Word: bartons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proud tan and a clear head, the President arose early on his first morning back at the White House. He read a large batch of mail, signed documents, received callers. Among them were: Cabinet members Hoover, Kellogg, Sargent, Wilbur; Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S.; John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross, who discussed relief plans for Florida; Senator Frank B. Willis of Ohio...
...these, able Manhattan cartoonist Ralph Barton filmed with his tiny camera. To newspapermen he said: "I do not have to ask my victim to pose for hours while I sketch him or her. I just shoot a few dozen feet of film and have my prey at my mercy forever after...
...have you filmed Max Reinhardt?" queried a newsgatherer. No, Mr. Barton had not been allowed to "shoot" the man whose genius had attracted so many of the World's celebrities to the Saltzburg Festival (see p. 17). Max Reinhardt, who is making of Salzburg, his childhood home, an annual August rendezvous of everyone at all Art conscious, lurked in his Festspielhaus, directing a rehearsal of Turandot, is proverbially averse to being photographed. Came a little Jew, "the slickest Jew on earth," the uncrowned Barnum of the Drama. Mr. Morris Gest, in genial mood, volunteered to get Cartoonist Barton...
Last week William Eleazar Barton, hoary custodian of Lincolnia, proclaimed that Father Cyr, who his Eminence declared celebrated the masses at Lincoln's stepmother's, had not yet been ordained when Lincoln left his father's home, that Sarah Bush Lincoln was not Catholic by birth and that she died in the communion of the Disciples Church, that Father St. Cyr never celebrated mass in the Lincoln abode, that if Cardinal Mundelein really wanted the six carved chairs, Dr. Barton would gladly exchange them for their weight in gold...
Showing documentary evidence in the Outlook, Dr. Barton indicated that the Cardinal had meant no harm, that he had merely confused two Abrahams of the Lincoln clan, two first cousins...