Word: theosophists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nine years ago, he began to arrange the scenery, lighting and costumes for Hampden's plays and he has done them all ever since. He began on Hamlet; in Cyrano he achieved his masterpiece, as Hampden achieves his. Claude Bragdon is now 62, twice-married, a theosophist, Buddhesque of countenance, a rare person...
...determine whether a shrewd reporter was playing with a senile woman or whether a shrewd octogenarienne was playing with a gull reporter. A general observation it is that, if a woman who has been active, able and dominant in her middle years, as Mrs. Stetson, Mrs. Annie Besant (Theosophist), Mrs. McPherson† retains sanity after her climacteric, then she will retain sharp intelligence and aggressive will until a very...
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Theosophist, "Vehicle of the World Teacher," "Bringer of the Word," "spiritual son" of Mrs. Annie Besant, sailed from the U. S. last week, wearing a grey lounge suit, tan shoes and spats, and reading Elmer Gantry...
Lyman Gage died at Point Loma, high, green promontory near San Diego, Calif. Theosophists nave their homes there. "I am not a theosophist," said Lyman Gage two decades ago. "I claim the privilege of withdrawal from the struggles of business life. Point Loma climate is most agreeable . . . here one can lead the simple life."‡ There he, 73, married Frances Ada Ballou, 36, who was with him, 17 years later...
Jiddu. About the forest-bound Castle of Eerde, at Ommen in The Netherlands, sat last week the devotees of the Order of the Star in the East (Mrs. Annie Besant's Theosophist cult). The castle had just been donated to them, to be henceforth the capitol* of their faith. About the grounds ran a miniature railway bearing food for the many hundreds who waited in arduous patience to hear a "sweet, penetrating voice" issue from the soft, brown lips of their Jiddu Krishnamurti. In such tones will their "World Teacher" speak when his spirit flitters into Jiddu...