Word: capes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dramatized version of Joseph C. Lincoln's Cape Cod novel, "Shavings", has been so successfully presented by the Boston Stock Company in the past that it has become the regular Thanksgiving-week play at the St. James. If it has always been as skilfully done as it was Monday night, its popularity is not surprising; as a pleasing, easy-going, rather placid performance it was entirely satisfactory. As everyone knows, there is little or no excitement involved in "Shavings"; there are several passages of not too heavy pathos, but on the whole it runs along at a charming level...
...Sisters of Charity was modeled after the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent, France. The Sisters embrace Charity, in whose arms they live and die. They vow chastity and bind themselves to obedience. They care for the sick and poor. Their dress is black, covered with a short cape. Their white muslin cap, with a crimped border, has a black crepe band, is fastened under the chin...
...only a fraction of the numerous invitations they had received. The Daily Mail, Rothermere daily, applauded their decision, recalling "the Imperial Conference of 1907, when the late Sir Wilfrid Laurier, then Canadian Premier; the late Premier Louis Botha of South Africa; and the late Dr. Leander Starr Jameson of Cape Colony were simultaneously ill from over-banqueting...
Died. Paul J. Rainey, 45, big-game hunter, explorer, cinema photographer, on the S. S. Saxon, going from Southampton to Cape Town, of a stroke of paralysis. The first man to hunt lions with dogs, he once killed 27 lions in 35 days...
DOCTOR NYE-Joseph C. Lincoln -Appleton ($2.00). When Doctor Nye came back to North Ostable his return and the reasons for it offered a perennial bonne bouche for all the gossips of Cape Cod, Why, the man had embezzled a church fund and gone to jail for it (and it was lucky his poor wife had died just before he was found out). How Doctor Nye rehabilitated himself against heavy odds-how he protected two young star-crossed lovers in spite of their warring families-how he finally established his innocence even in the eyes of his pompous brother...