Word: archer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the title, "The Making of the American Republic," Doubleday, Page & Company has just published a popular history of the United States by Archer Butler Hulbert. Professor Hulbert confesses at the outset that he is an optimist, a sincere disbeliever in the theory that the evil men do lives after them. He introduces the tricksters and rogues who play a part in the narrative of the countrys progress only when a knowledge of them is essential to a correct historical perspective. His hope is to show that the national difficulties of today and to-morrow are no more intricate...
...Green Goddess. George Bernard Shaw is reported"to have told William Archer (dean of the London critics and author of this melodrama), that he considered this the best motion picture plot he had ever heard. His opinion discloses the fallibility of genius. Despite extraordinarily able performance, beauty and detailed lavishness of settings, and masses of money the picture lodges below the popular pinnacles now occupied by The Covered Wagon and Little Old New York...
Died. Sir H. T. Smart, Bart., 70, comic opera and vaudeville actor, known professionally as Charles Archer, at Los Angeles. Preferring the life of an actor to that of a baronet, he came to the U. S. in his youth and went West with the first Pinafore company...
...Archer M. Huntington, millionaire patron of the arts: " Popular vote (at New York City's Silver Jubilee) acclaimed me as one of a number of ' civic heroes' who have done most good for the greater city since its creation 25 years ago. Others similarly chosen were: Mrs. E. H. Harriman (whose private benefactions have been considerable), Nathan Straus and Mrs. Millicent Hearst (whose picture as a public benefactor can be viewed almost daily in her husband's press...
...Jockey. Steve Donoghue was the jockey. This is his fifth Derby victory?a feat only twice before equaled: a century ago by a jockey named Robinson, and between 1877 and 1886 by a jockey named Archer. But Donoghue goes one better. He won for the first time in the history of the race (which has been run regularly, even during the war, from 1780 to the present day) his golden spurs, a much coveted prize offered by the Jockey Club of England to the jockey who wins the Derby three times in succession. Donoghue won the 1921 race...