The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-02-09
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New York. - Sixteen years old and
rs notches in her gun! That's the rec
ord Of Miss Kidranouhi Krikorian,
just arrived here from her home in
Armenia The Holy Terror" of the
Armenian army, was the name they
gave her when they were fighting the
Turks, and those rs gun hicks mean
one dead Turk per nick. At the age of
elven Kidranouhis mother, father,
brothers and sisters were murdered
before her eyes. She was saved, only
to be sold at auction to an Arab brig
and, whose slave she was for four
years. 1t was in the garb of an Arab
boy that she enlisted with the Armen-
ian army. Her commanding officer
and guardian, Lieut.. Shishmanian, of
the oFreign Legion, has brought her
to some friends in this country.
The American-born Countess Floria
de Martinprey has gone the rest of the
memoir writer's one better. She is do
ing her memoirs, which have been ap-
pearing in New York Sunday news
paper, into scenario form, and then
here is the coup de force-she is
herself to act the lead.
Zoe Atkins, who wrote Declasse. in
which Ethel Barrymore mad such
success, has new play now being re-
hearsed. "The Lady in Waiting" is the
title, and Miss Atkins has used it as a
means of sattarizing tn artcitc tenn
permanent Her heroine is an operate
prima donna.
Everybody in New York who has
any private stock tsill on hand, is
considerable disturbed over the joker
in bill recently introduced into the
legislature to bolster up prohibition
enforcement. 1t makes citizen re-
sponsible for whatever damage may
be done by anyone to whom he has
given liquor. If guest even several
houre after leaving ones house,
smashes window or policeman, the
policeman or the window owner may
collect damages, not from the eXhiler
ated one, but from his generous friend,
No limit is given nthe bill, and the
man who goes on an unexpected ram
page might swear it was the result of
a delayed hangover and so have all
bills sent to a host of week or so
back. The measure, if passed, certainly
will put damper on any liquid hos
pitality still extant.
One of the most interesting, because
unexpected, rows of buildings in New
York will soon give way to the pro-
gress which long ago engulfed the
rest of their neighborhood. They are
six buildings on Fortieth street, be-
tween Broadway and Sixth avenue.
With business skyscrapers hemming
them in they have stood there for
nearly 100 years, set back about ~
feet from the sidewalk behind old iron
ratings. And they have housed queer
little shops, running largely to an
tiuues and near-art. The most start
ling occupation carried on in them is
where the bellows of true village
blacksmith shop roar in the ground
floor of one of them. A blacksmith
shop within half block of the Metro
politan Opera House! Anyway, their
owner has recently died, and these
dwellings which has been renting $l66
month. will sell for-well, probably
$4,000, 900.
A varied and distinguished lot OF
visitors landed the other day from the
Aquitania. Prince and Princess BIZ
besco, of Rubania were among them;
the Prince being the newly appointed
minister to Washington from his
country, and the Princess being still
more interesting as the daughter OF
Mrs. Margot Asquith, wife fthe for
mer British Premier. Then there was
Sir Earnest Shackelton, the explorer,
Mrs. Claire Sheridan, who has been in
Russia making busts of Lenine and
Trotzky, and Lydia Lopokova, the
Russian dancer who has come as
feature for a new musical comedy.
| Anyone who looks upon cats as un-
necessary evils or even useless pets
ought to make the acquaintance Of
Cranreuch ii, the Angora which took
the championship prize at the recent
cat show, in New York. For Gran
reauch's special role in life is that OF
sending a girl through college. He is
owned by Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. Gerber
ich, of Arlington, N. j., and Elizabeth
Gerberich is going to have her COM
plete education paid for from the prize