Word: jeffersons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also state that Mr. Henderson would not care to be styled plain "Henderson." I cannot see why he should object to that because that is the highest dignity. We do not speak of Mr. Shakespeare or Mr. Byron or Mr. Washington and Jefferson, but simply use their names...
...feud between two Lancashire mill owners, Messrs. Jefferson and Mosscrop, an untoward romance between their respective offspring, Rosie and Reggie, Silas P. Mallinson, an American inventor, whose ingenious little device enables Owner Jefferson to turn the tables, as the saying is, upon Owner Mosscrop,--are the well worn cogs on which this obsolete old piece of dramatic machinery heavily revolves. Needless to say, Owner Jefferson bluntly refuses to countenance the romance, but the combined efforts of Owner Mosscrop who undergoes a sudden reformation of character, of Son Reggie who announces bumptiously that he is full of "grit and determination...
...Clive, as Jefferson, is of, course, very funny, and Charles Vane, as Mosscrop, contributed a genuine bit of acting. But the play was not redeemed by anyone. It is a pity that Inventor Mallinson could not have perfected a few ingenious devices for the plot as well as for the cotton mills about which it centers
...Author. Being at the head of his publisher's publicity department, modest Barry Benefield occupies a strategic but embarrassing position. Strategic, because he can refuse to let more be known of himself than that he was born in Jefferson, Tex., went to school and college in "that prodigious state", worked on The Dallas News and The New York Times, had short stories in Scribner's, Collier's and other magazines. Embarrassing, because he is obliged to tout his own work for the good of his employers, and to send out pictures of a countenance, whose ascetic air he would denounce...
...York City. She was the Elsie Janis of Civil War soldier-entertainment. After the War, she supported Edwin Booth and others of the renowned Ford's Theatre Stock Company in Baltimore. For 19 years she was employed by the late Charles Frohman. She supported Charlotte Cushman, Joseph Jefferson, Edwin Booth, Maude Adams, John Drew, William Gillette, Otis Skinner, Billie Burke. She last appeared in 1913, with Alia Nazimova, in The Marionettes...