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...Lady Has a Heart (by Ladislaus Bus-Fekete; adapted by Edward Roberts; Rufus Phillips & Watson Barratt. producers). On the nearly sure-fire theme of The Admirable Crichton-the butler who turns out to be a better man than the rest of them-a competent cast headed by beautiful Vincent Price and lissome Elissa Landi amble through a pleasant play that occasionally skitters along the edge of being a tour de farce. Actor Price is the same restrained, terribly patient young man that he was as Albert in Victoria Regina...
Chairman of the Conference was one of the world's most respected Quakers, Dr. Rufus Matthew Jones of Haverford. Author of 40 books, longtime philosophy professor, Quaker Jones represents the broadening and liberalizing of Quaker thought which, without cooling its emotional nature, has kept the sect its self-respect. Dr. Jones, 74, is tall, pink-cheeked, white-crested, talks with the crisp accent of his native South China, Me.,, of whose Yearly Meeting he is still a member. He still lives on Haverford's cricket green, a professor emeritus, likes to watch from his window the sport which...
Born in Surprise, Neb., Rufus Woods saw his first circus there. When he grew to 5 ft. 8 in., 210 lb., 59 years, he was well-known in the State of Washington as editor and publisher of the Wenatchee World. Last week the nation became aware of Mr. Woods, through widely published pictures, as the editor who turned clown...
Pure Oil Co.'s president since 1924 has been Henry May Dawes, solemn brother of Charles and Rufus, and its chairman is genial, stout Brother Beman. Least known of the Dawes boys, Beman is a great vacationist in Florida and Canada, leaves active direction of the company to hardworking Brother Henry. At his desk on the 22nd floor of Chicago's Pure Oil building every morning promptly at nine, President Dawes rarely gets away for golf except on weekends. An amateur of Civil War history and photography, he is a great friend of Cartoonist John McCutcheon and Illinois...
Supreme Court in session, prints it herewith. The drawing shows James J. Hill's lawyer, John G. Johnson (left), arguing the famed Northern Securities case before Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller and the Court, January 1904. (Justices from left to right are: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Rufus Wheeler Peckham, Henry Billings Brown, John Marshall Harlan, Chief Justice Fuller, David Josiah Brewer, Edward Douglass White, Joseph McKenna, William Rufus Day.) Northern Securities Co. had been organized to control the securities of Northern Pacific and Great Northern Railways. By a 5-to-4 decision, the holding company was found in restraint...