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Ellen Terry was born, as it were, between an exit and a curtain call, while her mother and father were playing in Coventry. At eight she made her debut as Mamillius in The Winter's Tale, a performance witnessed with apparent pleasure by Queen Victoria. When Ellen Terry was twice as old she married the then famed Painter Watts. He divorced her when she had borne two children to Charles Wardell whom she later married. After that Ellen Terry went into retirement whence she was rescued by Charles Reade. From this time, her stage career grew to its zenith...
Engaged. Lord David George Brownlow Cecil Burghley, 23, famed hurdler, member of the British Olympic track team this year, descendant of the first Baron Burghley, Queen Elizabeth's Secretary of State; to Lady Mary Montagu-Douglas-Scott, sportswoman, inheritor of a 400-year-old title; of London...
Latest of the sorrows of Dowager Queen Sophie is the desertion of her daughter, Princess Helen (mother of Baby King...
When the Rumanian Government of Prime Minister Vintila Bratiano had had two days, last week, in which to dissuade Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania from a second U. S. tour, the Famed Grandmama announced, through a lady-in-waiting, that: "Certain premature reports of Her Majesty's plans are totally unfounded...
Louis W. Hill Jr., grandson of railroad pioneer, James J. Hill, and nephew of Queen Marie's entertainer, Sam Hill, was promoted to trainmaster of the Butte division of his father's Great Northern Railroad...