Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this play she takes the part of a girl, of 20, who has to pretend she is but 12 in order to facilitate her mother's snaring a British millionaire. In the impersonation of the child, there are considerable possibilities, and Mitzi realizes them. The result produces a considerable number of real laughs...
...vain they were charged by his opponents with debasing, if not prostituting, their heroism to politics. True heroes, they stuck to their electioneering. Further, they revealed that on the last stages of their flight they were so reduced in funds that they skimped on food in order to buy gasoline, and hastened home in order to avoid begging for meals...
Died. Charles Sims, R. A., 55, famed English artist; by drowning, in the River Tweed, near Melrose, Scotland. Four years ago he was hotly discussed because his portrait of a skinny-shanked King George V was declined by the trustees of the Royal Academy, on whose order it had been painted...
August Heckscher, 79½, zinc, steel and real estate potentate, philanthropist, is apt to die any minute now, thought Frieda Hempel, 42¾, retired soprano. So she filed application with the Manhattan Supreme Court for an order to have Mr. Heckscher testify immediately concerning his alleged agreement to pay her $48,000 a year for the rest of her life. She claims that she gave up an income of $200,000 a year on the concert stage to help Mr. Heckscher in his philanthropic work...
...disagreement between college and secondary school, which has been lying dormant since the short-lived up-heaval in February, received a fresh impetus Saturday, this time from the side of the schools. Doctor Edward Howard Griggs, in a speech to the Massachusetts Schoolmasters' Club, reversed the old order with an attack of some violence on the colleges...