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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when this entente is realized will be a day of world confidence and world credit. And from that day when the Bank of Nations is realized, there will be real association des nations." (In French the League is called Societe des Nations often abbreviated "S. D. N...
Last week in Hoboken, N. J., their ''last seacoast of Bohemia," Christopher Morley, Cleon Throckmorton, Conrad Milliken and Harry Wagstarf Gribble revived The Black Crook. Next day not a newspaper blushed, no pulpit peeped. Nevertheless, Hoboken's Lyric Theatre had scarcely more than standing room, not, of course, because The Black Crook is shocking in 1929, but because it is "quaint.'' The only trouble with it is that it is entirely too quaint. In their efforts to be sure the audience understands just how funny it looks and sounds after all these years, the actors...
...active realtor in Miami. She is mother of nine children-seven comely daughters, all married, and two sons-Harold, a polo-playing director of Chrysler Corp., Dayton Steel Racquet Co., Sikorsky Aviation Co. and many another corporation, and Nelson ("Bud"), Yale football captain in 1915, now president of N. S. Talbott Co.* All nine children with their husbands and wives and 24 offspring spent last Christmas with Mrs. Talbott in Dayton. The seven comely daughters were with her last week at the Ritz-Carlton in Manhattan, seeing her off for Europe with the choir she subsidizes. Last summer, she went...
...N. S. Talbott is a director of the mass production McClaren Consolidated Cone Co., which provides the U.S. with many an ice cream cone; the Dayton Friction Toy Co., famed for its fire-engines for children: the Vance Manufacturing Co., which makes the steel in Pullman cars look like wood...
Short hauls to Rome, N. Y., long hauls to Albany, the oldtime "canawlers" of the Erie Canal made with boatloads of machinery and produce. It was a leisurely existence, drifting along four miles an hour behind stout teams that trudged the towpath. For a few months Dan'l Harrow, farmer, was a part of it. Clever with horses, he hired on as driver to a canal captain and then fell heir to the boat. For "cook," meaning servant, companion, and mistress-as-long-as-compatible, he hired vivacious Molly; for driver he hired Fortune Friendly, variously parson and pinochle...