Word: troy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard to see what good will result if the skull of Pocahontas is dug up from a quiet resting place at Gravesend. The site of Troy may well reveal historical secrets. Luxor may give up relies, and the buried city of Herculaneum may contain valuable manuscripts yet undiscovered. There is still plenty of chance for further archacologizing. But why should a man wish to dig up his supposed ancestors! If it be merely to test the efficacy of the curse to fall on the desecrator of her grave, he might well wait until Sir Conan Doyle has definitely proved...
...summer stock, you have only to glance at the professional theatrical journals to discover that it is nationwide. Troy, N. Y., Lewiston, Me., Newark, Binghamton, Cumberland, Md., Trenton, are only a few of the localities where stock companies are playing at present. The Root Bros, organization is about to tour the Dakotas under canvas. Brown Bros, dramatic stock is tenting the fields of Illinois. Miss Jessie Bonstelle, having just begun a stock season at the Harlem Opera House with The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, is now in Detroit, at the opening of her summer stock company there...
...different matter. Like Helen of Troy's beauty, it is more often glowingly mentioned than accurately described. But three things might be said of it: it is technically practically flawless; it has beauty of color and vigorous line achieved with the fewest possible strokes; occasionally it fails in insight in spite of Sargent's far-famed "ability to render character." He is a marvelous ob- server of externals and sometimes- but not always-of inner truths about his sitters...
...Helen of Troy, N. T., by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connolly, authors of Dulcy and To the Ladies, and adapters of Merton of the Movies, has gone into rehearsal for its metropolitan production...
Died: James M. and Jesse A. Ide, pioneer collar manufacturers, at Troy, N. Y. Both brothers died suddenly, within nine hours of each other, each without knowing of the other's illness...