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...octoroon from Memphis, Tenn., identified the body in the morgue. She, Mrs. Lillian Werner Phal, legally married to Siki in 1924, bound up her head in a wet towel and told reporters about her husband. She did not dwell upon his recent carousals-that he was arrested five months ago for attempting to kill a policeman with a knife; that the U. S. Government has for some time been trying anxiously to deport him, and the French Government as anxiously refusing to take him back. Instead, she spoke with affection of his domestic qualities...
...BRIGHAM YOUNG-M. R. Werner-Harcourt, Brace...
...Author. Maurice R. Werner, newspaper reporter of Greenwich Vil- lage, Manhattan, came to fame in 1923 as the biographer of P. T. Barnum, circus man (who once offered Brigham Young $200,000 a year to exhibit himself in a sideshow). Hearing his work applauded, Mr. Werner dropped reporting, is now at work on a life...
Married. Battling Siki, 23, famed Senegalese pugilist, to Miss Lillian Werner, 30, octoroon, of Memphis, Tenn.; in Manhattan...
...niece of Pennsylvania's famed Governor (see Page 5), appearing on the professional stage for the first time, gave to the part of the Nun a vibrant grace, a magnetic personality that made her quite the cynosure of the beholders. Lady Diana Manners was supremely beautiful as the Madonna, Werner Krauss magnificent as the crippled piper, Rudolph Schildkraut peculiarly powerful in the portrayal of several roles...