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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Date Line eastward in 1917, he fell to thinking about the phenomenon. He noticed that it had made him feel blithe of spirit, hopeful. When he reached Chicago, he wrote in his notebook: "I have made a greater discovery than any man now living?perhaps it is the greatest discovery of all time...
...Siena; Lippo Memmi and Brenna of Simone de Martino influence; Giotto, Ghirlandajo, Botticelli, del Sarto of the Florentine; Luini of the Milanese; Romano and Signorelli of the Ferrarese; Carlo Crivelli, Antonello, Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Palma, Lotto, del Piombo, Bonifazio and Paolo Veronese of the Venetian. The Venetians enjoy the greatest representation...
Died. John Drew, 73, called last week by his nephew John Barrymore "The world's greatest actor" at San Francisco, Calif.; of rheumatic fever. As death approached, Mr. Drew said: "This is but another act and I am playing my part." In November, 1853, in the Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphia, a son was born to one John Drew, an Irish character comedian, and his extremely versatile actress-wife Louisa Lane Drew. The child, christened John, had a sister, Georgie.* Both grew up in the repertory atmosphere of the old Arch Street Theatre, subsequently managed by their mother...
Tilden's Loss. Famed William T. Tilden II, said after the Wills-de Alvarez match: "The last set was the greatest ever played between two women...
That he became perhaps the greatest painter ever born of U. S. parents was due in part to inheritance from a father whose very integrity overruled his prejudice against what, in 1870 when John Sargent was 14, was regarded as a profession not quite respectable...