Word: alden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...programs were as perfectly arranged for children as the children's Utopia sung about in the first U. S. performance of German Paul Hindemith's Let's Build a City. There was a program of musical animals (Saint-Saëns' "Cuckoo," John Alden Carpenter's "Krazy Kat"), one of dances. There were picture-book slides to illustrate Debussy's Toy Chest and the country where prodigious Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived. Pianist Maier's assistants were all children, but none had prodigious talent. Little East Side children from the Music School of Henry...
Died. Mrs. Rue Winterbotham Carpenter, 53, interior decorator, wife of Businessman-Composer John Alden Carpenter; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Chicago. Mrs. Carpenter, president of the Chicago Arts Club, superintended art work for the rooms of the Double Six Club in Manhattan's new Waldorf-Astoria, for the Elizabeth Arden Building...
...worldwide stir that these remarks created was a three-day wonder. Upon looking up Professor Shaw, the impressionable Press found that he was a Professor of Philosophy and 60 years old. Not only that, he was a ninth lineal descendant of John & Priscilla Alden, author of a learned book, The Road to Culture * and repeatedly voted by students the most popular man of the N. Y. U. faculty. The only strange thing found in his history was his walking 15 years ago from Philadelphia to Manhattan, 90 mi. in 23 hr. 40 min. Editors telephoned, telegraphed, cabled and radioed last...
...Clyde Griffiths of the book and cinema was in actual life one Chester Gillette, and Roberta Alden was Miss Grace Brown. They had been keeping more or less clandestine company for some time before the episode and when they discovered their unfortunate plight a series of letters passed between them, these letters being mainly written by Miss Brown who implored Gillette to marry...
...estranged husband, a 78-year-old dandy in a blue jacket, flowing red tie and handlebar mustaches, was also present. He is the John Gellatly from whom in 1929 Congress accepted a $4,000,000 art collection-Whistler, La Farge, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, George Inness, John Noble, J. Alden Weir, a fine collection of porcelains and 16th Century jewelry-for the Smithsonian Institution's National Gallery. He used to keep his collection,in a private gallery in Manhattan's arty Heckscher Building, did not invite the public. His money came from his first wife, Edith Rogers...