Word: macklin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month "America's handsomest symphony conductor," Macklin Marrow, was hired by The Bronx Theatre League-a 100% cultural group headed by the president of The Bronx Women's Club, the president of The Bronx Soroptimists and Borough President James J. Lyons-to give "the very first series of Standard Symphonic Concerts ever staged in The Borough of The Bronx." Handsomest Conductor Marrow is a Virginia-born batonist who was once musical director of the Provincetown Players and who, last spring, put on some chamber concerts at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel at which audiences put themselves...
...susceptibility to cancer may be inherited. Dr. Maud Slye of Chicago, who was in Europe last week, says that the female offspring of mice which have cancer of the breast will also develop cancer of the breast (TIME, Aug. 31). Last week at Madison Dr. Madge Thurlow Macklin of London, Ont. declared that this inherited organ susceptibility applied to human beings too. Said Dr. Macklin, 43, plump, vivacious mother of three daughters, and the only woman taking part in the cancer symposium: "We find that the members of a family tend to have the same type of cancer...
Aware of the despair which her words might cause, Dr. Macklin added: "The belief that cancer is inherited need not be a gloomy one. We can hardly make the picture darker than it is when we tell the public that one of every seven or eight adults will die of cancer. No one person can pay a doctor for a complete examination as to the possibilities of his having all the varieties of cancer that there are. But he can be examined for the more common kinds, and for the type someone else in his family has had. Thus...
Died. Col. Cushman Albert Rice, 54, soldier of fortune, big game hunter, original of the hero of Novelist Richard Harding Davis' Captain Macklin; of heart disease; at Green Lake...
...boom days were over the theatre was closed. Lately the University of Denver decided to use it for annual play festivals, of which last week's was the first. Patrons paid for hard hickory chairs. Director Robert Edmond Jones designed a stage setting lighted by old oil lamps. Composer Macklin Marrow wrote special music for the performance. For first-night and succeeding audiences Actress Gish displayed her famed wanness, made patrons sniffle during the death scene...