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...afternoon tea. The War took Philip Barry to the U. S. Embassy at London because weak eyes kept him out of military service. The desire to write plays took him back to the 47 Workshop. The need to make a living temporarily shunted him into the advertising business (McCann-Erickson, Inc.). When he heard that The Youngest, his first professionally produced play, was to be presented on Broadway he was on his way to Europe, with very little money, on his honeymoon. The bride was Ellen Semple, daughter of the late Lorenzo Semple, law partner of Coudert Brothers...
...LONG CHRISTMAS DINNER- Thornton Wilder-Yale Press & Coward-McCann...
...Erickson. Up & down Europe it met fierce competition from Sir Michael Nairn of Scotland whose family had been making linoleum since 1847. In 1924, whipped, Congoleum was glad to become Congoleum-Nairn, Inc. Its chairman is now Alfred William Erickson, although his chief interest is the advertising firm of McCann-Erickson. Inc. Vice Chairman is Baronet Nairn, jovial, bushy-mustached, fond of sports. With hat turned far down in front he drives to sporting events in a strange motor wagonette, scrambles onto its roof for a good view. He likes to go through factories notebook in hand. Congoleum-Nairn...
Died. James Paul Donahue, 45, Manhattan stockbroker, famed roulette player, husband of Mrs. Jessie Woolworth Donahue who with Mrs. Helena W. McCann and Barbara Hutton inherited the estate (some $51,000,000) of the late Frank Winfield Woolworth (5¢ & 10¢ stores); of acute uremia following an attempt at suicide with bichloride of mercury; in Manhattan...
...MEMORIES, Recollections of (Sir) William Rothenstein, 1872-1900-Coward McCann...