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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Arliss with subdued strength plays Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice" this week at the Plymouth. He has throttled down the weeping and wildly gesticulating Shylocks to his own restrained taste. Moderation is born of the knowledge that orating Shylocks have long lain in the alley, that age's resignation to evil is in Shylock's limbs, and that this play is leaving the category of the one-part show. When Lorenzo has flown with Jessica and the old man knocks at the door of his house, there is no crescendo from wonder to premonition to fear to sorrow...
...Born. To John Davison Rockefeller, 88, a second-great granddaughter; first grandchild of Rockefeller Jr. The child's mother is Mrs. David M. Milton (Abby Rockefeller) of Manhattan...
...Charles H. Clark, editor of the Textile World, has been zealous & learned. He solemnly told the cotton men at Pawtucket last week, that: "Thorp was born in 1784, presumably in Rehoboth, Mass., the son of Reuben and Hannah (Bucklin) Thorp. No records of the date and place of his birth have been located, but entries in the Bibles of his brothers, David and Comfort, agree that at the time of his death, Nov. 15, 1848, he was sixty-four years old. For the assumption that he was born in Rehoboth there is the fact that his father and mother were...
...putting it together. Jean Hersholt as Solomon Levy (father of Abie) performed with dignity and feeling. The plot was slightly changed: Abie Levy (Charles Rogers) and Rosie Murphy (Nancy Carroll) get married secretly soon after the World War. Their parents' consent is not obtained until twins are born...
...March, the baby was born and with it, thought sophisticated newsreaders, a precedent. They foresaw future front pages headlined with "scoops" in a day when scoops are rare. . . . ASTERBILTS ABOUT TO HAVE A CHILD. . . . MOVIE QUEEN WILL BEAR TWINS, DOCTOR PREDICTS. . . . MAGNATE'S OFFSPRING THREE WEEKS OVERDUE...