Word: morrises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In Manhattan arrived from Deauville one Joseph Morrison, brother of Morris Morrison, Shakespearian actor, his passage paid by Al Jolson, comedian. On the boat Mr. Morrison, penniless, had frolicked. Now he called into his stateroom the ship's men who had served him, told them that he had no...
"But have you filmed Max Reinhardt?" queried a newsgatherer. No, Mr. Barton had not been allowed to "shoot" the man whose genius had attracted so many of the World's celebrities to the Saltzburg Festival (see p. 17). Max Reinhardt, who is making of Salzburg, his childhood home, an...
Engaged. Virginia Dorothea Morris, eldest daughter of the Morris banking system* founder; to Lieutenant Earle H. Kincaid of Covington, Va. Engaged. Ruth Whiting, daughter of William F. Whiting, (famed manufacturer of letter paper) (When you thing of writing think of Whiting); to one Neil Chapin, brother of Alfred H. Chapin...
*"The Morris Plan of Banking and Credits" is a system designed to fill in the gap between commercial banks and chattel loan sharks, by which loans are made for amounts large or small, secured by promissory notes signed not only by the borrower but by two "co-makers" equally responsible...
¶At Philadelphia Edele Rose Weist, 5, snuffled annoyingly. Her parents took her to St. Mary's Hospital for removal of her adenoids and tonsils. The operator worked carefully. It was a simple operation. But the child hacked, coughed, gasped-inhaled seeping blood into her lungs. She died, suffocated...