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...Albert I. Beach of Kansas City; with Otto Kahn and Mayor Beach and Father Talley and Mother Talley and Sister Talley and a few favored delegates. There were speeches and a silver plaque presented by W. Frank Gentry in behalf of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. There were pressmen thirsty for new paragraphs to spin out their human interest story. Was she thrilled? No, she was a thrill-less person, she guessed. Had she been frightened? No. How did she feel now that it was all over? Why just about the same as she did before...
Engaged. Miss Margaret L. Du Pont, second daughter of Irenee Du Pont, President of the famed chemical firm of E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co.; to one Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, youthful chemical engineer. Because he plays the cello and she the violin, sentimental pressmen declared: "Music drew them together...
Fifty-year-old Sir Eric Geddes* returned to the U. S. last week. He came as a businessman, chairman of the Dunlop Tire & Rubber Co.,† to inspect their plants in Buffalo. Pressmen, scenting soapstone, pressed him for a statement on rubber. They got it in quick, definite sentences that comported strangely with his southern U. S. accent, which he had picked up as a youth working in southern lumber regions and on the B. & O. He said...
Feodor Chaliapin, large Russian bass, soon to tour Europe and the U. S. with his own opera company in the Barber of Seville, has a melody of his own running through his head. Last week in Detroit he hummed a few measures of it to pressmen; said that he would develop it into an operetta, take it on tour, perhaps, after the Barber...
...cables carried no comment by Actor Lang upon this action of Lang Jr. None the less pressmen featured the recent assertion by the Judas of Oberammergau that "Our beloved Anton Lang . . . does not like Americans." (TIME...