Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MERCHANT OF VENICE- Walter Hampden and Ethel Barrymore in a generous and markedly satisfying revival...
Married. Miss Frances Davison, daughter of the late famed financier Henry Pomeroy Davison (partner in J. P. Morgan & Co. and Wartime head of the American Red Cross), sister of F. Trubee Davison (Chairman of the National Crime Commission), to Ward-Chney, son of famed silk merchant Charles Cheney; at Locust Valley...
...Merchant of Venice. Clad in a breath-taking scarlet robe, Miss Ethel Barrymore appeared to Mr. Walter Hampden's Shylock a creation of the role of Portia which flamed like the attack of a young and flighty tanager upon an old and steady-going raven. Mr. Hampden's performance was straightforward, stately and without elocutionary claptrap. Miss Barrymore seemed unusually nervous and selfconscious, but swept the audience off its feet with a blazing scintillant triumph in the trial scene...
Before the soothing explanations were heard, however, Rabbi Wise felt obliged to hand in his resignation as Chairman of the $5,000,000 United Palestine Fund. Promptly famed Manhattan Jewish merchant Nathan Straus ("best loved U. S. Jew") made a further contribution of $150,000 to the fund, and flayed anyone and everyone who aspersed his friend Rabbi Wise. Later Mr. Straus predicted that the Rabbi's resignation would not be accepted...
...maritime era. The poverty-stricken mother of Elijah Cobb, a sailor's widow, mothering six, sent him out into the world. At 14 he sailed for Surinam as cook and cabin-boy; he was in command of a brig at 23. The captain of those days was navigator, merchant, banker and diplomatist as occasion required; witness his first voyage to Europe as shipmaster. The year was 1793, when neutrals had few rights. His brig captured by the French on a pretext, her cargo of foodstuffs looted for starving Brest, the guillotine overshadowing all, Cobb loyally strove to secure...