Word: semon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Francis Warren Pershing, 28, son of General John Joseph Pershing. Commander-in-chief of the A.E.F. during the World War; and Muriel Bache Richards, 23, oldest granddaughter of Philanthropist Jules Semon Bache; in Manhattan. Most remarkable guest at the wedding ceremony: John Joseph Pershing. Two months ago the No. 1 U. S. War hero took to his bed suffering from heart disease and a kidney ailment, on one occasion sank so low his physicians announced he would not live the night. Sufficiently recovered was the doughty 77-year-old last week to journey to New York, pose for photographers...
...Collections recently given to the public include those of Andrew William Mellon and Jules Semon Bache...
...Alexander from the novel by Erskine Caldwell; produced by Sam Byrd). The last novel by Erskine Caldwell to be cured for the stage was Tobacco Road, now in its fifth year. His Journeyman, even though he helped direct it, will become no such theatrical Oldest Inhabitant. The story of Semon Dye (Will Geer), a rambunctious, fleshly mountebank of a traveling preacher who turns Rocky Comfort, Ga. on its ear, Journeyman'-:, gallimaufry of humors lacks bounce, its madness lacks method, its plot lacks plot. Most of the time Dye struts lungingly across the stage bellowing who he is?a helpful move...
...peace-loving Medici with pensive eyes and a stubby beard, not to be compared, however, with his potent father, Lorenzo the Magnificent. But Giuliano had his picture painted by Raphael once. That picture, once the property of Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, was bought by Manhattan Stockbroker Jules Semon Bache...
...them of first rank, only one (a Degas figurine) the property of the Albright Art Gallery. Most liberal lenders were New York's Metropolitan Museum, which offered 33 pieces, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, which loaned 26. Such private collectors as John Pierpont Morgan, Jules Semon Bache, William Randolph Hearst, George Blumenthal, Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. chipped...