Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leopold. Irrepressibles recalled last week a sentence written by Prince Leopold in his diary at the age of nine: "This morning I met mama near the library. Now I am happy. I have kissed her as much as I could...
Comment. Critics were wary, called it an interesting effort to "solve the age-old problem of reconciling music and drama in the theatre," commended Composer Harling for his mighty second act, deplored the fact that it was so much too big for the two acts that framed it, wondered if the same audience would be able to delight in the many heterogeneous parts...
...young men" wander about a strange Boston, a strange Harvard. And to make some gesture of despair they cheer from the opponent's side at every football game. Harvard is to them a stack privilege and the survival of the fittest, plus a meal once in a dog's age at a table bigger than a grave marker...
None the less, he kept up his private child welfare work. He built the $3,000,000 Heckscher Foundation building in Manhattan for the entertainment and care of children up to the age of 16. Here he cooperates with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, by housing the waifs. He financed two Central Park playgrounds, and gave New York State a 1,500-acre park ground on Long Island. And only a few days before he was seen "bounding," he had returned from a European study trip with plans for sanitary, low-rent, "model" tenements, such...
Mary Miles Minter, onetime cinema actress: "When I was in the movies, my mother, Pearl Miles Reilly, better known as Charlotte Selby, controlled the money, before I became of age, and only last January I filed a suit demanding an accounting from her. And now my father, J. Homer Reilly, has also filed a suit asking for one-half of all the earnings I made while on the screen. I gave out no statement of the amount involved, but newspapermen last week placed it around...