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Cartoonist Dahl of the Boston Herald drew innumerable cartoons, and Felix Adler famous circus clown left his familiar role for the evening to tell the class of 1941 a few jokes...
...additions to an already imposing list of celebrities include Frank "Bring 'Em Back Alive" Buck; Margot Grahame, star of the recently opened play "Lady At Large" now at the Plymouth; Joe Cashman, sports scribe of the Boston American; cartoonist Dahl of the Herald; Felix Adler, world-famous Ringling clown; and the Joseph Champagnes, well-known Boston dancing couple...
More members of labor unions throughout the world are affiliated with the Second (Socialist) International than with any other group. Its secretary is Dr. Friedrich Wolfgang Adler, an Austrian who in 1917 was convicted of assassinating the then Austrian Imperial Chancellor, Count Stürgkh, but was amnestied. Socialist workers throughout the world have long known that Dr. Adler always carries an extra forged passport in the name of "Al Frey" in addition to his own, but Rotterdam police have not. They know Dr. Adler well and one day last August, when he handed them his forged passport by mistake...
...become the centre of excitement. Richardson's successor as No. i U. S. architect was an immaculate, brown-eyed little French-Irishman of haughty brilliance named Louis Henry Sullivan. Young Frank Wright had not been in Chicago a year before he was a draftsman in the office of Adler & Sullivan...
Prairie Houses. While Louis Sullivan was working on public buildings, what few commissions Adler & Sullivan were given for private houses fell to Frank Lloyd Wright to design. At 20 he married and borrowed $5,000 from Sullivan to build his own home in Oak Park. For the sheer pleasure of it as well as to pay the debts he easily contracted for his growing family, Wright took what jobs he could get designing private houses outside the office. This angered Sullivan and in 1894, after nearly six years with the firm, Wright threw down his pencil and walked...