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Died. Frank Jenners Wilstach, 63, censor of U. S. cinemadvertising & publicity, wit, bibliophile, author, compiler of similes, sometime business manager of DeWolf Hopper, Sothern & Marlowe. Mrs. Leslie Carter, William Faversham; of influenza; in Manhattan. His famed Dictionary of Similes sprang out of his disgust for the phrase, "The news spread like wildfire." "Wildfire," he fumed, "is a disease of sheep. It is also a bolt of sheet lightning. I'm going to end this...
Norman Robertson of the Canadian Foreign Office and tutor in Government at Adams House in place of Professor Bruce C. Hopper will be the guest of honor at the Adams House dinner Monday evening and afterwards he will speak in the upper common room on the London Economic Conference where he served as a member of the Canadian delegation...
...Hamlet might suffer by the absence of the melancholy Dane, but the loss would be as nothing compared to that which Government 18 will suffer by the absence of Professor Bruce Hopper. Built on rather shifting ground and lacking satisfactory reading, the course has revolved almost entirely around the personality of the lecturer, and students have flocked to it in ever increasing numbers to hear one of Harvard's most fascinating speakers. But, this year Hopper is off hobnobbing with the "little brothers" of the Russian steppers and Government 18 is in the hands of others...
...delivery next month the sheet-iron will be distributed at cost to Argentine wheat farmers to wall in their sprouting fields. The dread locusts in the hungry hopper stage will come hopping into the sheet-iron, hop short, pile up in rustling drifts. Workmen will rake them up, burn them in oil or sack them for sale to the Department of Agriculture Defense. The dried and sacked locusts will be sold abroad as fertilizer...
After six more years, she played there again, for $1,600. By this time, Marie Dressier had had time to get married-to a handsome ticket seller named Hopper, from whom she was later separated -and to become a celebrated comedienne. She had played with Lillian Russell in Giroflé Girofla, with Joe Weber in Higgledy-Piggeldy, with Sam Bernard in a burlesque of Romeo & Juliet, distinguished herself as Flo Honeydew in The Lady Slavey. After an unsuccessful engagement in London, she discovered a one-cylinder farce called Tillie's Night mare, played it in Manhattan for two years...