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Louise Dardoxy.
Although 80 per cent of the concert singers in America are women the concert managers are all men. Miss Louise Davidson, of New York City, is said to be the only woman concert manager in the country. "I can do anything a man can do,” said Miss Davidson, and set out to prove it. She is in charge of the American tour of Georgette Leblanc Maeterlinck.
The dismembered body of a woman, found in two suit cases in the Merrimac River, has been idepti- fled as that of Mrs. Alice Walschendorf, 44, mother of four children, who was separated from her husband George, proprietor of a Summer resort. Mrs. Wolschendorf, who went under the name of Wallendon, was in love with another man and is reported to have gone to Dr. David H. :Swope; of Boston, in an effort to have an illegal operation performed. Dr. Swope is said to have refused and to have referred the woman to Dr. William M. Robb, of Boston. The police assert that two suit cases, similar to those in which the body was found, disappeared from Dr. Robb's office. Both the doctors were held, though they deny knowledge of the crime. William F. Bowen, aged real estate dealer, by whom the woman was employed, was ques tioned by the police relative to responsibility for her condition.
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Frank J. Gould, millionaire son of the late Jay Gould, has saked Paris courts to grant an injunction to prevent his divorced wife, Edith Kelly Gould, from using the name "Gould" upon billboards, or in any other way, to advertise her stage. career. Mrs. Gould, when she signed a contract to reappear as a
dancer at the Alhambra, in Paris, said she could not live on the sum allowed her by her divorced husband. She was a prominent dancer on the American stage when she married Frank Gould.
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Ex-Premier David Lloyd George, of Great Britain, who piloted the British ship of state through the World War, sailed on September 29 for his first visit to the United States and Canada. He turned down an offer of more than $100,000 to lecture, but made several speeches while in the country. Mr., Lloyd George was accompanied by his wife, Dame Lloyd George; his daughter and inseparable com- panion, Megan Lloyd George, and his son, together with his secretarial staff.
TUEBUAY NOVEMBER 20 1923.
Breaking a tradition of ancient China by travelling without an entourage, Miss Grace Li, demure daughter of Li Yuan Hung, President of the Chinese Republic, has arrived in Wellesley, accom
panied only by Miss Harriett Chou, and rented a small coom in a small boarding house on a side street. The girls have entered Wellesley College to take a two years' course in political economy, Miss Li
believes in woman suffrage, adding that Chinese girls are no longer
betrothed in infancy. "We are not bossed nowadays,” she added.
She is unmarried, she declared, because she has never seen the man
she wishes to marry.
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More American battleships, once the pride of the fleet, are to be scrapped in accordance with the terms of the Disarmament Treaty The ships at the Mare, Island Navy Yard, near San Francisco, consist of the Georgia, Nebraska, Rhode Island; Frederick and Comfort. The Nebraska and the Georgia are shown here.
Little things like coal strikes will never again affect Iceland; for, despite its cold, the country also has many hot springs. The water is now being put to practical use, hojisewives doing their washing in i while more enterprising citizens are piping the hot water into their homes and securing natural steam heat, The Government is encouraging this means of heating houses, This photograph shows a typical wash day the women dispensing with the copper boilers of warmer countries.
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The prolonged and bitter divorce litigation between' W. E. D. Stokes, New York multi-millionaire hotel owner and sportsman, who a few years ago was the victim of the "shooting show girls,” and his wife, reached a climax when Mrs. Stokes asked for the indictment of a score of persons. She charges they have furnished her husband with false affidavits that she was the "Helen Norcross" who, twelve years Ago, was an inmate of the notorious Everleigh Club, of Chicago. She asks prosecution for perjury and conspiracy. Minnie Everleigh, in Paris, has sworn that Mrs. Stokes was not "Helen Norcross." In his original divorce sult, Stokes named his own son as a co-respondent,
in case but later withdrew the allegation. Mrs. Stokes is his second wife. She was completely exonerated in the original suit, but the trial judge died 2before the papers were signed, and the case must be tried again.
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