Word: gordon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instinctive good taste of her acting would so well have fitted her. Her association with Irving-with whom she played from 1878 to 1902-terminated in a quarrel which was never completely explained. Soon after they parted company, Terry became a grandmother and Bernard Shaw remarked: "When her son, Gordon Craig, became a father,*she said that no one would ever write plays for a grandmother. I immediately wrote Captain Brassbound's Conversion to prove the contrary...
...Gordon Craig, long before the death of his mother, had become a famous figure in Europe-first perhaps because of his affair with Isadora Duncan, whose affections had several of the attributes of a theatrical spotlight; then and more notably as a producer of plays and because of his superlative work as a scenic artist. He was making use of his artistry in a curious way last week. Dame Terry had requested her friends to wear no mourning to express an erroneous sorrow; she had written, "there is no death. What seems so is only transition." To emphasize this peaceful...
...German Hugo Kaulen ended his trip, 13 miles less than the distance to Kenbridge, Va., where Capt. Edmund W. E. Kepner of the U. S. Army landed his bubble. Capt. Kepner was unofficially adjudged, last week, to have brought the U. S. its third consecutive victory in the James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race, assuring permanent possession of the trophy...
...Leon Gordon, author of White Cargo, onetime actor in Brewster's Millions, Arsene Lupin, Raffles, was severely injured in an automobile accident in Sidney, Australia...
...Died. H. Gordon Duval, 35, publisher of The Club-Fellow (social chit-chat weekly); in Manhattan