Word: thurstons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Howard Thurston: Phonograph record of Old Man River...
Professor Samuel Williston '82, Professor and Mrs. A. W. Scott, Professor and Mrs. Zechariah Chafee, Professor and Mrs. J. R. Beale, Professor and Mrs. Josef Retilich, Professor and Mrs. E. S. Thurston, Professor and Mrs. E. R. James, Professor and Mrs. T. R. Powell. Professor and Mrs. M. C. Campbell, and Professor and Mrs. E. M. Morgan are those who will receive...
Chester Morris's parents were in vaudeville for years. His brother Gordon writes plays. His brother Adrian and his sister Wilhelmina do short turns and musical specialties. He tried to be an artist for a while, then worked in vaudeville as a Magician?"Mysterious Morris"?copying Thurston. Augustus Thomas, who was an old friend of his father, got him a part in The Copperhead with Lionel Barrymore. After that he worked in various stock and Broadway plays. For some reason he has been more successful in pictures than anywhere else. Some of his films: Alibi, Woman Trap, Fast Life...
Married. Jane, daughter of Prestidigitator Howard Thurston; to one Harry Harris; six weeks ago under assumed names, again in a civil ceremony at Newport, Ky., again last week by a Catholic Priest in Cincinnati...
...hair, a broad brow and wide-set eyes. He was raised with a Negro "mammy" and a Negro playmate from whom he gained much of his extraordinary knowledge of racial peculiarities. Aged 10, he dove into Annette Kellerman's tank. Aged 12, he held eggs for the magician Thurston. For a year he went to military school in Atlanta. During the War he served in the Navy, then became a traveling tobacco salesman. Returning to Richmond he did a clog dance in a home talent show directed by Chicago professionals. They offered him a job coaching similar productions...