Word: clara
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...publisher's spring lists contain many a standard commodity. Mr. E. Phillips Oppenheim's vast museum now includes The Golden Beast (Little, Brown). Miss Ethel M. Dell submits A Man Under Authority (Putnam). Harvey O'Higgins has a successor to Julie Cane in Clara Barron (Harpers). Irvin Cobb's new tales, more pensive than usual, are all On an Island That Cost $24 (Doran). Katharine Haviland Taylor is out again, with Stanley Johns' Wife (Doran), and Albert Payson Terhune with Treasure (Harpers...
...England, France, Germany, Austria and Spain. In Berlin, portly opera singers were obliged to loiter over their beer all night or scramble out of bed long before dawn to warble into the microphone songs that were to be heard in the U. S. between 11 and midnight. Mme. Clara Novello-Davies, in Manhattan, and her son, Composer Ivan Novello, in London, simultaneously attempted to lead radio fanatics of the Western Hemisphere in singing "Auld Lang Syne," but it was a bad night and few got the tune. The stations heard most clearly by the U. S. were Lima, Buenos Aires...
Married. W. L. ("Young") Stribling, 21, famed light heavyweight pugilist, to Miss Clara Virginia Kinney, 19, brunet granddaughter of Judge Dupont Guerry (onetime President of Wesleyan College, Macon...
...Died. Clara Morris, 79, onetime emotional-tragedienne, for years a member of Augustin Daly's famed stock company, until her retirement in 1895 one of the most popular of American actresses; at New Canaan, Conn., of heart disease. Cried Sarah Bernhardt, after seeing a performance by Clara Morris as Camille: "Mon Dieu! This woman does not act, she suffers...
...Clara Zetkin, Editor of Die Gleichheit, organ of the International Socialist Woman's movement allied with the Spartacists, was expelled from her post when the Party Directorate took control of the paper...