Word: ashley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ashley Sparks, resident director of the Cunard Line, owns a home at Syosset, Long Island, where he keeps nine servants, four dogs, many a jewel. On May 13, $14,000 worth of jewels disappeared from the house. The servants were questioned; the house was searched; no clew was found. Last week, Sir Ashley's English valet was arrested on a tip from a Manhattan pawnbroker. He confessed to the police that he had stolen the jewels and hidden them in an old coat in his closet in Sir Ashley's house. The jewels were returned to their owner...
...Richman, Manhattan playwright, married Madeleine Marshall, U. S. actress, three years ago, in London after she had appeared in his play Ambush, Playwright Richman last month completed The Hungry Wife, last week inserted this public notice in Manhattan newspapers. A similar notice was inserted in London papers by Lord Ashley, heir of the Earl of Shaftesbury. His wife (Sylvia Hawkes) was also an actress...
...ASHLEY HAZARD PERRY...
Gilbert Heron Miller, who gives good things to our theatre in the grand manner,* fathered the show. The adaptation from the German of Alfred Neumann was done by able Ashley Dukes, Britisher. The scenery, some said the finest factor of the evening, was designed by Norman Bel Geddes. Eminent English Players Leslie Faber and Madge Titheradge were specially imported. Fabulous sums were spent with a devoted flourish. Few men would take such risks. Mr. Miller escapes with every honor. The Patriot is a production to be respected deeply, to be seen by many people with great interest, to be regretted...
Married. The youngest son of Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, Paul Thompson Sunday; to Mrs. Elene Herbert, of Chattanooga, Tenn.; at Tijuana, Mexico, to escape California's three-day marriage license...