Word: richman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Englishman, son and grandson of Methodist ministers, Dr. Cadman devoted his scholarly efforts at Richman College, London, to Philology and the Classics. He was ordained at 26, after study at Illinois Wesleyan. In his handling of his second pastorate (at Yonkers, N. Y.), he exhibited a genius for organizing that lifted him high and brought under his hand four Manhattan churches. The Brooklyn call came in 1901, to the Central Congregational Church. He is known as a pulpit orator, widely read, hard of head, a man whose breadth of information (his specialty is the Oxford Movement) keeps abreast...
...lordship paid a sudden visit to Manhattan. At the Julia Richman High School, girls cheered him; at the Museum of Natural History, where he saw dodos and dinosaurs, the officials and guides recognized him. Leaving the Times Annex, chorus girls cheered him from the windows of their dressing room in the Apollo Theatre. On his way to the Herald-Tribune offices he was pointed out by the inimitable Will Rogers to a bevy of Ziegfeld Follies beauties who immediately broke into raucous cheers...
...Chairman of the Board of Directors of the First National Bank (Manhattan) ; Willis H. Booth, President of the International Chamber of Commerce, Vice President of the Guaranty Trust Co. (Manhattan) ; Sir James Arthur Salter, Economic and Financial Director of the League of Nations; A very Hop wood and Arthur Richman, playwrights...
Cornell.--N. P. Brown, R. E. Brown, C. C. Carter, J. M. Cowan, J. E. Emerson, E. A. Gordon, C. G. Irish, George Miske, J. P. Morrison, M. E. Richman, H. G. Smith, John Vandervoort, M. T. Ward, and G. C. Williams...
...comedy has a real plot, which is unusual in plays of this character, and the semi-historical background adds a touch of reality. There is a strong tendency in modern romantic plays to overdo the sentimental element, but Arthur Richman has overcome this by introducing a spicy antidote of humor at any point where the romantic is a little too saccharine...