Word: warner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Emily Josephine Smith, 24, daughter of Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York, to Major John Adams Warner, 39, Superintendent of State Police, at Albany. Notables attending the wedding included: George Brennan (Democratic boss of Illinois), George W. Olvany (leader of Tammany), Owen D. Young, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Damrosch, Efrem Zimbalist, Assistant Secretary of the Navy T. Douglas Robinson. Through the "Papal Secretary of State, Pope Pius XI cabled his apostolic benediction for the couple. In all, 1,500 people crowded into the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, and the mass said by Patrick Cardinal Hayes lasted...
...Hour day. Warner A. Wiebodt, owner of three Chicago department stores, noted that practically no business was done before 9:30 a. m., although clerks went on duty an hour before. Last week he decided on a business innovation?to open at 9:30 a. m., to close at 5:30 p. m. His employes will work only seven hours daily...
Silence (H. B. Warner). It has long been a mystery why H. B. Warner was not gobbled by the movies. This onetime Alias Jimmy Valentine is one of the best of legitimate actors. He has played films before but never with conspicuous success. The pictures have not been up to his acting. So great a success has he made in this one that he will be lost to the stage for the next three years, on contract in California...
...that, Silence is not so much of a picture. It is a melodrama involving a man accused of murder, snatched from the death chair, shielding another, a faithful girl- and all that. Good enough, and an indication of excellent pictures forthcoming from H. B. Warner...
Thompson and Clark, who had come up with Warner, left ahead of the others, travelling on houseback to Lanehow where they came down the Yellow river on a small skin raft to the railhead and a hence by rail to Peking. Starr, Stimson and Warner brought up Lie rear more slowly on carts till they too reached the river and changed to a raft. On the return march five sets of small early Buddhist cave chapels were explored, two of them hitherto unreported. The early sculpture at these sites had been entirely destroyed and the wall paintings had been restored...