People, Oct. 26, 1931
"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:
Ill lay: John McEntee Bowman, 56,
president of Bowman Biltmore Hotels Corp., in Manhattan, following an operation for gallstones; William Henry Meadowcroft, 78, longtime assistant and confidential secretary to the late Thomas Alva Edison (see p. 52), in West Orange, N. J.; Brand Whitlock, 62, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Belgium, in Brussels, of pleurisy; Charles A. Penn, 62, vice president of American Tobacco Co., in Manhattan, of a gall bladder complication contracted at Reidsville, N. C., whence he was removed in a private car with two specialists and nurses; John Rushworth, Earl Jellicoe, 71, commander of the British Fleet at the Battle of Jutland, in Cowes, Isle of Wight, of bronchitis; Cinemactress Patsy Ruth Miller, 26, in Hollywood, of an intestinal disorder contracted in Tahiti; Arthur Hammer" stein, 55, theatrical producer, in Manhattan, of a bladder ailment.
Said Cinemactor Charles Spencer Chaplin in London: "What I should really like above everything else would be to stand for Parliament."
The $1,000,000 suit brought by Muriel Johnston, nightclub entertainer, against Adele Ryan, granddaughter of the late Thomas Fortune Ryan, for alienating the affections of her husband, Robert Johnston, was settled out of court in Manhattan, reputedly for $40,000. After the suit was filed, Johnston was drowned with -several others when their sloop foundered in Long Island Sound.
Fishing from a yacht tender off Los Angeles, Julian Eltinge, female impersonator, struck a 190-lb. marlin swordfish, played it for nearly two hours, finally landed it. In the bottom of the boat the swordfish lashed violently, wounded Actor Eltinge in the abdomen, inflicted cuts upon other members of the party. Actor Eltinge was hurried to a hospital for an operation by Dr. Earl C. O'Donnell, one of his companions, who had been cut on the hand by the swordfish. Afterwards Dr. O'Donnell discovered that he had contracted bloodpoisoning.
Asa Keyes, former district attorney of Los Angeles County, was released from San Quentin prison after serving 19 months of a one-to-14 year term. He was convicted of conspiracy to receive a bribe in connection with Julian Petroleum Corp. stock fraud prosecution. Home again in Los Angeles he announced a friend had given him a job selling Fords.
Frederick S. Moody Jr., husband of Tennis Champion Helen Wills Moody,
sailed from Manhattan on the S. S. President Coolidge on her maiden voyage, in charge of the shipboard branch office of William Cavalier & Co., brokers. At San Francisco Mrs. Moody will board the ship, sail to the Orient to play in invitation tournaments.
In Manhattan traffic court Mrs-Archibald B, Roosevelt paid a $2 fine for illegal parking. Afterward, at her request, attendants showed her the office occupied by her father-in-law, the late Theodore Roosevelt, when he was New York City Police Commissioner.
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