Word: hampdens
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...conservative A. F. of L.'s United Textile Workers joined in concerted action. Lawrence police refused permission for the National unionists to convene on the common, arrested seven agitators. But the United Workers were allowed to convene at will. At Boonton, Dover and Paterson (N. J.), Hampden (Mass.) and Philadelphia, members of the well-organized American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers, A. F. of L. affiliate, struck, but their leaders agreed to accept 35% to 40% reductions in wages in return for a guarantee of the 1929 scale...
...Fabyan & Co. (wholesale drygoods). For her father, Lillie Bliss was hostess and housekeeper, until he died in 1911. She had learned kindness and sociability in this career, and in 1912 she stepped not only into wealth but popularity. Artists such as the late Arthur B. Davies, actors like Walter Hampden, Ruth Draper, Ethel Barrymore, and many a musician attended her formal, wineless soirees. By 1913 she was helping organize the historic exhibition in Manhattan's Squadron "A" Armory which introduced a continent to Modernism. One of the earliest collectors of modern paintings, in 1929 she was co-founder (with...
Colonial--"The Admiral Crichton" Sir James M. Barrie plus Walter (Hamlet) Hampden plus Fay Bainter...
...Admirable Crichton was revived last week with capable Walter Hampden as the cosmic butler, childlike and charming Fay Bainter as Lady Mary Lasenby. The opening was fresh and amusing with a message from Playwright Sir James Barrie read by William Gillette (first Crichton in the U. S.). But modern spectators, accustomed to tight playwrighting, could not help feeling that Acts II and IV are, while pleasant, structurally useless...
...staged in most respects. The scenery is superb, and small fault can be found with most of the interpretations of the cast. One wonders, however, whether Turgenev might not be a little shocked to see the part of the country doctor (played by Cecil Yapp, who was "Rageneau" in Hampden's "Cyrano") so obviously burlesqued. We doubt very much whether the author intended to see it clowned. The principal parts are admirably played by Mme. Nazimova, Earl Larrimore, and James Todd...