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Alma Taylor was the conductor of a marriage bureau. "Dot" Sapp and Evelyn Segafoose were both lawyers in her office and Mary Walzl worked in conjunction with the three of them. Mary was judge of a divorce court. Mary Katherine Warfield turned out to be a professional debater. What an enviable position! She could talk all she pleased and get paid for it! Annetta Yates was the most popular woman of the moment-She had just made another record for the channel swim. She had been offered a posi- tion in the movies but her manager, "Baby" Kraus had made her refuse. The reasons for this refusal were withheld. "Mose" Machamer was a motor-man on a street car 111 Pittsburgh- Catherine Stoner and Ruth Stanbaugh were selling Real Silk fishing rods-They had canvassed the entire east of the United States. Martin Diffendal had just escaped from jail for the second time-He was confined there because he had been convicted as a leader of a band of Chicago gangsters. Evangeline Lathem and Margaret Warner were in the Follies-doing their stuff as comediennes. Casper Hart was teaching Elocution at Washington College. It had been turned into a girls' finishing school. "Ginna" Holland, Gertrude Kelbaugh and Evelyn Bradley were open- ing a beauty parlor. Pearl Benedict was operating too-at an eye, ear and throat hospital- Mary Hitchcock was a chiropodist. Say! Mame, this wasn't a dream-it was a night mare-- "Marge" Martignoni was selling real estate+-" Marge" would! and let me remind you-"Marge" could! "Skeet" Ely and Mary Myers were doing Isadora Duncan Ballet-both studied abroad-you surely haven't forgotten that? Warren Warren was a jester for the Queen of Sheba. page one hundred thirty-nine