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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan early one morning, answering an advertisement for supers. She looked tired and sick but she managed to learn what she had to do quicker than the dozen girls hired with her. Belasco took her out of the cast and sent her home to rest up, continued to pay her salary. He gave her lessons for a season and in 1916 put her in a big part in The Heart of Wetona. Working for him during the next twelve years she spent much of her time putting walnut stain on those portions of her person not covered by beads, grass...
Ever since he lifted the Chicago Opera and its million-a-year deficit from the grateful shoulders of Harold Fowler McCormick, Mr. Insull has made it his favorite plaything. And most things that Samuel Insull plays with are sooner or later made to pay. Thus, though Architects Graham, Anderson, Probst & White had orders to stint nothing in making Chicago's opera house second to none for luxury, they also had orders to surmount the edifice with a 21-story office building. In the auditorium are rose-velvet boxes, rose-brocade chairs, a gold and ivory proscenium arch, lush carpeting...
...visiting committee, who is a member of the North Shore Garden Club, which is interested in the work of the Garden and has contributed to its work, said that "we have always had hard sledding to get funds. The University has always given us $3000 yearly to pay off the debt of the Garden, and we have raised $5000 to carry on the work. Last spring the University, after the debt had been paid, would not continue to contribute their $3000 to the Garden any more. And some time after the last meeting we, the members of the Botanic Garden...
...Some years ago a number of people interested in gardening asked the Corporation to conduct the Garden for horticultural objects, offering to pay the expenses involved, which the Corporation was glad to do so long as the cost was thus defrayed. After a while the Committee became weary of raising subscriptions, and last spring it was decided that in view of this fact, and of the comparatively small scientific value of horticulture to the University, the Garden had better be used for scientific purposes. The direction of the Garden has, therefore, been transferred to a member of the Department...
...British Ambassador at Washington-suspected of being a "Colonel House." Intensely embarrassed, especially by reports that newspapers in his home city, Manchester, were whooping the story, Baron Arnold said: "I wish to deny this as emphatically as I can without being discourteous to Miss MacDonald." Ishbel, soberly: "I never pay any attentions to such rumors or deny them...