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...complete sets of jeweled cuff links, studs, tie pins, fobs, watch chains, etc. A railroad man, he enjoyed blazoning the fact by wearing what became one of his most famed diamond arrangements- the Transportation Set. The diamonds of the Transportation Set have long been dispersed but last week Black, Starr & Frost -Gorham, oldtime Manhattan jewelers, put on exhibition the platinum settings from which the stones glittered in the days when they were making newspaper copy and table conversation throughout the land...
Lady Jane Kingdom (Frances Starr) runs her gardens, chickens and doddering professorial husband satisfactorily, but soon after the curtain rises begins to have trouble with her children. Her daughter Liza (Lila Lee, oldtime cinemactress trying for a legitimate comeback) is a bobbed-haired nymphomaniac consorting with a London gossip writer who carries cocaine and an automatic. And Daughter-in-law Sybil (Frieda Inescort) thinks she is understood only by a vain popular novelist. Shrewd Lady Jane puts Sybil and the novelist in adjoining bedrooms outside which a nightingale is singing. As Lady Jane expected, they take advantage of propinquity...
...husband John Clayne . (Colin Clive). It is an hour after their wedding, on a rainy September afternoon. Stella and John are standing under a leaky marquee. Laughing together, they get into their car to go away. The car skids into a lake which fussy old Mrs. Surrege (Frances Starr) has had built beyond the garden. John Clayne is fished out of the lake dead...
Died. Frederick Starr, 74, famed anthropologist, authority on U.S. and Japanese aborigines, longtime (1895-1923) University of Chicago professor; of bronchial pneumonia; in Tokyo. An eccentric bachelor who hated women and telephones, he made news when he: took a group of Japan's hairy Ainus to the St. Louis Exposition in 1904; introduced marihuana (dope) cigarets to his Chicago students...
Married. Louis Untermeyer, 47, writer; and Esther Antin, Toledo's first woman lawyer; in Manhattan. In 1928 Poet Untermeyer, after divorcing his second wife, remarried his first wife, Poetess Jean Starr Untermeyer, '"because," said he, "I usually love her." Their redivorce was revealed in July...