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...Augustus Thomas, playwright, "theatre Tsar," who once served as a page boy in the U. S. House of Representatives, injected his personality into politics last week by saying...
...University of Oregon, now presided over by one of your own disciples, would be enrolled among those who happily gather today to salute you. And the legend we would most reverently and cordially inscribe within the encircling wreath would be the vow that Rome once gave to her Augustus or her Constantine Vota...
Henry Bacon was well known as a designer of settings for sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel C. French. Among his many successes are the memorial to James McNeill Whistler in the West Point Library and the Marcus Alonzo Hanna monument at Cleveland. But his crowning achievement was the memorial to Lincoln. Here his profound knowledge of Greek architecture, coupled with his skill in adapting classic design to modern needs, produced possibly the most dignified piece of architecture in the country. Mr. Bacon was selected by the Fine Arts Commission in 1911 to design this important work...
...Elaine of Wisconsin, Senator Stanley of Kentucky, Senator Couzens of Michigan, were also " invited to speak." And among those " associated with the organization " and " expected to be in attendance " were: Gertrude Atherton; W. W. Atterbury of Pennsylvania; Senator Bruce of Maryland; Marshall Field; Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske; Kermit Roosevelt; Augustus Thomas, Owen Wister, Walter Damrosch...
...recreation is dancing, and even at his advanced age he is no wallflower. His hobby is collecting works of art. Once he created an international artistic storm by cutting out the head of a portrait of himself that he had had painted by Augustus John. He contended that as he had paid $5,000 for the canvas it was his to treat as he liked, but artists could not agree with him. His favorite authors are reputed to be Shakespeare, Emerson, Dickens, 0. Henry, Ingersoll...