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...hatchet and finally nailing the sandwich to the roof. An escalator then lowers Mr. Cook to the stage where he relates at length the trip he has just made from Cripple Creek, Colo.-"a good night's work if I do say so." Unknown to him, Miss Ona Munson, a flaxen-haired soubrette with a childish uncertainty in her voice, has stowed away in the cab. For her benefit the undismayed comedian does a complicated tap dance up & down a pair of Tom Thumb steps, sits down at a portable piano and sings the tuneful theme song, "Hold Your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 2, 1933 | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

...near Tours, France. Returned to the U. S. this summer for rehearsals, seven weeks of them, he said he would never live abroad again. He has three children: Eugene Jr., who won a Latin prize at Yale last year (TIME, June 8) of which his father is very proud, Ona and Shane. He is also attached to a Dalmatian named Blemie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Greece in New England | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

...Chicago's William Wrigley Jr., chewing gum tycoon. Other famed island-owners: Detroit's Motorman Howard Earle Coffin (Sapelo, Ga.), Boston's Lawyer Albert Cameron Burrage (Bumkin, in Boston Harbor), Maine's onetime Governor Percival Proctor Baxter (Macworth, Casco Bay), Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, Will Hays, Arthur Brisbane (Ona. Fla.), Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke (Jahncke's Bayou, St. John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: White Rock | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...trip north to Terra del Fuego again, in an open boat with four Yaligans. While on this canoe trip they came across a tribe of the most primitive people in the world, still living in the stone age. Another strange tribe that Colonel Furlong tells of are the Ona Indians of Terra del Fuego. These Indians were driven from the open lands of the north by the white people. They have retreated, unconquered, to the impenetrable mountains and forests, and to the bog lands. He stayed alone with the Onas for some time, and explored their country, being the first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO RELATE ADVENTURES IN WILD SOUTH AMERICA | 12/19/1923 | See Source »

...Ona Jefferson Myers L. '12-'13, of Jeneville, Ind., 2d lieutenant, A. S. was led in an aeroplane fall between Chauroux and Ardentes, France, on June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD CASUALTIES | 1/24/1919 | See Source »

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