. Stagestruck, he had quit school. Following a three-generation tradition in the Barrymore family regarding debuts, he carried onto the stage a red apple sent by his Uncle John...
Married. William Larimer Mellon Jr., 20, Pittsburgh socialite, grandnephew of Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon; and Grace Rowley, 19, of Pittsburgh; secretly, a year ago; in Wellsburg, W. Va. They planned to go through a second ceremony last week, changed their minds, announced they were already married. Friends & relations (among them Secretary Mellon) who had sent gifts, found that there was no wedding to attend, that bride & groom had gone honeymooning...
Three hundred years ago Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein made a big name for his fighting in the Thirty Years' War (later immortalized by Poet Johann Friedrich von Schiller). Not many years ago in Chicago, Wallenstein's fifth-grandnephew, Alfred, last in the male line of Wallensteins, went shopping with his father to buy a bicycle. It had been offered as a reward for the attainment of certain grades in school. The grades were easily earned but the right bicycle was hard to find. Father & son passed a music store with a shiny 'cello in the window...
Killed. Marcellus Hartley Dodge Jr., graduate of Princeton last June, son of the board chairman of Remington Arms Co., great-grandson of its founder Marcellus Hartley, grandnephew of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; when a motor which he was driving struck a tree on the Bayonne- Bordeaux road in France where Dodge had been sent by his mother for diversion from aviation, which she considered a dangerous hobby...
...last week when Prestcoke Corp. of Chicago formally opened its first plant. In at one end went bituminous coal, out at the other came shiny briquets, while coal dealers and the Press watched and listened to the high hopes of the promoters: Clarence S. Lomax, inventor; Charles Edison Poyer, grandnephew of Thomas Alva Edison; Thomas Hitchcock Jr., international polo captain. The infant company asserts it has found the long-sought low-temperature distillation process for converting bituminous into a smokeless, slow-burning fuel which will undersell retail anthracite. If the process really works commercially, it may prove...