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...Percy Hammond, dramatic critic of the New York Herald Tribune, wrote last week a brusque review of He Understood Women (see THEATRE). Then, late in the night, he got quickly into a waiting automobile, driven by his wife, and set off for the country. A car came up toward Percy Hammond at a great rate of speed, hit his auto and turned it over, causing bruises to Mrs. Hammond and more serious injuries to her husband, so that it would be necessary for him to carry his write arm in a sling. The driver of the car was an obscure...
...Theatrical Newspaper it was last week recorded that a large number of stage comedians were enraged against Percy Hammond because in a recent writing he had implied that clowns on the stage were often smutty. Said Zit's: "The comedians who feel hurt over the notice need not be named . . . dire threats are being heard...
...Spain, on the Bay of Biscay during the last three weeks. King Alfonso XIII went there to join his queen and children. Yachts and warships speckled the harbor. There were receptions in the Magdalena Palace, dances in the clubs, frolicking townsfolk and tourists everywhere. U. S. Ambassador Ogden H. Hammond came down from Madrid. There was a short yacht race; the Queen trounced the King, and the infantes Gonzalo and Jaime finished in the rear; General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marques de Estella, Duque de Ajdur and Dictator of Spain, a spectator, laughed softly on the deck...
...recognized Your Majesty." Nina, tiniest of all the yachts and first to finish in the race from New York to Santander, won the Queen's cup for boats of less than 55 feet waterline length. She had crossed the Atlantic in 24 days. Said her skipper. Paul Hammond: "We carried all the sail we could, but we did not drive the yacht and we shortened sail whenever the weather was heavy...
Soon there hove into sight the schooner yacht Elena, to be pronounced winner of the cup offered by King Alfonso for Class A boats. The small boats left New York June 30, followed eight days later by the Class A entries. Elihu Root Jr., and Paul Hammond were in command of the Nina; Owner William B. Bell of Manhattan commanded the Elena...