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...house. Love of music had made the cousins close friends. Mr. deCoppet in 1903 had organized the Flonzaley Quartet; Mr. Stebbins' grandfather, onetime president of the Stock Exchange, had been board chairman of the old Academy of Music. With this tradition and plenty of money made in Wall Street, Broker Stebbins invaded Broadway under the name of Laurence Rivers, a character from his favorite book, Malet's The Gateless Barrier. His first two productions. Merry Andrew and Maggie, The Magnificent, were both failures, though not expensive ones. Then came a fortunate meeting. A mutual friend introduced Producer Stebbins and Marc...
Married. Alicia Patterson, aviatrix daughter of Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson, divorced wife of James Simpson Jr.; and Joseph W. Brooks, broker, aviator, onetime (1909-10-11) All-American footballer (Colgate); in Manhattan...
Died. Knowlton Lyman ("Snake") Ames, 62, broker, president of Booth Fisheries Co., owner of the Chicago Journal of Commerce; by his own hand (shooting); in Chicago. Called "Snake" for his twisting style of running, he was one of Princeton's great football traditions, fullback on the late Walter Camp's first All-American team (1889). He was a second cousin of Ambassador Charles Gates ("Hell & Maria") Dawes. Recently he had been in bad health, had worried over finances. Last summer Gurnett & Co., Boston brokers, sued him for $324,561 plus interest...
...famed success. His grey eyes sparkled and his urbanity was undisturbed last week when he admitted that Laurence Rivers, Inc. had just closed a new play on the road, would have no further production plans until he found another worthy manuscript. Producer Stebbins will not return to being Broker Stebbins. His special partnership in deCoppet & Doremus is largely a matter of capital invested there. His main interest will still be Broadway, his hobby music...
Died. Louis G. Shields, 44, Manhattan broker (Shields & Co.) ; of pneumothorax; in Southampton...