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...would have filled life with sufficient eventfulness for most mortals, for few men have been more lionized than the peerless conductor of Philadelphia's orchestra. But for Mme. Samaroff, the shock of exciting events began before her birth. A dozen European races mingled to produce her, and she was born in San Antonio, Tex. Thence her path has been paved with incidents, even to the prospect of pronouncing upon her divorced husband's orchestral reading as he leads an orchestra to which her present employer, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, and his son-in-law, Edward W. Bok, have been...
...came ashore last week from the Leviathan. The hours had been made even more harassing by the persistence of news-writers. Since the Moscow chess tournament TIME, Dec. 7) the market for chess news has developed rapidly. In particular the persistent writers wanted to know "Why?" Why had Capablanca-born with chess strategy "engraved by dry point upon his infant brain"-been defeated by two Russian "unknowns"? He who had declared "Chess-it is too simple" -why had he been driven to a draw by Lasker and two others? Why had he finished third in the tourney ? At first...
Hanford MacNider is 36. He is a banker, a soldier, a Harvard graduate. He hails from Mason City, Iowa, where he was born, and worked in a bank until he went to war. He served in the A. E. F. from Second Lieutenant to Lieutenant Colonel, at Chateau Thierry and Soissons, and after the War went back to Mason City and banking. His "buddies" (comrades) elevated him to State Commander of the American Legion, then to National Commander, because he had their welfare at heart...
...Author of Pins for Wings, Snickery Nick, A Book of Love, and numerous versifications of poems translated into English by Chinese scholars; noted Brooklyn-born playwright...
...Born. To Mae W. Marsh, famed cinema actress, wife of one Louis Lee Arms, Pasadena newspaper man, a son (7 lb.), at Pasadena...