Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Dr. Mitchell Langworthy, 38, orthopedic surgeon of Spokane; of three gunshot wounds in the abdomen. One John Salmi, insane Finn miner, thought Dr. Mitchell's report had prevented his receiving additional State compensation, entered the Doctor's office, fired on him, shot the attending nurse in the shoulder, blew out his own brains...
Cartoon of the week in Moscow's Komsomolskaya Pravda (Communist Youth Pravda), organ of Communist juvenile associations: A naked Salomé presents a bloody tousled head to Messrs. John Pierpont Morgan and John Davison Rockefeller...
Fritzi Scheff, prima donna, prospered but Husband von Bardeleben went into bankruptcy with his postcard & valentine business. Soon after came a divorce and Novelist John Fox Jr. (Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, Trail of the Lonesome Pine) succeeded him, was in turn succeeded by her manager, George Anderson, who was divorced in 1920. Since then Fritzi Scheff's fortunes have varied too. Good comic operas have been scarce since the days of Victor Herbert. Tales of temperament have frightened some managers. She has been forced to occasional vaudeville towns, to doing Modiste over the radio, taking a turn...
...Martin John Insull, brother of Samuel Insull (utilities, opera) sat with his wife at dinner in his Highland Park, Ill., home while a thief entered his wife's bedroom upstairs and stole away with jewelry valued near...
Edward F. Albee, vaudeville manager (Keith-Albee), trustee of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, still abuilding after 37 years, gave the cathedral $150,000 more, having previously given $100,000, raised from theatrical sources some...