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Much later to be a matronly foil to the Three Stooges: "Symona Farner Boniface (March 5, 1894 – September 2, 1950) was an American film actress, most frequently seen in bit parts in comedy shorts, mostly at Columbia Pictures, particularly those of The Three Stooges. She appeared in 120 films between 1925 and 1956." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=13180857

Art Siegel: Thanks for the details about Symona Boniface and her connection to the Three Stooges films. We will add more details when we update.

Bio at Supporting Player Symona Boniface at billcappello.com "Her parents, George C. Boniface, and Nonna Ferner, were popular stage actors in their day. ... Symona had small roles in several plays in the late 'teens and early twenties." Interesting tidbit: www.google.com/patents/US579337 is an 1897 patent granted to her mother for a child's traveling toilet. "The object of my invention is to produce a childs traveling toilet that can be used in railroadcars, steamboats, and hotels, and which will have such an appearance that it will not indicate the object for which it is used." Presumably the parents took Symona with them on tour. In 1902, Nonna was granted another patent [www.google.mv/patents/US692109] with object "to provide a new and improved combined heater, cooler, and storage-basket for containing filled and empty nursing-bottles, supply-bottles, nipples, and other articles and food products, also fuel, the device being arranged to permit of conveniently heating the milk in the nursing-bottle or for cooling the same and being portable and more especially designed for use when traveling in railroad cars and other vehicles or when staying at hotels and other places, to enable parents and attendants to keep a supply of milk or other food products on hand in a heated or cooled condition for immediate use by invalids, infants, and other persons, the device being also serviceable for use by outing parties." www.google.com/patents/US1096672 is another patent, granted jointly to Symona and her mother in 1914 for a traveling baby bath-tub.

More on her movie career (with pictures) at www.lordheath.com/index.php?p=1_368_Symona-Boniface See also Findagrave site at www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5924280 and www.ibdb.com/Person/View/399673 for a part in a 1919 Broadway show that ran for 13 performances!

She also wrote plays: books.google.com/books?id=ExADAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA55 has a 1915 Copyright Catalog entry for a 1-act play called "The Doll" books.google.com/books?id=IGYcAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1885 has entries for titles, "Mushrooms," and "Thru the Windows." books.google.com/books?id=ZMAiAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1039 gives "mushrooms" a 1921 date. books.google.com/books?id=As5DAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA174 has a 1929 entry for "Decency? or, As One Woman to Another." books.google.com/books?id=41ljAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA91 has a 1938 entry for "Failure to Provide." books.google.com/books?id=hEBhAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA169 shows a 1945 entry for "Heavenly Distinction."

"Flora Sandes (22 January 1876 – 24 November 1956) was the only British woman officially to serve as a soldier in World War I. Initially a St. John Ambulance volunteer, she travelled to Serbia, where, in the confusion of war, she was formally enrolled in the Serbian army. She was subsequently promoted to the rank of Sergeant major, and, after the war, to Captain. She was decorated with seven medals." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Sandes

Her 1916 autobiographical "An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army" can be found at: archive.org/details/englishwomanserg00sanduoft

This photo (cropped) appeared in the The [Berea, Kentucky] Citizen., March 28, 1918, Page 2 (top right) chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052076/1918-03-28/ed-... " photographed while selling programs at the war exhibition at Burlington House, London, in aid of the British Red Cross."

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