Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What sent Dr. Patrick hurrying out of his house, into his flivver and into the night, was a telegram asking him to meet a train at the railroad station. Not many trains stop at Marceline, Mo., least of all the ponderous flier that groaned to a halt this night, dropping off brakemen with lanterns and a worried conductor...
...Patrick surrendered his whole attention to the sick man. The train tore westward. The bald, intense man wrote out a telegram to Mrs. Albert Patrick of Marceline...
What Mrs. Patrick said to herself about this telegram, she alone knows. What was the matter with John C. Flinn, head of the Producers & Distributors Corp., is a professional secret. But some of the sights and sensations Dr. Patrick experienced in the next few days are now part of the history of Marceline...
...Robert Winthrop Chanler, grandson of John Jacob Astor; he was supposed to have given her a large part of his fortune, which brought from his brother, John Armstrong Chanler, who had changed his name to Chaloner due to a difference with his family over his sanity, a now famed telegram: "Who's looney now?" In 1914 she married Lucien Muratore; in the same year both came to the U. S. to sing with the Chicago Grand Opera Association, left in 1922 after a clash with Mary Garden. Since then they have both lived in Paris where Mrs. Muratore maintains...
Gold Plaques. Dramatic Critic Frank Vreeland of the New York Telegram, onetime (1924) dramatic critic of TIME the weekly newsmagazine, ascended the stage of the Guild Theatre after the first act of the Monday performance of The Second Man, made a speech, presented two prizes. They were gold plaques awarded by the Morning Telegraph (New York) to the actor and actress who, in the opinions of Manhattan daily newspaper critics, gave the best performances of the year. The winners: Miss Pauline Lord for her work in Sandalwood, Mariners; Alfred Lunt, for his work in Juarez and Maximilian, Ned McCobb...