Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prominent musical educators. Will Earhart (Pittsburgh), John A. H. Keith (Harrisburg, Pa.), R. G. Jones (Cleveland), Mrs. Edgar S. Kelley (Oxford, Ohio, President of the National Federation of Music Clubs), Mabelle Glenn (Kansas City), Ada Bicking (Lansing. Mich.), Frederick A. Alden, George H. Gartlan. P. W. Dykema, Hollis Dann (Manhattan...
...accomplished. Author Channing Pollock, a great showman, is not a great artist. He has tried to do a Faust, with snatches of The Adding Machine and the Ballet Mechanique. His devil is a silk-hatted Babbitt named Mr. Moneypenny, who seizes an old and whining clerk named John Jones, gives him ticker tape and a Park Avenue apartment. It soon becomes apparent that John Jones is not happy-one doubts that he could be happy under any conditions. His children (with one exception) go to various types of metropolitan hell. Meanwhile, Author Pollock denounces night clubs, politicians, newspaper owners, Algonquinesque...
...Barrie actress but she has been cheered in many other sorts of plays. Since 1914, she has not played in the U. S.; then she was on her second husband, now she has her third. Her present U. S. appearance, while it pleased many, pleased, especially pleased, St. John Ervine, visiting London critic, who was reminded of his home town so happily that he wrote a glowing tribute to Fay Compton while he clawed Olympia and Author Molnar...
...13th Street near Sixth Avenue, Manhattan, John Markle, anthracite tycoon, helped Commander Evangeline Booth, of the Salvation Army, with a bit of digging, then turned, spade in hand, to acknowledge the cheers of many a Salvation Army cadet. Ground had been broken for the $500,000 John & Mary Markle residence-hotel for businesswomen. Said Henry Waters Taft, second youngest of the four Taft brothers and chairman of the Salvation Army Advisory Board: "He gives twice who gives quickly . . . he gives thrice who gives meekly...
Meanwhile there were the amenities of all conventions: such as the discussion of the Master prayerbook, which will be printed at an estimated expense of $100,000 (to be borne by John Pierpont Morgan as had his father before him), and turned over to the Rev. Dr. Lucien Moore Robinson, of Philadelphia, custodian of the Master book...