Word: pan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chile (1909-1914). From 1916 to 1920 he was Ambassador to Mexico. He was Under-Secretary of State during the first year of the Harding administration, then went to Belgium, then to Italy. Last winter, President Coolidge called him home, as Harding did in 1923, to attend the Pan-American Congress. In addition to all this experience, Mr. Fletcher has learned about Latin-America from his three brothers, who own large mines in Nicaragua...
With Laura Hope Crews in Olympia is famed Fay Compton, who has excited English enthusiasm since her 1911 debut in The Follies. Long ago, Fay Compton played the title rôle, which made Maude Adams famous here, in Peter Pan. Those actresses who are great in Barrie's plays, like those who excel in Shakespeare's, are a special type, often not successful elsewhere. Fay Compton is perhaps a Barrie actress but she has been cheered in many other sorts of plays. Since 1914, she has not played in the U. S.; then...
...James Matthew Barrie, elfin creator of Peter Pan, stood up at a bazaar, in Jedburgh, Scotland, last week, and solemnly informed his audience that on the previous night he had walked hand in hand through their village with the late Mary Queen of Scots (died...
...James is neither cracked nor a spiritualist, but years ago he invented the hypnotic question, "You do believe in fairies, don't you?"; and ever since some people have enjoyed making believe in Peter Pan or fairies or anything else favorably presented to their notice by Elf Barrie. Last week it was Mary Queen of Scots. The bazaar was in her honor. Proceeds would go to a fund for the purchase and preservation of a house in Jedburgh where Her Majesty once lay sick abed...
...Ceaseless Shuttles weaving the fabric of international goodwill" was what John L. Merrill, president of the Pan-American Society of the U. S., called ships as the new Grace liner Santa Barbara sailed for Havana, the Canal Zone and South America...