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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Artist Arno was christened Curtis Arnoux Peters. He is a robust, dark fellow, as conservative in appearance and dress as a discreet haberdashery poster. In 1922 he graduated from the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn., where he was voted "Most Musical" and "In Worst with the Faculty." Then he took his banjo to Yale, found plenty of pianos there, alternately drew for the Yale Record and devised original syncopation. At the end of his freshman year he left college, subsequently studied at the Yale art school and Manhattan's Art Students League for a period of a month apiece...
...voice strained raw, his fists milling, a Negro evangelist towered above his wailing audience in the little Mount Olive (African Methodist Episcopal) Zion Church at Waterbury, Conn., last week. He rose to his toes and menaced the moaning Negroes with all the horrors of hell. Hysterical cries burst from the listeners: "That's right, preacher! Go on and preach, man! Amen, amen...
Married. Elizabeth Brite Shevlin of Manhattan, daughter of the late famed Yale Footballer Thomas L. Shevlin; to Paul Morton Smith, son of the present Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin, wife of the famed Manhattan banker; in Greenwich, Conn., secretly last April, when Mr. Smith was a Yale undergraduate...
...President Coolidge telephoned Governor Trumbull's mansion in Hartford, Conn., formally to congratulate his son John on the formal announcement of his engagement to marry Miss Florence Trumbull. It was Governor & Mrs. Trumbull's silver (25th) wedding anniversary...
Cartoonist Art Young of Wisconsin, Chicago, Manhattan, Paris and Bethel, Conn., drew some-of-the-first daily political cartoons and the first colored news supplements in the U. S., for the oldtime Chicago Inter-Ocean...