Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Christened. Paul Joseph William Ziluca, great grandson of General Giuseppe Garibaldi, famed liberator of Italy. His father: Captain Joseph N. Ziluca, war veteran, engineer & architect of Greenwich, Conn. His mother: Donna Josephine Ziluca, sister of General Giuseppe Garibaldi of Stamford. His godfather: Sir Thomas Lipton...
Engaged. Oliver Malcolm Wallop, onetime Yale poloist, second son of the Earl & Countess of Portsmouth, of Barton House, Morchard Bishop, Devonshire, England; and Jean Moore, daughter of Edward Small Moore, Manhattan capitalist (cans, biscuits, railways, banks). At the death of his older brother in 1925, Young Wallop's father succeeded to the Earldom. Formerly he had been a Wyoming rancher, a naturalized U. S. citizen...
Died. The Rev. Francis James Finn, 70, able Catholic educator & author of boys' books, of Cincinnati. Father Finn's works include Claude Lightfoot, Ethelred Preston, That Football Game, Sunshine and Freckles...
...universal respect for the play abroad contrasted with the reactions which it induced in Manhattan theatre-goers. Something was the matter with the performance; partly, it seemed, the acting, partly the direction. A French soldier returns home on leave; his fiancée, who has been living at his father's home, no longer loves the soldier but she conceals this fact until after she has spent the night with him. In the morning, the soldier's father berates his son for a seduction; whereat the soldier berates in his father selfish and truculent senescence which so blatantly...
...fall, his astonishment is increased by the proximity of Consuelo. His way of expressing his daze is to say "Geez" many times (in throaty Theatre Guild English). There is, of course, an affair and there is a little accident. When Consuelo tells her twice-divorced mother and once-divorced father of her interesting condition, Father cries "Harlot!", Mother cries "Why didn't you tell me?" Only the dowager Mrs. Poole will accept erring granddaughter, riveting grandson-to-be, but Mrs. Poole's acceptance, one presumes, is sufficient for Manhattan. The veteran Henrietta Crosman does the fussbudgetty dowager...