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Lawyer Burkan, born 55 years ago in Rumania, can become as impassioned over songs and songwriters as he was when he lately pleaded for the maternal rights of Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt. Because Victor Herbert was his friend, the ASCAP cause became so dear to his heart that he served it for seven years (1914-21) without pay. Competition between songs is absurd, according to ASCAP and its shrewdly sentimental lawyer. "A person desiring to hear 'Mother Machree,' " says Mr. Burkan, "is not satisfied with and will not accept a rendition of 'A Kiss in the Dark...
...Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's racehorse Discovery, which last year finished behind Cavalcade in four races: the Brooklyn Handicap, in world-record time for the distance (1 ⅛ mi.) of 1,148.2, with King Saxon second and Omaha third; at Aqueduct Racetrack, Long Island...
Engaged. George Vanderbilt, 20, co-heir to the $30,000,000 estate left by his father, the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Lusitania victim; and Lucille Parsons, West Orange, N. J. socialite. From an African trip last spring Heir Vanderbilt brought back 5,000 snakes, 15,000 bugs, 10,000 birds, 15,000 ft. of cinema...
...these political duels produced little gore last week, Hungarian connoisseurs of sabre work were edified by one duel of pure animal rage. Heavy cavalry sabres at dawn were wanted by Count Balint Szechenyi, kinsman of Hungary's Minister at London, Count Laszlo Szechenyi who is husband to Gladys Vanderbilt. Count Balint Szechenyi had heard something his wife's first husband, a Jewish businessman named Victor Stein, had said about her. Victor Stein was mad too. On the field of honor the two hurled themselves at one another three times. Stein severely battered the Count's head...
Died. Mrs. Emily Davies Vanderbilt Thayer Whitfield, thirtyish, successively divorced from William H. Vanderbilt and Producer Sigourney Thayer, about to divorce Author Raoul Whitneld; by her own hand (revolver); at Dead Horse Ranch, near Las Vegas...