Word: friends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shubert-Apollo--"Her Friend the King", William Faversham handicapped by weak plot and lines...
...crowded memorial chapel, his coffin stood covered by autumn leaves overlaid with roses. Beside it, the Cross of the Legion of Honor lay on a plush cushion. Around it stood Architects Cass Gilbert, William Adams Delano, Chester Holmes Aldrich; Banker Thomas William Lament, Sculptor John Flanagan, many another notable, friend, relation. They sang "Rock of Ages," composed 100 years ago by Architect Hastings' grandfather. Someone recited Shelley's "Ode to a Skylark...
...Gates is a close friend of Bishop Manning. Short, round, bespectacled, 63, with plump, mild face and greyish head, he dislikes to be called high-church, prefers "oldfashioned Episcopalian." He has been head of the parish of the Intercession more than 25 years. Born in Gardner, Mass., he is a graduate of Amherst (nine years before Calvin Coolidge), the General Seminary, St. Stephen's College. He is known as a good preacher, scholar of church architecture, president of the Sanctity of Marriage Society which seeks to keep divorced persons from remarrying in the Church, 32nd-degree Mason, national chaplain...
...professions. It is precarious, remuneration is very low, one's position is, as a rule, reduced by old age, and of all the brilliant things a journalist may write none will be remembered permanently. Although I have had some success in journalism. I agree with the verdict my friend, John Morley,* rendered when he spoke of me as having had a squandered life." Twinkling, he added: "Any man is a damned fool who can work in bed and doesn...
Thurston is now Houdini. He describes his tricks, but never explains them. His most sensational "illusion" was chopping off a friend's head. Because women fainted he never repeated it. He is contemptuous of Oriental "magic." Out of three thousand fakirs he examined in India, not one had even heard of the rope trick. (A rope is thrown into the air, is mysteriously suspended while a boy climbs up it, disappears.) The easiest people to fool, says Thurston, are scientists, men-of-letters, psychologists. The hardest are lawyers and preachers because "they do not lose their poise" when invited...