Word: fornia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...California as a ranch developer. Almost forgotten became her husband, Gustav Modrzejewski,* in Poland. Her boy, then 15, went with her. The California ranch was a failure. Then there was opportunity to make her U.S. debut in Shakespeare, at San Francisco's Cali fornia Theatre. While she studied English, Ralph Modjeski played her Chopin's nocturnes on the piano. He had studied music under Josef Hofmann's father, and his playing brought out Shakespeare's poetical qualities for his mother. Her leading man was the late Maurice Barrymore. His three children, now famed players Ethel, Lionel...
Died. Charles Delano Henry, 84, Cali fornia banker, father-in-law of Nominee Herbert Clark Hoover; of a paralytic stroke; in Placerville, Calif...
...Appropriated $1,500,000 to fight the hoof and mouth disease in Cali- fornia and other Pacific Coast States...