Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Producer Fanchon, 42, was Fanny Wolf, daughter of a Los Angeles clothing store proprietor. She studied piano; her brother Mike (Marco) fiddle. Together they entertained at lodge parties and picnics, graduated to a dinner show in Tait's famed San Francisco restaurant. Fanchon & Marco embellished their act with other specialties, began to play theatre dates in their spare time. When the demand grew they organized a second company, coalesced their troupe in a musical show Sunkist which they took to Broadway. Two weeks later the Southern Pacific Railroad accepted Marco's note for $2,800 to transport...
Messages of felicitation from every corner of the University were flying yesterday to the Massachusetts Avenue headquarters of a certain well-known figure in the educational world. The grievous mistake of a group of serenaders who had the brass to parade before said headquarters singing "There's no wolf around my door" has been brought to light with startling vividness with the announcement that there are now three Wolffs and an orang outang to assist delinquent students over the scholastic bumps. Whether the latest addition to Clan Wolff will be tutored by his playmate Peter or whether he will cast...
Seventy-two years ago last week a tall, grave man with chin whiskers entered Ford's Theatre in Washington to see a performance of Our American Cousin. Eleven hours later he was dead. Last week on the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's assassination famed Collector Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach exhibited in his cluttered Philadelphia office a collection of Lincolniana which he values at more than $1,000,000. An important item was the notes of Dr. Charles S. Taft, the army surgeon who attended Lincoln's last hours...
...that is, at most, only the half of it. There are songs. These were written by Cammann Newberry, '37, Benjamin Welles, '38, and Gaspar Bacon, Jr., '37, and very well written, too. The title piece, "Wake Up and Swing", and "There's No Wolf Around My Door", might fairly safely have modest success predicted for them in the great outer world. Welles and Bacon have established themselves as most versatile artists indeed. Each had a share in writing the clever book. Bacon did some of the lyrics, and played a prominent role, the broad-if none too deeply-minded Lady...
Deserting his early career in law in 1880, Morse who lived in Needham became wolf-known in literary circles with his biographies of Lincoln, Hamilton, and Franklin. Rogers continued to be a lawyer in Boston throughout his life, going regularly to his office until last Tuesday. By his own admission he lived by the motto: "He who lives moderately, lives a long time...