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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trooping with tent shows of Uncle Tom's Cabin, in which she played -'Little Eva," in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, she reached Manhattan in 1911, was given a small part in Jumping Jupiter, later toured with Julian Eltinge in The Crinoline Girl, with George Arliss in Disraeli (see p. 69). Meteoric was her success as Harlot Sadie Thompson in Somerset Maugham's Rain (1922). Although she missed but 15 performances in Rain's run of some five years, in her last play, Her Cardboard Lover, her performance became dilatory, then apperiodic, then sporadic. Failing to appear...
Died. Gustav Stresemann, German Foreign Minister; .at Berlin; of thrombosis (see p...
Nearby, Prognosticator Babson (see p. 52) conducts a similar school for rising young men (Babson Institute), who study at businesslike desks, speak their examinations into whirring dictaphones, con Babson graphs, charts, advice sheets. The Babsons may be the unconscious go-betweens in many a happy timocratic union...
...first (1906) race Frank P. Lahm, also an American, covered 402 miles. Longest race distance was France's Maurice Bienaime's 1,354 miles...
...lineup of the Harvard 1932 team against Browne and Nichols follows: l.e., W. F. Croskery; l.t., W. M. Crosby; l.g., D. P. Ketcham; c., R. M. Ayer; qr.g., J. M. Blake; r.t., A. S. Dane; r.e., C. W. Wickersham; q.b., W. E. Hutchins; l.h.b., D. R. Weir; r.h.b., T. J. McKay; f.b., B. Pool...