People, May 7, 1934

"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

Just before she went on the stage of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House to rehearse her part in the Opera Ball, Mrs. Clendenin J. Ryan left her purse in Box 1, next to the stage. When she finished rehearsing Mrs. Ryan found that a sneak thief had taken her $850 bag, her $250 cigaret case, her $135 pocket money. Among four other rehearsing socialites robbed of $6,000 or more in jewels and cash was Mrs. Pierpont Morgan Hamilton whose husband is J. P. Morgan's nephew.

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