Word: booth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William T. Tilden 2nd, the World Tennis Champion, starred last night in the first production of Booth Tarkington's comedy "Clarence" presented by "The Concord Players" in the Veterans' Building, Concord. The performance will be repeated tonight and tomorrow night at 8 o'clock...
...Booth Tarkington's Bristol Glass (comedy of life on the Maine Coast) will open at the Blackstone Theatre, Chicago, April 9, with Frank McGlynn (of Abraham Lincoln], Gregory Kelly, Ruth Gordon and Frederick Perry in the cast. The piece is scheduled for an autumn opening...
...Finance Section under the Chairmanship of Willis H. Booth, Vice President of the Guaranty Trust Co., New York, approved a resolution presented by the American delegation calling upon the Governments of all countries to form an international conference, to which the world's business men would be invited, to settled the outstanding European financial and economic problems. Fred I. Kent, Vice President of the Bankers Trust Co. of New York, made a strong speech in favor of this resolution...
...Booth was elected president of the International Chamber. It is the first time that an American has held this office. Five years ago he was elected vice president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Later he became a member of the Senior Council and is now an honorary vice president of the Chamber and chairman of its Foreign Commerce Department Committee...
Died: Mrs. I. V. Taylor (Ida Vernon), actress, 80, in Sheldon, Vt. Her first part was in A Midsummer Night's Dream, played at the Boston Theatre in 1856. She was a friend of Edwin Booth, who left her a legacy at his death. Later she played with Mrs. Fiske and William Hodge. Her best remembered plays were East Lynne, which she played for 120 nights in Richmond, and The Two Orphans...