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...halls, a huge wooden amphitheater, a miniature reproduction of the Holy Land. Chautauquans may study anything from basket-weaving to playwriting. Most cottagers, who return year after year, are elderly. Men have a Horseshoe Club, women a Bird & Tree Club headed by Founder Miller's daughter, Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison. Each day begins with community prayer. Chief social events are ice-cream-&-cake festivals. A ban on smoking has been lifted lately. Younger Chautauquans may boat, play golf or tennis, swim every day but Sunday. Revolt in Milwaukee...
Last week the 125 chaplains who tend the 130,000 souls of the U. S. Army were given a new head. Appointed as their chief for a four-year-term was Lieut.-Colonel Alva Jennings Brasted, 57, of the Third Infantry at Fort Snelling, Minn. Graduated from Des Moines College, the University of Chicago and its Divinity School, Chief Chaplain Brasted was a Baptist minister before he entered the Army as a first lieutenant in 1913. He served at U. S. forts and camps, went to France in 1918, returned to minister at more forts and camps. A cultured, diffident...
...content with doing a first-rate job at a desk that many a colleague has found exhausting, he somehow finds time to turn out book reviews, magazine articles, has now written a book, a timely newspaper-man's-eye-view of Manhattan under Prohibition. Says Star Reporter Alva Johnston, who writes the introduction: "Mr. Walker seeks by a wealth of anecdote and a cheerful ironic style to disguise the fact that he has written an authoritative work on metropolitan anthropology...
Chosen "Queen of His Court of Love and Beauty until his coming again" by the Veiled Prophet, whose identity is traditionally kept secret even by local newspapers, at the ceremonious 54th annual Veiled Prophet Ball in St. Louis, was Jane Alva Johnson, 19, daughter of Vice President Andrew W. Johnson of International Shoe Co. Present at the coronation was Prince Louis Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, Ford employe, second son of the ex-Crown Prince, who commented: "It is a long time since I have witnessed such scenes...
Died. Le Grand Parish, 67, retired president of Lima Locomotive Works, one-time associate of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of freight car door locks and improved railway brakes; of a heart attack; in Hackensack...