Word: astors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Membership is something short of 1,000. Only a fraction are active members. There are about 300 actors. The rest are writers, painters, sculptors, playwrights, newspapermen and a few acknowledged patrons of the arts, of which Vincent Astor is most prominent. In glass cases on the wall of the club hang Booth's Hamlet and Shylock costumes, his pipes, the skull he used in Hamlet. It is a real skull. Tradition says it is the shell of a murdered man who willed it for Booth's use. Another treasured relic is Mark Twain's check...
...Alanson Bigelow Houghton, to Chandler Parsons Anderson Jr., 27, onetime secretary to Ambassador Houghton, son of Lawyer Chandler Parsons Anderson, U. S. Commissioner of Mixed Claims Commission between U. S. and Germany, 1923; in London. Present were: Sir & Lady Austen Chamberlain, Premier & Mrs. Baldwin, Lord Balfour, Lord & Lady Astor, Lord & Lady Granard, Dean arid Mrs. Inge, Mrs. George Cabot Lodge, the Countess of Oxford & Asquith, the Marchioness Curzon, Prince & Princess Blucher, Col. Edward M. House, and many another...
Sued for Divorce. Lucien Muratore, 49, onetime actor with Réjane and Bernhardt, more recently famed as tenor of the Chicago Grand Opera Association; by Lina Cavalieri Chanler Muratore, 53, opera singer, in Paris. In 1912 she divorced Robert Winthrop Chanler, grandson of John Jacob Astor; he was supposed to have given her a large part of his fortune, which brought from his brother, John Armstrong Chanler, who had changed his name to Chaloner due to a difference with his family over his sanity, a now famed telegram: "Who's looney now?" In 1914 she married Lucien Muratore...
Adam, Biblical father of the human race, was called "that weakling," and Mother Eve "an angel," last week at Belfast, Ireland, by their suppositious descendant Viscountess Astor, famed "First Woman M. P." tireless exhalter of women over...
Said Lady Astor to the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ireland, an appreciative audience...