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In 1895, returning from a trip to Alaska, Owney trotted up the gangplank of the steamship Victoria, bound for Japan. There, the Emperor decorated him with a medal. Owney continued around the world by way of the Suez Canal and the Azores. All along the way he was met by...
Plaster falling from the ceiling was not enough to drive out a houseful of Yale men -- not the first time anyway. But the second time that the ceilings started to distribute themselves over the floors, it was time to move.
At Manhattan's Metropolitan where she sang from 1903 to 1914 Fremstad was known as one of the greatest artists and one of the most difficult of all prima donnas. She had a proud, heroic type of beauty, a graceful swinging stride, beautifully molded arms which seemed to shape...
The Blue Widow (by Marianne Brown Waters, produced by Lee and J. J. Shubert) is a repetitive comedy about a strumpet who can narrow and widen her eyes. Situation: into a country-houseful of friendly weekenders is insinuated a deceased playwright's baby-faced mistress, representing herself as a...
The embarrassed handling which Playwright Glaspell and her husband give this houseful of agitated folk is typical of much of Miss Glaspell's previous dramatic writing. Action and conversation are carried on by a monotonous series of dialogs. Except for two moments-the scene in which Stephen and his...