Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-03
SOMETHING
ABOUT HER

I A BELLE TITCOMB, the singer
on horseback" has found a pros
- pective husband in Nat Wills,
known professionally as the happy
tramp. According to plans, they are to
be married in New York, June 10. La
Belle is rich in her own right, and will
not have to ask Nat for a couple of
hundred every time she wants a new
lid Neither will Nat have to curry the
horse, for be it known he is the richest
entertainer in vaudeville.
Ever since the newspapers carried
dispatches about the beautifui singer
turning down Grand Duke Boris she
has been considered the greatest catch
in vaudeville, and many, both within
and without the profession, have as
pired to her hand. But when Nat Wills
entered the free-for-al all bets were
off, for in addition to having money
he is not 10 be excelled by any in the
way of good looks and sartorial adorn
ment.
After this season when Nat Wills
appears on a vaudeville program the
act of La Belle Titcomb will also be
found on the same program, as both
have decided not to permit professional
engagements to separate them, even for
a week.
Quen Olga of Greece is the only
woman in the world who holds the
rank of admiral. Queen olga, before
her marriage to Prince William of Den
mark, was Grand Duchess Olga Con-
stantinOva of Russia. Alexander. ia
ther of the present ear Of Russia,
made her a commander of the second
squadron of the Russian navy, and
when Prince William Vas placed on. the
turbulent throne of Greece and as
sumed the title King George I, she still
retained her Russian military title,
and today is recognized as a full
fledged admiral. Her flagship is the
cruiser Admiral Makaroff.
Miss Norma Brown is a beautiful
girl, a musical student in New York,
who has attracted much attention by
risking her life to save a puppy from
drowning. Miss Brown saw a number
of boys throwing a dog into a swim
ming pool. She protested, but the boys
again hurled the dog into the water.
The exhausted animal could not reach
the shore, and the girl, although she
could not swim, jumped in after it.
The water at that point reached only
to her chin, and she was able to get to
SnOfe with tne puppy.
Lorraine Clark, whose home is in
Bridgeport, Conn.,, is now in a Vermont
sanitarium, a nervous wreck, as q re-
suit of womans inhumanity to woman,
Miss Clark may recover, but it will
require time, three years at least, her
physicians say.
The young woman was made the VIC
tim of girl hazers, pupils at the Bridge
Nnvf h frrla e.f.ln nd hnr nf hn
Alpha society. The hazing, it seems,
was a preliminary to Miss Clark's ad-
mission to the sorority. In it's cruel
ties it seems to have followed closely
in the footsteps of the dreaded Harvard
MED. Fac" which fiourished at Cam
bridge half a century ago and which,
in a modernized form, may still be in
existence, for all the university au-
thorities know to the contrary.
Miss Clark was blindfolded and made
to eat macaroni which had been boiled
in soap for half an hour. She was re-
quired to eat three raw oysters, and
after she had done so she was told she
had eaten pollywogs. A cocktail con-
cocted of molasses, vinegar, salt, pep
per and white of an egg followed.
Then came a dose of milk and sugar,
forced upon her through nursing bot
tie. Sealing wax, melted by a candle,
was dropped upon the arm of the vic
Tim, while a redhot poker, applied to
a piece of raw meat brought to her
nostrils the odor of burning flesh.
AS a result of these tortures and 9TH
ers quite unprintable, Miss Clark has
become a nervous invalid. AS further
result the board of election commits
sioners has expelled the girl offenders
and has adopted a regulation forbid
ding secret societies among high school
pupils.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland, widow of the
former president, is making a tour Of
the Orient. Mrs. Cleveland has her
children with her and is accompanied
by party of friends. She is travelling
quietly, visiting the places which are
ordinarily made points of call by the
followers of Cook, that modern-day
patron saint of the traveller in foreign
lands
Mrs. Cleveland, you know, was in
Cairo when the Roosevelts, father and
son, arrived there from their geological
research trip into blackest Africa. The
day of their arrival she went for a
drive, attired simply in black tailor
made suit and with black chiffon
veil tied over her Panama hat.
She is looking well and is not so
heavy as she was a year ago.