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...heart attack; in Manhattan. Famed chiefly for his role of Svengali in Du Maurier's Trilby (1895), he played for years on Broadway. One of the founders of the Actors' Equity Association, he was an early member of the Lambs' Club and the Catholic Actors' Guild of America. His first wife, Alice Evans, died in 1919. In 1928 he secretly married Kathryn Alberta Riley, 37, who had nursed him back to health. In 1920 Lackaye paid a visit to John J. McGraw, during which it was claimed he insulted Baseballer McGraw. Lockaye said that McGraw...
...Supreme Court, found that Federal economy measures have reduced his retirement pay from $20,000 to $10,000 a year. To the Broad Street office of Richard Whitney, President of the New York Stock Exchange, went bald, spindly Author Chester Werntz ("Chet") Shafer, Grand Diapason of the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers, nonsensical organization of men who, as youngsters, used to pump wind for church organs. Grand Diapason Shafer wanted to consult Pumper Whitney about two shares of Burma Corp. Ltd. ("Burma Lead") which he had bought at $5.50 for the Guild on a "hot tip" in 1929. Last...
...Needlework Guild of America, Inc. Philadelphia...
...immortalize them, chiefly through agents John Robert Powers and Walter Thornton, who collect a commission for being in touch with artists. Counting on their own touch, 300 of Manhattan's 2,000 models-men, women & children-last week broke with the agents, organized a co-operative Models' Guild, complete with lounging rooms...
...modeling life of a girl is about four years. The Guild's success will depend on its ability to find new girls eventually to displace its present members, to give artists what they want...