Word: friends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Apollo--"Her Friend the King". Reviewed in this issue...
Possibly William Faversham was satisfied with "Her Friend the King", in which he is now playing at the Apollo theater, for it does give him an opportunity to perform three acts in the debonair fashion that becomes him so well. But the play can hardly be said to meet any other standards of taste. The manuscript might well have been a composite of the theater's most familiar scenes, for there is scarcely a situation that has not become painfully hackneyed through years of repetition; and their quality is not improved by the latest transmission. With such material the struggles...
...Professional opinion ranks next to him George Edmund de Schweinitz of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Medicine. Dr. de Schweinitz, 71 this week, is also the son of a bishop, in the Moravian Church. *Including his great and good friend Karl Sudhoff, also 79, world's leading historian of medicine, who traveled from Leipzig for the ceremonies...
Ishbel's "Engagement." Perceptibly reserved was Miss Ishbel MacDonald last week as she trotted in the wake of her tall, halo-headed sire. Perhaps she was repenting an exuberance. Jocularly, one morning, she had greeted the appearance of her father's middle-aged friend Lord Arnold with the cry, "Oh, look at the House of Lords!" Promptly and absurdly they were rumored engaged. Baron Arnold, British Paymaster General, is accompanying the MacDonald party at his own expense, has been mooted as the next British Ambassador at Washington-suspected of being a "Colonel House." Intensely embarrassed, especially by reports...
...colonel had sent the pictures to one of the tabloids for reproduction and enlargement-!" The facts, however, were not quite as stated by Variety. True, Charles Augustus Lindbergh had sent the snapshots to be developed. But he sent them, not to the Times but to his good and trusted friend Jesse S. Butcher, editor of the Times' feature news service. Honest Editor Butcher developed the negatives himself, did not offer to buy them, presented no bill. The cost was "about 20 cents...