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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This award was made last week, for 1928, to Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, 58, of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, for her research on tuberculosis...
Paul Muni grew up traveling with the stock-companies in which his father and mother had parts. When he was 11, they needed someone to play an old man. The thin boy with his piping voice made up well in the part. When he was a little older he worked in art theatres. Sam Harris put him on contract. He made hits in such plays as We Americans and Four Walls. He was pleased with Seven Faces because it gave him a chance to exercise his hobby?facial makeup. He likes fights, football games, concerts, is bored by tennis...
...Secretary of the Interior Walter Lowrie Fisher, a lawyer in the Chicago firm of Fisher, Boyden, Bell, Boyd & Marshall. During the summers she has been premiere danseuse and ballet mistress at Louis Eckstein's Ravinia Opera; in the winters a solo dancer at Metropolitan Opera, Manhattan. Last year she made an eight-months' tour of the Orient. Last week in Manhattan she gave a recital with her own ensemble...
...Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news...
Arturo Toscanini, conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, made known that he would sail for Italy next week to buy a castle on the Isle of Capri...