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Adam's Apple is ever so vaguely reminiscent of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Even as Wilde's Algernon Moncrieff invented his mythical friend Bunbury for a social convenience, so Playwright Test Dalton's stockmarketeer invents an opulent "Uncle John" as an excuse to escape from his wife of nights. When a burglar is caught by the wife and poses as "Uncle John" there is a great deal of embarrassment all around, no small part of which is genuine, shared by actors and audience for a play both flat and flimsy...
...Algernon Sydney Frissell, 84, chairman of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Bank, longtime (1885-1916) president, was bumped by an automobile last fortnight, knocked down, hospitalized...
...mesdames J. H. Adamson, R. L. Agassiz, Charles Almy, P. deM, Bailey, S. H. Batchelder, W. C. Bayhes, J. C. Bayley, Everett Bradley F. M. Bud, Godfrey Cabot, David Cheever, Algernon Coolidge, Juiian Coolidge, C. P. Curtis, G. S. Curtis, H. T. Cutler, Bradford Dorr, J. D. M. Ford, Q. M. Fowle, K. Francke, Langdon Frothingham, G. P. Gardiner, P. W. Gentleman, J. H. Gifford, E. P. Goodnow, L. C. Graton, Frederick Haldsworth, G. W. Harrington, H. M. Houser, C. E. lndus...
...Chair after having been "in trade" (in business). Modest yet inflexible, he last week retired as a commoner entitled to a pension of £4,000 ($19,440) a year, having risen from the nonentity of a poor cotton spinner. His successor is Speaker the Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy, son of Baron Southampton, one-time Page of Honor to Queen Victoria, but now called "Mr. Speaker" and ranking as "First Commoner of the Realm...
...election. Donning court dress, he marched to the Bar of the House of Lords and conveyed news of his election to Their Lordships. While he countermarched back to the House of Commons, famed Joy Bells rang out from St. Margaret's Church across the way. Finally Sir Edward Algernon Fitzroy donned over his court dress the robe and wig of office, rehearsed to the Commons at length all that had happened, and took the Chair as Speaker...