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Booth in Blackface. From 1850 to 1880 minstrelsy was the biggest thing in the U.S. theatre. Famed players like Edwin Forrest, Charlotte Cushman, William Macready and Edwin Booth were hard put for audiences in any town where "cullud opera" was playing. In 1850 the great Booth himself gave a blackface performance at Bel Air, Md. P. T. Barnum once corked his own face and appeared in such early favorites as Zip Coon, The Raccoon Hunt, Gittin' Up Stairs. Stephen Foster wrote his masterpieces for minstrels. John Philip Sousa, Gentleman Jim Corbett and George M. Cohan's father...
...Tuesday afternoon, June 29, the Navy Communications Wives Club enjoyed a tour of several old Boston homes on Beacon Hill. The first place they visited was the lovely home of Mrs. Robert Cushman on Mt. Vernon Street. Mrs. Cushman then accompanied the group around Louisburg Square and on to the Women's City Club of Boston homes...
Ashley Carter's fine flinging shackled the Adams baseballers as Kirkland registered a 7 to 2 triumph. Carter's efforts were added by the stickwork of Dick Karb and Sherm Poland, while Frank Cushman shone at the plate for the Gold Coasters...
...Washington 70 fantastic hats assembled in WPB's huge board room. Under the hats sat the leading ladies of the fashion press, from Carmel Snow of Harper's Bazaar to Ladies' Home Journal's Wilhela Cushman. The women's editors had been specially summoned from New York, Boston and Philadelphia by the chief of WPB's clothing section, astute Merchant Harold Stanley Marcus, executive vice president of Dallas, Tex.'s famed Neiman-Marcus store, to hear what the Government wanted done about women's & children's clothes...
Results of yesterday's preliminaries are as follows: 120-lb. Petite defeated Golub; 145, Kameese defeated Gibson, Reilly defeated Reed; 155, Webster defeated Sporon-Fiedler, Parish defeated Ditmars; 165, Weeks defeated Ellis, Hallisey defeated Thompson, Werk defeated Weeks, Bartlett defeated Hinton, Richardson defeated Cushman, and Davis; 175, Robinson defeated Moore, D'Autrement defeated Boardman; heavyweight, McAffrey defeated Pearlstein...