Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Major Jordan Lawrence Mott 3d of Santa Catalina Island, Calif., grandson of the late Ironmaster Jordan Lawrence Mott; and Mrs. Frances Hewett Bowne (Frances Gibson), onetime operetta singer (The Chocolate Soldier); in Merced, Calif. In 1912 Major Mott eloped from New York with Mrs. Bowne. He left his wife, two children; she left Manufacturer Bowne. They shipped as purser & stewardess aboard a British freighter. In Japan Major Mott received the Order of the Rising Sun, edited a temperance monthly, wrote stories. Eight years ago Mr. Bowne divorced his wife. Last year the first Mrs. Mott consented to a divorce...
...Otto Kahn had heard her in Europe. So had Mr. Gatti. But then came the War. Vienna stayed German and the Metropolitan Opera went Italian. Jeritza was married-to Baron Leopold Popper de Podraghy,* one of the wealthiest industrialists of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, turned soldier for his Emperor. She herself sang at the front, worked in a hospital. Not until the fall of 1921 did she come to the Metropolitan...
...universal respect for the play abroad contrasted with the reactions which it induced in Manhattan theatre-goers. Something was the matter with the performance; partly, it seemed, the acting, partly the direction. A French soldier returns home on leave; his fiancée, who has been living at his father's home, no longer loves the soldier but she conceals this fact until after she has spent the night with him. In the morning, the soldier's father berates his son for a seduction; whereat the soldier berates in his father selfish and truculent senescence which so blatantly...
Harvard and Yale's combined track team will meet the Oxford Cambridge team on Soldier's Field July 12, 1929, according to an announcement made last night by W. J. Bingham '16, director of Harvard athletics. The last meeting between the English and American teams was won by the former on the Stamford Bridge track near London...
...when the American Legion held their convention in Paris, they were addressed by Scapini. General Perishing and the other leaders of the A. E. F. were so impressed with the personality of this blind soldier that they urged him to visit the United States the following year. It is in accordance with this request that Scapini is here at the present time having been the sole official French representative to the sole American Legion Convention at San Antonio, Texas last month...