Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Above is last week's schedule?the ninth week of the fourth season of Manhattan's Civic Repertory Theatre. It is a sample week in the current career of that theatre's galvanic founder-directrix, Actress Eva Le Gallienne. Monday and Saturday nights she was the dour daughter of a Russian steward. Tuesday she was a sleek and satined marquise. Saturday she was Peter Pan both morning and afternoon, zooming on concealed wires out over the heads of gasping, wonder-struck children...
...Indianapolis some 14 years ago, a healthy 12-year-old child, free from funny fixations, was taken to see Anna Pavlowa dance. The child had no notions of dancing, was to all appearances just a midwesterner with an eight-letter name?Ruth Page, daughter of Dr. Lafayette Page, now director of the James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Hospital for children in Indianapolis. But she left Pavlowa's recital starry-eyed, went home and practiced pirouettes in the parlor...
...Lolita Sheldon Armour, relict of the late great Meatpacker Jonathan Ogden Armour, and her daughter, Mrs. John J. Mitchell Jr., closed the affairs of the Armour estate in Chicago. The estate being insolvent for $2,000,000, Mrs. Armour and Mrs. Mitchell relinquished claims to loans for that amount. When he died (TIME, Aug. 29, 1927) the Chicago Journal of Commerce said of Meatpacker Armour: "He probably had the distinction of having lost more money than any man that ever lived...
Painter Robinson was born in Nova Scotia in 1876, son of a sea-captain and a farmer's daughter. He has studied in Paris, practiced in the U. S. for 30 years (newspaper cartoons, stained glass windows, smartchart layouts for Vogue, oils of every description). Large and athletic, with a greying red beard, a monkish bald spot, he likes modern French painting less than modern Mexican painting. When Mexican Diego Rivera's paintings (TIME, May 6) were first hung, seven people were shot. Says Robinson: "I'd be glad if someone stepped on a policeman...
...first-nighters at the opening of Chicago's new Civic Opera House (TIME, Nov. 4, 18). Included were: President & Mrs. James Simpson of Marshall Field & Co.; Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Walgreen (drug stores); Harold Leonard Stuart (Halsey, Stuart & Co., brokers) and his socialite sister; Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick (daughter of Founder Rockefeller, onetime wife of Trustee Harold Fowler McCormick) and her bosom socialite friend Mrs. Waller Borden; onetime Governor & Mrs. Frank Orren Lowden; Senator & Mrs. Charles Samuel Deneen; Editorial Writer & Mrs. Tiffany Blake of the Tribune; Miss Caroline ("Madame X") Kirkland, society colyumist of the Tribune; and Artist Frederick Clay...