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...Marion Cleveland Amen reminisced to a New York World-Telegram reporter: "It is possible for a baby to have a normal life in the White House, but it means quite a struggle for the White House mother. . . . My sister Esther [Mrs. W. S. B. Bosanquet of Marton-in-Cleveland, England] really was the White House baby. . . . It was she who was always eating the fancy soap in the baths that were a novelty even in the White House. She was just three when we were leaving. My father saw her all dressed to go and asked why she was going...
...Atop each fluted column was a pair of carved bulls athwart which lay a huge cedar ceiling beam. Windows and niches broke up the long walls; painted carvings enlivened them. Here came satraps, courtiers and tributaries for homage to the curled & perfumed King of Kings. Here probably lived Esther, Queen of Xerxes whom the Old Testament calls Ahasuerus. Here came all-conquering Alexander the Great who, at the urging of one of his women, it is told, set the palaces afire and saw their grandeur crumble into a dirt heap. Persia also crumbled...
MASEFIELD (John) Esther. A Tragedy adapted from the French of Racine...
MOORE (George) Esther Woters. Backstrip slightly chipped...
...staged by Blanche Yurka, with Esther Dale in the title role and 13 memorably explicit little settings by Norris Houghton, Carry Nation is an extremely interesting, somewhat wry portrait of a U. S. phenomenon. It reaches no climaxes, appears more like a piece by Herbert Asbury for the American Mercury than a play, but the amateur of Americana should get his money's worth from...