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...became dresser for John Drew. Leaving Mr. Drew, he said that he would become an actor-not only an actor, a better actor than John Drew. He appeared with Fanny Rice in The Jolly Squire in 1892; three years later his own name was in headlines across the façade of the old Herald Square Theatre. He was playing in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson. He had intelligence, sensitiveness and a rare, nervous charm. He duplicated his success in London. He supported Mme. Simone in The Return From Jerusalem. At 28 he turned manager and introduced...
...hills. You have to change trains at Greensboro, a second-rate town (considering its advantages) where, dazzling and unexpected above an ill-kempt street lined with shabby buildings, a single white skyscraper (the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co., largest in the South, assets, $31,000,000) towers up, its façade handsome with carving, its superior ground-floor shops the heralds of Greensboro's delayed awakening...
Died. Prince Chao Fa Asdang, 34, heir presumptive to the Siamese throne; in Bangkok...
...exterior of the wing has been the result of an ingenuous engineering feat. There stood from 1822 to 1914 one of the most beautiful façades in America-that of the old U. S. Assay office. Business caused its destruction. Art has preserved it. Every stone of the façade was carefully numbered, transported to the museum. It has been reproduced as the South Façade of the American Wing...
...Christmas, 1723, two persons were baptized in the river at Germantown, Fa. They were the first American converts to the Dunkard faith, now celebrating its bicentennial...