The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-20

shaw and child are occupying the
A. B. Shielding cottage at 206
South Lumina avenue as a year
around home. having arrived here
from California several months
ago. Mrs. Bradshaw is the former
Bertram Shedding OF Charlotte and
is a sister of Mrs. John H. Hardin
Of this city. Tom Bradshaw is con,
nected with the Point Peter
on-crete Co. of Wilmington.
Mrs. Alexander NJ. Hall and her
daughter Mrs. Thomas Wright
Keith of 210 North 18th street left
last night for Pelham, N. Y.
where they will visit the formers
daughter and son-in-law. Mr.. and
Mrs. Nelson Myers. Prior to her
marriage Mrs. Myers was Jessie
Hall of this city.
Mrs, Charles W. Worth of For.
est Hills is. spending several
months with her daughter and son,
i1-law, Mr.. and Mrs. John Stanley
Jervis at their home in Gross
Pointe, Mich. Mrs. Jervis is the
former Adelaide Worth of vii.
mington.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl N. Dunn, Jr.,
and little son, MCKEE, returned the
first of last week by air from
Bronxville. N. Y, where Mrs.
Dunn and son spent two weeks
Nth her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Gordon S%eagrove. The Dunns two
young daughters, Jean and DIANA
will remain in the north with thei1
grandparents for a month longer,
The following excerpt which is
taken from the July 3 issue Of
The Boston Daily Record and IS
from the pen of George W. Clarke
in his column IMAM ABOUT BOS-
TON" will make interesting read
ing to the many friends of the
former nellie MERCER, now Mrs.
Herbert Sheath of Boston. We
quote; MEET BOSTON'S MRS.
ZIEGFELD! !-Nelle MERCER by
name, of The Brunswick Hotel,
Boston, and of sundry other en-
terprises, who, ir her own quiet
way has contributed a very great
deal to Broadway in her show
backing, and believe it or not, has
racked up a notable profit in her
adventures in the theatre-More It
might be said than can be claimed
by sundry others here who at
various times have also put money
into grease paint. And it is all
important at the rloment for, she
end her associa'es-Rob Reud for
cne, Jules Leventhal for another
have a new shoW coming up this
fall which is already a hit in Lon
don, practically a sensation, the
envy Of many another Broadway
producer, and which should be a
hit here. To meet nellie MERCER
Mrs. Herbert Sheath since last
fall-you would v expect any
such involvement in her career.
To Boston Bankers and Business
men she is a BuSinessWoman and
a very successful one. She took
ever The Brunswick Hotel there
some time ago when it was not
a profit making enterprise. In the
years following she has Weathered
many a storm SO that now it is
as solid as Bunker Hill. She has
ether enterprises too ranging
from the creosote business in Vir-
ginia to a summer enterprise ir
Maine. They arc all good but show
business has been her bonanza.
How she started IN it is her owr
affair, but it a be said that BOZ
Reud, long a Man : about-Manhat
ten, an old friend, was at the bot.
tom Of it. Their first show, Of
which she owned a substantial in.
t@erest, was 1.-THE Two Mrs. Car.
rolls" and if you are seeing il
at your neighborhocd movie house
row, you will be pleased to know
that it paid off 10 her-including
movie rights-to the tune of 5000,
coo, and that on a SIS, 600 invest
ment. "Ramshackle Inn which
p.emlered here and had Zazu
fitts for it's star was another, anc
1t ran for months on the road,
ana every week nellie got a check
out OF it. Jules Leventhal, thire
IN +the triumvirate, is n of hel
-aVorlte people of all time. Mis-
Iercler, to use The name by whicl
she is best known, is frankly i n
'eresled in the stars and the man
her In which she believes thei
aspects influence the affairs O
humans. She Is convinced. for ii