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Katharine Cornell maintained, even while she was performing them, that her rich rôles in The Green Hat, The Barretts of Wimpole Street and Lucrece were only part of her apprenticeship as an actress. When she had thoroughly prepared her self, said she, she was going to stand the supreme dramatic test of Shakespeare's Juliet. In Manhattan last week she presented herself in the tragedy that has brought more woe to more ambitious actresses than any other single play. To the satisfaction of critics and public alike, Katharine Cornell proved herself, once & for all, the First Lady...
...little better, being a student at the South Kensington Normal School of Science even more. But as a science student he found so many things to interest and annoy him that at the end of three years he flunked, had to go back to teaching once more. A long apprenticeship at freelance writing taught him gradually how to write naturally. Slowly he became a journalist, an author, a Great...
Competent and strong, Footballer Sturm's portrait heads revealed more finish than would be expected from a man who studied only a few weeks at Yale School of Fine Arts, served a brief apprenticeship in drawing under John Sloan. Most appealing piece was a solemn Kewpie-like head of a child called Marnie. That Mr. Sturm was already developing a fashionable following was indicated by some of his other subjects: Washington's Mrs. George Eustis, Long Island's Mrs. Ellwood Hendrick, Thomas Hitchcock Jr., Hope Williams, Gene Tunney. Strongest of the lot was his deeply creased portrait...
...Georgia farm, Floyd moved with his parents at an early age to the Cookson Hills District of the Oklahoma Ozarks. There he got the nickname of "Choc" and a bad reputation. At 18 he robbed a neighborhood post-office of $350 in pennies. A three-year apprenticeship in the St. Louis underworld landed him, in 1925, in Missouri Penitentiary for a payroll robbery. There he peddled drugs, struck down guards, and met "Red" Lovett, who teamed up with him on his release in 1929. For the next four years he robbed rural banks, taking on new partners...
...Washington, 80 women from the U. S. Children's Bureau picked at the last crumbs of a Maryland chicken & dumpling dinner. They had gathered to do honor to their chief. Grace ("G. A.") Abbott, who had resigned and was leaving Washington for good. Thirteen years ago, after an apprenticeship in Chicago's Hull House, Grace Abbott was picked by President Harding to succeed the late great Julia Lathrop as the second chief of the Children's Bureau. She hung a big, red-splotched map of U. S. infant mortality in her office, and stayed there until last...