Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundreds of reporters" (his own phrase) followed the President's son wherever he went. They kept asking about Florence Trumbull and an engagement. . . . The S. S. Lapland docked in Manhattan but John did not go to meet it. His absence from the pier won $1.50 in bets for Miss Trumbull. Debarking, she said, she and John had "our own understanding." They would not be married before Christmas-a White House wedding would be "thrilling"-"but there isn't much chance of that...
...several years Detroit has had an organization known as the Bonstelle Playhouse, run by Jessie Bonstelle. In this theatre many good actors have played and Miss Bonstelle, a kindly, able, loquacious lady, is regarded as an expert impresario. It is said that she taught Alice Brady how to act and other able mimes-Ben Lyons, Ann Harding, James Rennie, Katherine Cornell, Helen Menken-have appeared in her productions. Last spring Jessie Bonstelle organized a drive for subscribers in order to convert her playhouse into...
...Circus. Two significant features of this piece: it is aeronautical but has nothing to do with the 1914-18 shellfire; its cast includes Louise Dresser, who was in two Manhattan cinema openings last week (see A Ship Comes In.) Miss Dresser may be depended upon when she assumes a mother role. She looks not unlike Irene Rich and shares with her the distinction of most able protagonist of domesticity among cinemactresses. As the mother of Buddy Blake, aviator-aspirant, Louise Dresser is properly maternal when her son fails to pass a test, is properly proud when he does pass...
...John Pierpont Morgan summons his partners to No. 23 .Wall St., distributes gigantic checks as rewards for the year's work; 2) President Coolidge is kept busy answering appeals that he accept the chairmanship of the U. S. Steel Corp.; 3) Mrs. Frank O. Lowden, the onetime Miss Florence Pullman and daughter of Founder George M. Pullman, names all Pullman cars. For this labor, which reputedly occupies one half-hour each day, she earns either $100 a day or $30,000 a year...
...STRANGE CASE OF Miss ANNIE SPRAGG-Louis Bromfield-Stokes...