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...looks were concerned, the Metropolitan has rarely introduced a singer so beguiling as Helen Jepson who took the part of the Pasha's wife. Born 27 years ago in Titusville, Pa., her first job was fitting corsets in a department store in Akron. Later selling phonograph records gave her a taste for opera which led to a scholarship at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music...
...Born in Lisbon, N. Y. 64 years ago, Dr. Stocking was educated at Amherst (1895), held his first pastorates in New Haven, Bellows Falls, Vt., Newtonville, Mass. He has been at St. Louis' Pilgrim Church for the last seven years. Tall, grizzled, genial, he is the father of four daughters to each of whom he gave the middle name Porter. Much in demand as a college preacher, Dr. Stocking has written numerous ethical-whimsical books for children (Query Queer, The Golden Goblet, Mr. Friend...
Most famed contemporary cinema performer of Oriental roles, Warner Oland was born in Umea, Sweden, reared in Boston. He arrived at his current specialty after a long stage career in Ibsen and Shakespearean roles which ended when he made his cinema debut in Jewels of the Madonna, with Theda Bara (1917). Thereafter he played in serials like The Violet Diamond of Daroon. His career as a Chinese started when he played Charlie Yong in East Is West (1922). For his first Chan picture he got $12,500. Now he gets $100,000 for three in a row. In private, although...
...Born, To the 13-year-old Denver girl to whom an abortion was denied last summer (TIME, Oct. 22); and to John W. Brewer, 38, who is now serving a 20 to 30 year sentence for raping the girl: a 7-lb. son; in Denver. Mother and babe were reported doing well...
Anatol Josepho is remembered as the "Smart-Immigrant-Who-Made-a-Million" with his Photomaton. Born in Omsk, Siberia, Josepho reached Manhattan with $30 in his pocket and a bee in his bonnet. He got imposing backing: venerable old Henry Morgenthau Sr., father of the Secretary of the Treasury, became chairman of the board of directors of Photomaton Corp., and Major General Robert Courtney Davis, onetime Adjutant General of the Army, became president of the company. Inventor Josepho got a check for a flat...