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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soprano Hallie Stiles, who was to have made her Chicago debut in the season's first Romeo et Juliet, was ill, postponed her appearance until...
...degree. During that period, however, he performed in a Y. M. C. A. play which Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill happened to attend. So enthusiastic was O'Neill that he went backstage and begged Robeson to act in Emperor Jones. His law course finished, Robeson consented, and made a name as a big actor in Emperor Jones, All God's Chillun, Black...
Emil Cooper, famed Russian conductor who has introduced much Slavic music to Western Europe, made his U. S. debut. While laymen in the audience concentrated on the amateurish antics of Singer McCormic, critics marked Conductor Cooper's bright tempo, his fine sense of balance...
...more than any fifty men, is responsible for this stock crash," wrote Senator Carter Glass of Virginia last week to the Philadelphia Record. He?Charles Edwin Mitchell, head of National City-Bank?made no reply. Hostility of Senator Glass was an old story; besides, Mr. Mitchell had serious troubles to cope with. The still ominous market; the cancelled Corn Exchange merger; the rumored differences with his directors?Mr. Mitchell's position was carrying hazards with its honors...
...Senior year. In Chicago, where he went to work (for $10 weekly) for Western Electric, he found that his address, chosen for cheapness, excited criticism; further discovered that he had innocently selected a room in one of the Loop's worst dives. Solution: He moved, paid more rent, still made his $10 serve. In 1907 came a really major trouble. Summoned to Manhattan to be assistant to the president of Trust Co. of America, Mr. Mitchell had hardly unpacked his grip when the Panic of 1907 arose to greet him. Solution: Skillful liquidation of Trust Co. investments, during which...