Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sign my name in sincerity but request that no more than my "nickname" be put in print. But don't omit "The Hill School...
...about John is that he is a student in Amherst College and happens to be a son of the President of the United States. And yet we read that he has arrived in Amherst for his senior year 'accompanied by a young secret-service man.' In the name of Beelzebub, why? We heard first of this secret-service man last year and hoped by now that he had been returned to some legitimate work- or is there such an army of these men that no legitimate work can be found for them all? We can't think...
These plans, however, are not final. Mr. Urban has been variously designated "architect," "associate architect," "assistant architect." His name and work are coupled with Architect Benjamin Wistar Morris. Mr. Morris' plans are likely to differ from Mr. Urban's, since they were drawn up separately, are based on a different school of architecture, are said to preserve the old traditions of opera houses, including the old number of boxes in the horseshoe...
...Believing the purpose was a dignified tribute to the memory of the great composer, I gladly accepted. ... I am now informed of... the competition for completing Schubert's masterpiece. . . . This seems, to me, like adding a pair of arms to the Venus of Milo. ... I request that my name be eliminated...
...gently, having trained him for a cantor. But circumstance and the boy's yearning for the footlights made him in the end a singer of jazz for the world that lives at night. George Jessel, a jazz singer from revue and vaudeville, played the part and made his name as a straight actor. But in making the picture Mr. Jessel was passed over in favor of the man whom so many worship as their greatest entertainer, Al Jolson. It is Mr. Jolson's first picture and as such of great import to the history of the current theatre...