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Yates's mother, Elizabeth Brunton Yates, was Dickens' favorite actress. Yates, who was born in 1831, was a clerk in the General Post Office when he turned to spare time journalism in 1852. He wrote for Chambers' Journal, the Daily News and Dickens' Household Words, meanwhile trying to persuade London newspapers to let him do a gossip column for them. In 1855 a new paper called the Illustrated Times let him try this new experiment in journalism. It was so successful that within three years Yates was invited to edit a new paper, Town Talk...
...minutes or so it was like old times in London's Stepney. Homes along Brunton's Place, Raby Street and Salmon Lane were evacuated, buses were stopped. Sick animals from the People's Dispensary had been moved to a safer place, and in the old air-raid shelter near the Church of Our Lady Immaculate, the neighbors were gathered once more waiting in awful suspense for the detonation of a German bomb. Just as they hoped, the big bang never came. In an operation as delicate as brain surgery, London's No. 2 Bomb Disposal Squad...
...bright sands and in the bright water at Cape Gris Nez (grey nose), France, were, last week, the U. S. Zittenfeld twins, 15. There, too, were the English Misses Ivy Hawke, Joan Brunton. Molly Parker and Connie Gilhead-channel swimmers all. There, too, fattest, most bulbous, most famed, was Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston (240 lbs.), who last year remained afloat for 54 hours in a Bronx pool, finally being pulled out in a state of limb-swollen collapse. Worthy water-mates for her roamed also about the beach-an Egyptian, black and gigantic, named Ishak Helmy and a German whose name...
...Bushway (captain) Clark Hodder, P. W. Chase, P. F. Pond, r.d., l.d., Smith, Dowling, Daly H. M. Bohlen, P. W. Chase, D. J. Danker, J. W. Hammond, l.d. r.d., O'Leary, Lewis, Green, Henry W. D. Cantillon, T. D. Blake 2d., J. J. Mapes, g. g., Donahue, Brunton...
Work on the stage for the "Siegfried" production in the Stadium on June 4 has been progressing rapidly under Mr. Loomis Taylor, stage manager of the German operas at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, Mr. Fred Taus, chief electrician of the Metropolitan, and Mr. R. F. Brunton, of the Boston Opera House. The structure will be completed by next Tuesday, according to present plans. Two carloads of scenery and properties, including the large dragon, are already here, and the remainder of the stage settings will arrive soon. The artists are due in Cambridge on Tuesday and Wednesday...