Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...circumferenced by the ruins of King Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. A Mohammedan can enter and behold the golden urn in which repose two hairs from the beard of the True Prophet. A Christian may adore the stone on which Jesus found miraculously inscribed, the name of his Father In Heaven ("Shem"), by pronouncing which he worked miracles. Jews can see the place where Abraham was stayed by the Angel's hand from offering up Isaac. Nearby is the Coffin of Mohammed, adorned with 17 golden nails. It is written that when they all fall out the World...
Three Cheers. It is possible to be sane and to think that Will Rogers is not funny. There were moments in Three Cheers when he was being a little too much of a big brother to Dorothy Stone, for whose father, Fred, he had been persuaded to substitute; and there were other moments when he was too self-consciously ingenuous and stammering. Yet, as usual, his gags were good...
Aside from Will Rogers, the best thing in Three Cheers is Patsy Kelly, who fixes her beady and inspired eyes upon a comedian and sings "You're Beautiful." in a scratchy voice. Dorothy Stone dances nicely, but without the partnership of her father her talent even in this direction seems less than bewildering; as yet she has too little ability to be a star...
Born. To Mr. & Mrs. Jay Gould of Manhattan, a nine-pound daughter. Mrs. Gould (Lorraine Manville) inherited $9,000,000 from her father Thomas Manville, asbestos tycoon. Then she went on the stage, where she met vaudevillian Jay Gould. After their marriage, three years ago, they both left the stage...
Died. Lew Wallace, 70, Indianapolis barrister, nephew of the late General Lew Wallace, Hoosier author of Ben Hur; from a heart attack; in Indianapolis. Barrister Wallace's father was a law partner of President Benjamin Harrison. Ovid Butler, one of Barrister Wallace's grandfathers, founded Indiana's Butler University; Grandfather David Wallace was once Indiana's Governor...