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Members of the circulation staff: Robert E. L. Strider, 2d, of Wheeling. West Virginia: Carl Dreyfus, Jr. of Boston, Gardner N. Stratton of Brookline. H. Bruce Ehrmann of Brookline, and Ernest M. fuller Jr. of South Orange, New Jersey...
...outline of the play revolves around a triangle plot among Kitty Brown, played by Jean Miles of Wellesley, and Bobby Brown, and Dierdre Lesving, played by Emile Dreyfus...
...excuse for what Longone offered. He promised first-rate opera, put on such ragged performances that it was often hard to believe that there had been any rehearsals. He presented young singers who were blatantly unqualified for the roles they were given. Blonde Jean Tennyson, wife of President Camille Dreyfus of Celanese Corp. of America, starred in Pagliacci, La Boheme, Faust. Rosalinda Morini, a local coloratura who sings off pitch, was the heroine in Traviata. One Mildred Gerber, a protegee of Alderman Jacob M. Arvey, trilled hesitantly as Lucia di Lammermoor. Though Chicago opera audiences are notably easy to please...
...prison more than a quarter-century before some newspaper friends persuaded a highly-placed official to listen to his story. Last session that listener, Illinois' Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, put through Congress a resolution to investigate Carter's claim that he was a "U. S. Dreyfus." Last week Oberlin Carter, still erect at 79, marched into a Chicago hotel room to present the case for vindication of his honor and recovery of his fortune to Wisconsin's Senator F. Ryan Duffy, as chairman of a sub-committee of the Senate Military Affairs Committee...
Died. Lieut.-Colonel Alfred Dreyfus, retired, 75, protagonist of France's most notorious cause cèleébre; after long illness (uremia); in Paris. In 1894 Captain Dreyfus, 35, first Jew on the French General Staff, was arrested on a charge of selling military secrets to Germany. Court-martialed, he was convicted of high treason on the basis of a secret dossier, which was later proved a forgery, and other scant evidence including the testimony of famed Handwriting Expert Alphonse Bertillon. Publicly degraded, Dreyfus was sentenced to Devil's Island for life. When it became apparent that...