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Whispering Wires was a play that was adapted from a novel by the same name. The play was written by Kate McLaurin. It opened on Broadway in 1922 and ran very successfully until 1923. It had a complicated plot that could be best described as a murder-thriller.
Reminder: Alexander Stewart is a friend from Union College, Stanford's undergraduate school. You can read more about him in this post from my 1922 blog: Tuesday, February 21, 1922.
Timmerman is Donald Timmerman (also spelled Timerman), one of Stanford's B.U. friends. He was born on 20 December 1894 in Minneapolis, MN. He became a Methodist minister (after graduating from BUST) and settled in Columbus, OH with his wife, Lois Evelyn Hoffman (also Mary Leah's friend). They were married August 25, 1923. They had one daughter, Lois Ann Timmerman, born November 27, 1924. That means that around the end of February, Lois becomes pregnant. Watch and see--I'm guessing no one will report it in the diaries or the letters. They also had a son, Donald Jr., who died in 1931 at one year old.
According to his Sons of the American Revolution application, Donald served in the Army during WWI and beyond, staying until 1929 in the Army Reserves as a Chaplain. He died in December 1968 in Marietta, OH. Lois had died in February of that year. Their daughter, Lois Ann, died in 2002. She never married.
Lest we forget, it was Donald and Alex who were responsible for Stanford and Mary Leah's having met. See this blog post for 1922 in which Stanford reports the event: November 2.
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