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...after the ambition to be an actor was instilled by his first visit to a theatre- Lucien Guitry in Amants. Famed for his portrayal of Dr. Moriarty in Sherlock (1907), he was a member in good standing of the Paris pre-War esthete set, friend of Picasso, Apollinaire, Max Jacob. Forgotten by his public when the War was over, he worked his way up in bit parts, made his cinema debut in Gap Perdu (1930). U. S. audiences have seen him as the father in Poll de Carotte, in the French version of Les Miserables...
...Besides the fact that he makes a specialty of snow, Etcher Young is remarkable in that he is probably the only well-known artist who was once in the restaurant business. Born Charles Jacob Jung in Bavaria 55 years ago, Artist Young was taken as an infant to Manhattan, followed his father into the catering trade, was manager for 22 years of a newshawks' and politicians' restaurant in Manhattan's Chambers Street. Pink & white, still professionally appreciative of good cooking, Artist Young has his studio in the basement of his Weehawken Heights, N. J. home, gets from...
Among rich Catholic laymen, private chapels are not unusual. John Jacob Raskob has one at Hartefield Manor in Maryland; devout Mrs. Nicholas Brady has chapels in her homes in Rome and Manhasset, Long Island. But according to Canon 1205, Section 2 of the Roman Catholic Church, only "popes, royal personages, cardinals, bishops and abbots'' may be buried inside a Catholic church. As his church began to rise, Layman MacManus asked, and got, permission in the form of a papal rescript granting him and his family the extraordinary right to be laid away in it. The MacManus church, called...
Long on bad terms with its passengers, the Long Island speedily found itself in a first-class rumpus. Instigator was a little textile salesman named Jacob Abelson who commutes daily over the eleven miles from Jamaica to Manhattan. When the agent refused to sell him a ticket at the lowered rates, angry little Jacob Abelson got aboard without one, told the conductor who requested 34?. "According to the new ruling the fare should be. 23? But I'm willing to pay you 25?. Do you want it?" Flabbergasted, the conductor argued weakly, gave in as the other passengers began...
Charles W. Eliot, 2nd '20, Executive Director of the National Resources Committee, a graduate of the School, and, by virtue of his position, perhaps the most influential man in the field today, and Jacob L. Crane, Jr., President of the American City Planning Institute, and also a former student of the School, were asked as eminent members of the profession to give their views on the proposed abolition...