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...young prisoners had escaped from the Tombs, up a secret dumb-waiter shaft, down a rope of prison bedsheets bound with bedspring wire, in the Tombs' first important jailbreak since 1926. Hoist by this factitious timeliness, Crucible turned out to be a hoarse and inexpert melodrama. Plot: a philanthropist and onetime gambler takes an interest in the girl's painting, offers the boy a job. Audi- ences soon become aware of the philanthropist's real objectives: 1) to get his three gunmen out of the Tombs, 2) to woo the girl, 3) to frame...
Died. Benjamin Thaw, 74, Pittsburgh socialite banker and philanthropist, half-brother of Harry Kendall Thaw; after long illness; in Pittsburgh...
Henry Ganson was an impersonal philanthropist. He gave money to causes of which he approved but never to individuals, no matter how much he liked them. Though it was not at all evident that Mr. Ganson really liked anybody, almost everybody in the Dorchester School of Music admired him, almost everybody feared him. He applied the same pragmatic principles to the arts that he had found effective in business: he had no use for failures, however interesting. Young John O'Shaughnessy. general handyman of the School, had enough motherwit and social presence to get along with Mr. Ganson...
...will of James Loeb, New York banker and philanthropist, granting to Harvard University a fund of $500,000, with the income for the purpose of increasing the salaries of tutors and assistants in the department of Classics, marks an important advance in the art of making bequests. Instead of subsidizing research on some obscure problems, the Loeb will gives monetary encouragement to the inspiration of the tutors and section men, these who necessarily have the closest contacts with the students. It provides a vital link in the chain of education...
Died. Rose ("Rose of the Ghetto") Pastor Stokes, 53, famed U. S. radical labor leader; of cancer; in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. As a child (Russian-born) she worked in U. S. sweatshops. Later, a labor reformer, she met and married James Graham Phelps Stokes, socialite philanthropist, who divorced her 20 years later. She led many a strike, received but did not serve a 10-year sentence on a Wartime espionage charge...