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Birthday for Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, grand old lady of the U. S. theatre (born March 12, 1845). She played with charm the role of the grandmother in the musical comedy, Just Fancy, in Chicago, professed a little stage-fright after 63 years on the boards...
Birthday for Adolph S. Ochs (born March 12, 1858 in Cincinnati, Ohio). From newsboy and printer's devil in Knoxville, Tenn., he had risen to publisher of the New York Times. Said Alfred Morton Cohen, of the Hebrew Union College in Manhattan, where Mr. Ochs is chairmanning a $5,000,000 endowment drive: "As Adolph Ochs has climbed rung by rung the ladder of fame and fortune, his love for his fellowmen has increased more and more...
Birthday for Oliver Wendell Holmes, born March 8, 1841, thrice wounded in the Civil War, for a quarter-century one of the eight Associate Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court. Thanking a friend for felicitations, he said, "Mine is just an old story told eighty-six times and this year for the eighty-seventh time." Despite a cold which confined him to his home in Washington, he spent his birthday working on the cases assigned him by Chief Justice William Howard Taft. "I should die if I quit work," he is said to say at intervals...
Less superlatively staged, the play might have seemed no more than sound and furies signifying nothing. But James Reynold's elaborately perfect settings surrounded a practically flawless cast which in turn surrounded the magnificent performance of Laurette Taylor as Fifi Sands. Laurette Taylor was born on April Fools Day some time ago; she is married to Playwright J. Hartley Manners, in whose most famed opus, Peg o' My Heart, she entranced more than 600 Manhattan audiences. That was 15 years ago. Now Laurette Taylor is a better actress than ever...
Author Claude McKay is a Negro. Born in Jamaica of parents who had been abducted from Madagascar, he was sent to the U. S. by a friend to be educated. After two years in college, he washed pots and pans in Harlem, worked on Pullmans and steamers. He wrote most of Home to Harlem while working on docks at London and Marseilles...