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...Hawash, a duchy of 1,600,000 acres in extent. But if he had plans to exploit Abyssinia, they came to naught. He returned to the U. S. and had a home at Mt. Vernon, N. Y., still maintaining his interests in Mexico. In 1903 he had married Ida Lefferts Sherwood, and at his death left her and four sons, Guillermo Enrique, Jr., Carlos Sherwood, Porfirio Diaz and Sherwood. His death leaves few men living who have played so gaily, freely for the stakes of business and statecraft -Zaharoff and d'Annunzio, perhaps...
Gabriele d'Annunzio: "I explained my absence from Ida Rubenstein's performance of my opera Phaedre by writing her the following letter: ' To my other tribulations I must now add a serious ailment in one eye. But in the painful obscurity I can still imagine your face, and my miserable imperfection is consoled by the perfection of your art. Gabriele...
...bill backed by the National Security League to make instruction in the United States Constitution compulsory in the schools has been adopted by California, which is the twenty-second state to pass the measure. The states which have enacted the bill are: Gal., Del., Ma., Ida, Ill., la., Mass., Mich., Minn., Nev., N. H., N. J., N. M., N. C., Ohio, Ore., R. I., S. D., Tenn., Tex., Utah...
Died: Mrs. I. V. Taylor (Ida Vernon), actress, 80, in Sheldon, Vt. Her first part was in A Midsummer Night's Dream, played at the Boston Theatre in 1856. She was a friend of Edwin Booth, who left her a legacy at his death. Later she played with Mrs. Fiske and William Hodge. Her best remembered plays were East Lynne, which she played for 120 nights in Richmond, and The Two Orphans...
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