Word: l
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through angry muttering crowds of Monégasques, Prince Pierre proceeded resolutely to confer with members of the resigned National Council, and especially with soft-voiced, steel-eyed M. Léon, the young manager of Monte's famed Casino...
Inevitably does the name HARKNESS evoke Yale University. Yale's Memorial Quadrangle was given by Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness. There is a William L. Harkness Hall. And sadly do Harvard men recall that day in December, 1924, when a University Theatre was given to Yale by Edward Stephen Harkness, Yale '97. For, immediately, Professor George Pierce Baker of the famed Harvard 47 (theatre) Workshop was invited to the Yale faculty of Fine Arts to teach dramatics with the Harkness theatre as laboratory. Immediately, Prof. Baker accepted...
...Percy L. Crosby's "Skippy" letter was missing, although Skippy may appear in the future as an occasional feature. There were other changes...
Partnerships. To Sir William Wiseman, 43; George W. Bovenizer, 49, and Lewis L. Strauss, 32, came partnerships in the great Manhattan banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Partner Wiseman rose to fame as Chief of the British Intelligence Service in the U. S. from 1916 to 1919. Partner Strauss was confidential secretary to President-Elect Hoover during the war. Partner Bovenizer, with Kuhn, Loeb since 1897, has been manager of the bond and syndicate departments...
...trial grew to resemble a literary symposium. The names of Shakespeare, George Jean Nathan, Aristotle, Gorky, Ibsen, Bernard Shaw and many another were spoken. Author Nichols' "dramaturgical expert," Moses L. Malevinsky of O'Brien, Malevinsky, & Driscoll, proceeded to a comparison of every entrance and exit in Abie's Irish Rose with every entrance and exit in the cinema...