Word: companions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reburied. Charles S. Gilpin, Negro actor (Emperor Jones), buried May 12 but disinterred for more impressive burial in a silver-mounted coffin case, with chanting and eulogies. Said Actor Jesse A. Shipp (Green Pastures), oldtime fishing companion of Gilpin: "We have been criticized for disturbing the dead, but our friend was buried near a railroad track where the earth rumbled, and his bones could not rest in peace...
...Europe on President Wilson's Wartime Committee on Public Information; who after the War was Public Relations Counsel for President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk of Czechoslovakia; who with publicity man Edward L. Bernays, conducted a publicity campaign for the independence of Lithuania. The Havana Post and its evening companion, the Telegram, offered an outlet for Byoir's energy, his knack for diplomacy, his natural urge for influence. He bought the Post and Telegram from Rafael R. Govin, publisher of El Mundo, principal Cuban daily. The same day, says legend, he refused an offer and a profit...
There is no library or reference book as handy as the worn and scribbled text book, which has been your companion on and off campus. Can you think of any thing which would be as graphic a commentary on you college life as the notes and names you have jotted on the margins and covers of these books." To what other books have you granted such intimacy of thought" Provost Penniman of the University of Pennsylvania follows this thought with his remark. "I know of no book that can be more properly valued as an 'association book' than the textbook...
Married. Henry H. Sprague, 72, inventor of the Sprague gas meter, president of Sprague Meter Co. of Bridgeport, Conn.; and his nurse-companion, Hattie Magness, 33, of Forrest City...
...scene occurs in the fatal room itself with Mr. Stromberg?acted by cinema villain Roy D'Arcy (The Merry Widow) ?lying near death from a gunshot wound. Grouped about him are his henchmen and his beauteous blonde girl-friend Babette Marshall, whose part is taken by the suntanned companion of the late Gambler Rothstein, Inez Norton, a stroke of showmanship calculated to add to the play's veracity. Mr. Stromberg expires after exhorting his minions to "treat her square, treat her square...