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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said, of gratitude. From English technologists he received the information needed to perfect his first photographic films. The present head of the Eastman Kodak Co. research laboratories is Dr. Charles Edward Kenneth Mees, English-born, London-educated...
...took off her coat, sat down on a bed, fell over dead. On her body policemen found, cared for some $300,000 worth of jewelry. Lying in state at Campbell's famed Funeral Parlors, few came to see her; many saw her recent cinema across the street. Born in Kansas City, Mo., her first part, aged seven, was "Puck" in a dancing school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. After trooping with tent shows of Uncle Tom's Cabin, in which she played -'Little Eva," in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, she reached Manhattan...
...finds herself. "I have become convinced," the story went, "that if you took equal numbers of rich girls and of others in moderate circumstances, you would find among the latter infinitely more contentment, greater freedom, and truer happiness. . . . 'Are you happy?' I have asked so many well born and rich girls I know. Their answer has been invariably...
Unquestioned was that social Manhattan position into which Marjorie de Loosey ("Bubbles") Oelrichs was born. Her father, Charles de Loosey Oelrichs, though not well off, came from a wealthy family, was a brother of potent Manhattan Financier Hermann Oelrichs...
Architect Murphy was born in New Haven, has lived chiefly in Manhattan, has built many a western building after the western fashion. At Yenching with skillful adaptation of western structural standards to eastern esthetic principals he has designed a group of 45 buildings (29 of them already finished) which do no violence to the memory of the Manchu prince of whose summer-palace their grounds were once a part. The present Chinese government has retained Mr. Murphy for an extremely ambitious building program in Nanking, new Chinese capitol (TIME...