Word: attender
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Expelled from Germany last year as an "undesirable," sued for divorce last fortnight by Princess Victoria, whose attorneys named a barmaid, Subkoff was arrested last week and jailed as he slipped into Germany, ostensibly to attend the funeral at the Friedrichshof, near Cronberg, seat of the Landgrave of Hesse. There, in the Taunus Mountains, amid rustling, pungent pines, Victoria of Hohenzollern was buried in the presence of her weeping sister Margaret and their Royal Highnesses the abdicated Grand Duke of Hesse and Duke of Brunswick...
Whereupon no less than three hundred consecutive dramas with a backstage setting have been produced. The screen critics who are betting men make a comfortable living offering eight to five that each new picture they are forced to attend will deal with the adventures of a song-and-dance team, in which the man is a lovable, but worthless, drunkard and the woman a noble creature who makes sacrifices for him. Occasionally, of course, these gamblers happen to be wrong. Then the photoplay turns out to be a merry narrative of college life, in which the students take excellent courses...
...plans of the Cambridge committee are but part of the numerous celebrations of the Massachusetts Tercentenary, which will be held in every town and city of the state. The individual programs are being, scheduled to avoid conflicting dates, so that visitors next summer will be able to attend any or all of the various programs. The present understanding, is that the Cambridge pageant will be given in the Stadium some time in June...
...Princeton game, and that excepting for a few bruises, all the members of the team were in fine condition. Albie Booth remained in the Yale infirmary today and Coach Connors stated that Booth's torn muscle would be well by Saturday. Booth will not be allowed to attend classes for several days but it is expected that he will be on the sidelines at the practice tomorrow afternoon...
Paul Robeson meant to be a lawyer. He took a two-year course at Columbia University, earned his degree. During that period, however, he performed in a Y. M. C. A. play which Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill happened to attend. So enthusiastic was O'Neill that he went backstage and begged Robeson to act in Emperor Jones. His law course finished, Robeson consented, and made a name as a big actor in Emperor Jones, All God's Chillun, Black...