Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...person of Doree Leslie. Too many shows have ridden through Boston on their reputation in the past and it is a real pleasure to be able to honestly recommend the cast which supports Ed Wynn as at least the equal of that which appeared with him in New York...
...York Manual" is a fifteenth century manuscript written in English and Latin and bearing the early musical notations for hymns. Other interesting volumes are a prayer book printed in London in 1634, including "Some particular formes of Prayer for the English Colonies and Plantations in New England, Virginia, etc." and a Bible which belonged to Samuel Johnson and contains several chapters in his handwriting. The designs for the illustrations of the latter work are taken from Durer's series of prints entitled. "The Apocalypse." Original impressions of this entire series are also on display...
...show will be presented in Cambridge on April 3, 4, and 5, and in New York on the following Monday, April 8. There are 25 in the east, including a chorus representing Cambridge firemen and girls of the period...
Born in dismal Hoboken, N.J., in 1864, Stieglitz went to private and public schools and to the College of the City of New York. Following his father's wishes, he studied mechanical engineering. But photochemistry and photography allured him, and he turned to these subjects, receiving a thorough Germanic induction at the Berlin Polytechnic School and the University of Berlin (1888-90). Returning to Manhattan, he practiced photo-engraving for three years, experimented in three-color work, married Emmeline Obermeyer of New York. Then, in 1895, at 31, he "retired...
...first New York Stock Exchange seat to be sold since the adoption of the 25% membership increase brought, last week, $625,000, the same figure as for the last seat sold prior to the increase. But last week's purchase included the seat with its extra one-fourth right; in other words, five-fourths of a seat was purchased. Thus a precedent was established for valuing each quarter-seat at $125,000 and a seat at $500,000. The seat was bought by Ferdinand A. Straus from Robert L. Leeds, Mr. Leeds purchased his seat early in January, paid...