Word: mabell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clarke, powerman, a "friendly" receiver was appointed. American Bond & Mortgage financed apartments, hotels and office buildings, usually kept the common stock of these buildings. Its financing of Washington's big Mayflower Hotel (in which Halsey, Stuart & Co. participated) was under Congressional discussion. Last week five Mayflower bondholders, with Mabel Walker Willebrandt as attorney, obtained a receiver for the hotel...
...machinations by which Rodelinda, the Lombard Queen, rid herself of imposters and became reunited with Bertaric, the rightful king, were by no means the most important aspect of the performance. Handel's plot is blatantly conventional, works its way out leisurely. The imported soloists, headed by Soprano Mabel Garrison, and the choristers from Smith and nearby Amherst wore conventional wigs and furbelows. It was Handel's clear, direct music and the finish with which it was given that won Rodelinda highest praise yet for a Smith premiere from the metropolitan critics. The orchestra, composed mostly of Smith girls...
...Married. Mabel ("Queen of Diamonds") Boll, 32, friend of Promoter Charles A. Levine; and a Count Henri de Porceri, 43 (Polish-born, U. S.-naturalized); in Paris...
...Mabel Hayward put in a claim last week for a share of the Wendel estate. Buxom, 46-year-old Mrs. Hayward keeps house for a 76-year-old retired detective, Capt. Theodore Lawton, on his ramshackle farm at Wickford, R. I. She roves about the country with her two children during the summer, playing her mandolin, banjo and guitar at fairs and carnivals. She has a paper purporting to be the marriage certificate of the late John Gottlieb Wendel II, and one Hannah S. Holt, of Chelsea, Vt., dated 1855 (Mr. Wendel II, supposed never to have married, died...
...Philosopher-Mathematician Bertrand Arthur William Russell (who succeeds to the title); of heart disease; in Marseilles. Grandson of Lord John Russell, Victorian Prime Minister, he was, like his brother, a scientist and Socialist. Once a Buddhist, later an agnostic, he married three times. He divorced his first wife, Mabel Scott, in Reno and immediately married Mollie Cooke, twice-divorced sister-in-law of the Bishop of Kilmore. Since his divorce was not valid in England he was charged with bigamy, tried in the House of Lords, imprisoned for three months. Later he was pardoned and reinstated through...