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...Champion Horseshoe Pitcher of Congress," he defeated his Democratic opponent in the last Congressional election by nine votes. Died. Frederick Benjamin Haviland, 63, music publisher; of pneumonia developed from influenza; in Manhattan. Learning the business from the late Oliver Ditson, he founded a firm with the late Songwriter Paul Dresser ("On the Banks of the Wabash," which they published), brother of Novelist Theodore Herman Dreiser. During his life Publisher Haviland sold over ten million copies of songs in the U. S.; at the peak of his business he sold them at the rate of $45,000 a month. A best...
Stepping Sisters (Fox) is a frantic little farce, derived from the comic strips via Broadway, where a play by the same name enjoyed an almost surreptitious run a year ago. The fun in Stepping Sisters largely at the expense of a chorus girl turned socialite (Louise Dresser), is of the "Bringing up Father" variety. Two of the socialite's onetime confreres?one of them (Jobyna Howland) turned tragedienne the other (Minna Gombell) still a blowzy trouper who swaggers with her hips-help stage an allegory...
...rest by recalling that this was not the first Gandhi-George V meeting. In 1901 the Indian community of Durban, South Africa welcomed the then Duke & Duchess of York, now Their Majesties, with a reception at which Lawyer M. K. Gandhi made the principal address. In 1901 impotent Ad- dresser Gandhi was bedight in the latest British fashion. Last week potent St. Gandhi created a sensation by leaving the royal teaparty before no other guest. "Personally I have very little time for social functions," said he. "Both Their Majesties were charming. I also liked the Prince of Wales...
From Berlin he went to London, then to Paris. He made himself valuable to William Randolph Hearst by flying all over Europe with commissions to buy antiques. He did not know much about antiques, but he learned quickly, did his job well. Almost as flashy a dresser as Publisher Roy Howard, Frank Earl Mason was known as the only correspondent who ever travelled with a shoe trunk...
Lawyer Samuel Untermyer, chief legal brains of Tammany Hall, is an elegant dresser, always sports an orchid bontonniere. He usually makes his opponents in court look shabby. Well does Counsel Seabury, who dresses sombrely, almost clerically, know this. When Lawyer Untermyer was defending District Attorney Grain last spring, on the first morning of the trial, Counsel Seabury and his young assistants marched into the courtroom tricked out in morning coats, with sponge-bag trousers and pink carnations, looking like the groomsmen of a wedding party...