Word: h
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conclusive are these figures to "an American" that, last week, potent H. Gordon Selfridge, U. S. founder-owner of London's first and greatest "department store," promptly ordered extra advertising space in leading English dailies, commenced to "boom" and "sell" the tunnel idea...
...Woman of Affairs is Iris March, Michael Aden's "white, so white" lady, now called Diana Merrick to fool Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays, who objected to The Green Hat. As a protector of public morals, Mr. Hays will no doubt shiver when the loose ring, symbol of Miss Merrick's character, slips gently from the tapering hand of Greta Garbo, flung sideways on a sofa which she does not occupy alone. Like Author Arlen and unlike Will H. Hays, Miss Garbo and John Gilbert are among the most conspicuous romanticists of this epoch. Each knows...
...years the Metropolitan Opera Com pany has talked of a new opera house. So, but for a lesser time, has the Chicago Civic Opera Company. In Manhattan, however, Chairman Otto H. Kahn of the Metropolitan directors was thwarted in his choice of site, whereas in Chicago, President Samuel Insull let nothing interfere. In consequence when the Chicago opera ended its home season last week, it ended also its residence in the Auditorium which 40 years ago was dedicated by President Benjamin Harrison and Vice President Levi P. Morton, with incidental music by Adelina Patti. Romeo et Juliet had been...
Married. Henry Huddleston Rogers Jr., brother of Mrs. Millicent Rogers Ramos (onetime Countess Salm von Hoogstraeten) and son of Col. Henry H. Rogers, onetime Standard Oil partner of John D. Rockefeller; to Virginia Lincoln, daughter of Dr. William R. Lincoln of Cleveland; in Cleveland...
Died. William Sidney Rossiter, 67, census expert, president since 1916 of the Rumford Press;* of heart disease; at Concord, N. H...