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...third of the memorial's cost will be borne by the estate of the late U. S. Ambassador to Japan, Edgar Addison Bancroft at whose instigation it is being constructed. His friend and fellow Chicago attorney Henry M. Wolf (of Judah, Willard, Wolf, and Reichmann) has contributed another third. Viscount Shibusawa having made up the rest, the monument partakes of a binational character soothing to the feelings of Japanese unfriendly to the U. S. The present U. S. Ambassador Charles MacVeagh moreover greatly resembles his very generally popular predecessor, Ambassador Bancroft. The names of both men are identified with...
...Reverend Willard L. Sperry, Dean of the Harvard Theological School, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning...
...Gregory Farnham, the American lover, twice entangled by engagements, employs the easy, off-stage air which distinguishes Roland Young. There is too much, physically, to Mr. Blackmer to permit of the same ease of manner owned by Mr. Young, but the method satisfies. Count Scipione Varelli, played by Jack Willard, bursts upon the scene with great waving of hands and mouthing of Italian oaths, and the fireworks...
...Roberts had been successively vanquished by some young brawny Boston Lithuanian. But, then- Johnson was a has-been, knocked out by fat Jess Willard; Smith was a trial horse, only fair; Roberts, who had ever heard of him? Astute, pudgy gentlemen relaxed; the heavyweight situation seemed unchanged. . . . Later came news of the defeat of clever Jack Renault, tough Johnny Risko at the same hands. The hands belonged to square-jawed Jack Sharkey, carried the potential power of dynamite. Binghamton-born, Boston-bred, this Lithuanian with a famed Irish name* served in the navy, has boxed professionally for but two years...
Centers: Bigelow, Brown, Dove, McCiellan and Willard...