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...world of music came Titta Ruffo, formerly of the Metropolitan Opera; Coe Glade of the Chicago Opera; Viennese Tenor Otto Fassell; Vera Schwarz of the Berlin State Opera. Harald Kreutzberg, Martha Graham, Patricia Bowman danced. Apelike Funnyman Dr. Rockwell and Weber & Fields excited laughter. There was deep-voiced DeWolf Hopper, always willing to do "Casey at the Bat." The Wallendas, whom John Ringling found in Cuba, performed on the high wire. The Six Bronetts clowned. From radio came the successful Sisters of the Skillet. From the screen came Taylor Holmes. There were acrobats and jugglers...
...stage, I worked alongside her interesting and brilliant aunt, Mrs. Marie Bankhead Owen, on the staff of the venerable Montgomery Advertiser. That was back in the days when the American stage had much of which it could be and was proud-such as John Drew, Henrietta Grossman, DeWolf Hopper, Frederick Warde, Rose Stahl, Otis Skinner, Mrs. Fiske and many others, most of whom have passed out, as the stage goes, and many of whom have passed on, as humanity yields its units to the touch of time. Mrs. Owen and I alternated for several years at writing for our paper...
...Both schools still cater to families of little money,* Kent proper sometimes takes pupils free. Last week, on "The Old Man's" 57th birthday, a testimonial dinner was given for him at the Hotel Commodore in Manhattan. Joined to honor him were the Church (Presiding Bishop James DeWolf Perry of the Protestant Episcopal Church), the Universities (Dean Christian Gauss, representing President John Grier Hibben of Princeton), Kent alumni, Kent parents & friends (including Vice President Charles W. Appleton of General Electric Co., President Frederick Paul Keppel of Carnegie Corp.). Many a guest was too old to have known, as a school...
...present chapel may at present afford sufficient size, but it is neither beautiful nor well-designed for the greatest usefulness, and is entirely unsuited as an expression of the truly warm glowing religion that could exist here, attracting students to it rather than sending them elsewhere. J. DeWolf Perry...
...Manhattan Rotarians, Actor William DeWolf Hopper, 72, famed for his readings of "Casey at the Bat" and for having had six wives, gave this reason for his long life: "I never smoked and never drank until I was twelve years...