Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week's dredging of the Oil Scandals produced proof of how Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's contributions to the G. O. P. in 1923, after a Republican cabinet member had furtively enriched Sinclair with the Teapot Dome lease, were camouflaged by the G. O. P. management. The star witness was James A. Patten, fellowtownsman of Vice President Dawes (Evanston, Ill.)-plainspoken, upstanding, oldtime "wheat king" of the Chicago Board of Trade...
Died. William Henry Crane, 82, well-loved actor, star of David Harum, The Senator, Business is Business and many another U. S. comedy, president emeritus of the Maskers Club; in Hollywood, Calif...
...Unborn Child came to Manhattan last week after 15 years on the road. Thus, in one respect, it is a grandmother to Abie's Irish Rose. Critics were not allowed to see it until after a special performance for the Eastern Star society and a matinee for ladies only. It depicts a wholesome Irish family, whose oldest child, Doris, has been seduced by aristocratic Jack Conover. Jack's aunt, an advocate of birth control and kindred arts, persuades Doris to consult a physician. Doris insists on seeing her good family physician, who eloquently refuses to perform an abortion...
...June 11, 1928 the shores of this uncivilized country are due to be again visited by a party of Pilgrims. On this occasion the White Star liner "Celtic" is being chartered, presumably so that the Pilgrims may have plenty of room for the appropriate amount of antiques to hand down to future generations...
...modernizing of Shakespeare is just a fad," Fritz Leiber, veteran Shakespearian star, walking off the stage into his dressing-room at the Arlington Theatre, explained to a CRIMSON representative. "It appeals to those people who are always seeking novelty in a thing, while the company likes it because it breaks up the repertoire...