Word: pelham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ruth Chatterton, brought from the theatre for sound-cinema, has a long jaw, sly eyes and a good voice. When she was 14 she quit Mrs. Hazen's school at Pelham Manor, N. Y., to join a stock company playing in Washington, D. C. Later she supported Lowell Sherman, Pauline Lord, Lenore Ulric. She translated La Tendresse from the French, produced it herself and played the lead. She was in The Devil's Plum Tree in Los Angeles when Emil Jannings requested that she take a screen test, and picked her for Sins of the Fathers. She says...
Died. George Henry Jones, 56, chairman of the board of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, of Pelham, N. Y.; from intestinal obstruction after a lingering illness, in Manhattan. Mr. Jones, native of Carthage, N.Y., was successively mill boy, factory worker, messenger, typewriter salesman, Standard Oilman (35 years). A tireless worker, he abjured recreations until his soth birthday when his fellow directors gave him golf clubs. He was elected to the chairmanship in 1925; simultaneously his health began to fail...
Capt. William Roos, of Pelham Manor, N. Y., owner of Rofa, lived to tell what happened: "The squall caught us with terrific force before we could shorten sail. The mainsail was first to go. It broke off with a great crash about 18 feet from the deck. The 50 feet of mast tumbled into the sea, carrying the heavy gear with...
...Tappen '30 Pleasantville, N. Y. 160 5.11 21 No. 7 R. C. Durant '28 Hartford, Conn. 175 6.03 22 No. 6 W. W. Garnsey '30 Greeley, Col. 178 6.02 20 No. 5 L. W. Ladd '30 Cleveland, O. 195 6.05 20 No. 4 J. O. Rodgers '28 Pelham, N. Y. 174 6.00 21 No. 3 S. P. McCalmont '30S Franklin, Pa. 175 6.02 21 No. 2 R. E. Cushman '29 Utica, N. Y. 167 6.02 22 Bow B. W. Taylor '28 New York 172 6.02 21 Cox., P. Stewart '28 New Orleans, La. 120 5.08 21 Yale Junior Crew Position...
Died. Henry Pelham Archibald Douglas Pelham-Clinton, Lord High Steward of Retford, Master Forester of Dartmoor, Keeper of St. Briavel's Castle, Earl of Lincoln and seventh Duke of Newcastle, 63; following a long illness; in London...