Word: forrester
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan; of heart failure. He was largely responsible for the irrigation, transportation and agricultural development of the Texas Gulf coast and lower Rio Grande valley. Last year he supported the Hoover ticket when his fellow Democrats refused to take his advice on Farm Relief. Died. Mrs. Mary J. Forrest Fontaine, 84, sister of the famed Confederate Generals Nathan Bedford, Jesse, and Jeffry Forrest; in Dallas, Tex. Died. Mrs. Margaret Stevens, 94, onetime Civil War hospital worker, a founder of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union,* at Pricetown, Ohio. She had six brothers (and six sisters) who said they never...
...Composer Forrest's La Dame aux Camélias will be the only First-Performance of the Chicago season, with Mary Garden and Charles Kackett in the leads...
...nobody's business." She did not hurry out to Chicago for the great opening night, having contracted to sing in Philadelphia and Manhattan first. Her latest enthusiasm is one of Mr. Insull's "office boys," a young man named Hamilton Forrest who, unbeknownst to Mr. Insull, composed an opera and threw himself, as many other youths have done but without his languid charm, upon Miss Garden's bounty. "He is di-vine!" she says, kissing her fingertips as she has seen the French do. "And 7 discovered him! I have done as much for French composers...
...Anne Forrest (recovered from her motor crash of last fortnight) facilely creates the calcimined aura of a midway strumpet and Norman Foster's Bobbie is sufficiently naif. But the emotions and events of William R. Doyle's drama are all obvious and hackneyed. Simplicity without beauty makes for mediocrity...
...Anne Forrest, actress, about to open in Manhattan in Carnival, was last week hospitalized in Hartford, Conn. Cause: a limousine-taxicab collision. Said she: "I'd rather have had my arms and legs broken than have this happen to my face...