Word: boyds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...authors (Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson) owe no moderate debt to the cast for a performance that rubs elbows with perfection. Louis Wolheim (Hairy Ape) plays the drunken captain; William Boyd, the sergeant; and Leyla Georgie, a newcomer, the girl. Mr. Wolheim has the toughest face in the American Theatre, the toughest part as Captain Flagg, and he blends them irresistibly. The remainder of the company seems a superb selection. The play with any other cast would smell too sweet...
Last week were held the last two Courts of the season. At them the following Americans were introduced into the presence of Their Majesties: the Misses Anne Boyd, of Georgia; Sylvia Curtis, of Boston; Sarah Mellon, of Pittsburgh, niece of the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury; Rosamond Reed, daughter of David A. Reed, U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania; Esther Harrison Rowland, of Philadelphia; Frances Lindon Smith, of Boston; Mary Treadwell, of Washington; Mrs. Warren C. Fairbanks, of Chicago; Mary Frost, of California; Edith Ivins, of New York; Dorothy Greene, of Washington; Frances Marion Miller, of New York; Hildreth Scott...
...prefect" system in assiduous loyalty to the English manner. The Hill School was for many years the intimate home of the boys of the late John Meigs, and very particularly of "Mrs. John." It is now under the more formal (and perhaps more efficient) direction of the Rev. Boyd Edwards. Lawrenceville is the bailiwick of Mather A. ("Bot") Abbott, a man who acts as he looks and looks as he acts?vigorous. He has taught Latin at Groton and coached crew at Yale. Exeter, biggest of the lot, is guided by the sweet sternness of Lewis Perry, a Williams College...
...Irish artistic immigrants in America are many?and it is astonishing how quickly they become acclimated. Take Ernest Boyd, for example, whose literary influence has caused no mean flutter in American criticism, or the Hacketts, or John Butler Yeats, whose death last year took from us one of the most delightful personalities of Greenwich Village, or Dudley Digges and J. M. Kerrigan, actors both from the Dublin boards. Of all these, the most thoroughly of the spirit and heart of Ireland seems to me to be Padraic Colum himself, looking for all the world like an elf, the best modern...
Died. Federico Boyd, onetime President of the Republic of Panama; after a sudden collapse, in Manhattan. He was a correspondent for The New York Times at the time the Republic was founded. His father, an American of Scotch ancestry, went to 'Central America during the gold rush. A son and daughter survive. The son's wife is Mrs. Elizabeth Boiling Boyd, niece of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson...