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...down to serious planning. During the next year Booth purchased a Manhattan house at 16 Gramercy Park, engaged Stanford White to remodel it, collected 46 charter members, and on the last night of the year, as first president of The Players, handed over the deed of No. 16 to Augustin Daly, the first vice-president. Next day Booth moved in, and for the five remaining years of his life The Players was his home...
...helping to cement good feeling between Japan and the U. S., Dr. James Augustin Brown Scherer, onetime (1908-20) president of California Institute of Technology, last year received from the Japanese Government a jeweled medal, the Imperial Order of the Sacred Treasure. Unlike Dr. Scherer's previous eleven books on Japan, Japan Defies the World, published last January, was unpopular with the Japanese, who promptly banned it. Piqued, Dr. Scherer last week handed back his medal. Said he: "If this emblem was given me to seal my lips, I don't want...
...strange that such a penetration into a new field inspired other ventures in landscape. There comes Hendrik Goltzins, the engraver, whose two woodcut prints in great boldness of line, alone of all the early examples could be safely hung beside the strength of the "Cannon." There also was Augustin Hirschvogel, the etcher, whose print betrays the limited grasp of landscape forms in his day and there is Lautensack who loses himself in the struggle to record the whole tangle of a forest...
...department store. In 1928 he conceived an idea which seemed unlikely to set the world afire: a Conference on Distribution to parallel the conference on national and international problems held annually by the Institute of Human Relations at Williamstown, Mass. But under two enthusiasts, Dan Bloomfield and President Patrick Augustin O'Connell, of Boston's Retail Trade Board, conferences have been held every year since then. Last week when the ninth annual conference met in Boston, it proved rather conclusively that Mr. Bloomfield had had a good idea...
Last week Lieut.-Col. Augustin M. Prentiss, Ph. D., of the U. S. Army's Chemical Warfare Service published a 739-page treatise entitled Chemicals in War* which was hailed by colleagues as the most comprehensive work on the subject in English. † In this book Lieut.-Col. Prentiss describes in minute detail the tactics and accessory equipment of chemical warfare, the organization of chemical troops, the chemicals used in the World War, their composition, manufacture, military value, physiological effects and probable role in future war. A chapter on the protection of civil populations is contributed by Major George...