Word: binney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When it was first suggested in 1833 that Philadelphia's streets be lighted by gas instead of oil, a group of such prominent citizens as Benjamin Chew, Horace Binney and Jacob Ridgeway wrote in consternation to the city council. They protested against the use of "an uncertain light, sometimes disappearing and leaving the streets and houses in total darkness." Despite these dire predictions, the city council spent $100,000 on a municipal gasworks which began supplying 46 street lights and two homes in 1836. Last week hundreds of Philadelphia housewives telephoned the city hall to find out whether...
...Home-Philadelphians who stay home for the summer swelter. Those who like music go to the Philadelphia Orchestra concerts at Robin Hood Dell to console themselves. There last week 3,000 Philadelphians could almost imagine themselves out of the sticky, uncomfortable city when Mary Binney Montgomery and her troupe danced their own version of George Gershwin's An American in Paris. Miss Montgomery's choreography followed closely Gershwin's sparkling musical account of a tourist "adrift in the City of Light." The American (Harry Teplitz) elbowed his way bewilderedly through raucous vendors and squabbling shopkeepers, was momentarily...
Abroad. The same night that Mary Binney Montgomery pretended to be in Paris, Philadelphia Dancer Catherine Littlefield, her former teacher, actually was in Paris, winning even greater praise for her ballet impressions of the U. S. The Littlefield troupe had gone abroad early in the summer, expecting to be the first U. S. troupe to do so (TIME, Feb. 22). Everywhere they went they were a sensation. In Paris they danced eleven times in a week. President Lebrun attended opening night. U. S. Ambassador William Christian Bullitt, himself a Philadelphian, kissed Catherine Littlefield on both cheeks when the performance...
Died. Archibald Marshall, 68, humorist, novelist (Peter Binney, Undergraduate; The Graftons; Exton Manor; The Claimants) ; in Cambridge, England. His 30-odd novels of quiet, peaceful English country life were compared, over his mild objections, to those of Anthony Trollope...
Married. David Binney Putnam, 20, son of Publisher George Palmer Putnam, explorer-author (David Goes Voyaging, David Goes to Greenland, David Goes to Baffin Land, David Sails the Viking Trail); and Xilla Shiles of La Fayette, Ga.; in Fort Pierce...