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...possibly the most imitative of pantomime artists". There were views of mountain Formosa, with our old friend the leafy branch waving from the right, to make it real and make you forget that the same branch was held in the same position in the Caucasus a month ago. The Wainwright Sisters sang in the Duncanesque manner and "Mephistophele" made a pleasant enough operatic tableau. But for a general opinion one is obliged to rely again on the lady behind, who clucked at the nonchalant and almost naked Formosan headhunter, saying, "We'd look like that too, if we didn...

Author: By C. D. W., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/13/1928 | See Source »

Engaged. Miss Caroline Townsend Wainwright, of Rye, N. Y.; to John Farrand, of Rochester, N. Y., son of Dr. Livingston Farrand, president of Cornell University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 12, 1928 | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

Marriage Annulled. Helen Wainwright Holland, famed swimmer, married with a 10? wedding ring in April (because her theatre manager desired publicity), from one George Leonard Holland, trap drummer. She charged fraud. "My marriage was only a joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 17, 1927 | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

Married. Julia Wainwright Robbins Hoyt, 30, actress; to Louis Calhern, actor; at Noroton, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 26, 1927 | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

Engaged. Julia Wainwright Robbins Hoyt, 30, actress; to Louis Camera, actor. A onetime sketch artist for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, he made his first stage success in Cobra in 1924, and last winter appeared with Miss Hoyt in The Dark. She in 1914, aged 17, married Lydig Hoyt, clubman, divorced him in Paris in 1924. She made her stage debut with William Faversham, in a revival of The Squaw Man in 1921. The two years following she spent with Stuart Walker's Stock Co. in Indianapolis & Cincinnati...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 19, 1927 | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

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