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Died. Sam Bernard,** 63, German-character comedian, who celebrated in March his 50th year of acting; of apoplexy; in the smoking-room of the North German Lloyd Liner Columbus. He appeared in Nearly a Hero, All for the Ladies, Friendly Enemies, As You Were...
...when Theodore Roosevelt, then President, reviewed The Children of the Night, which Mr. Robinson had written in a barn at Gardiner, Me. Mr. Roosevelt secured him a position in the New York Customs House. He is now employed by Ledoux & Co. (ores) in John Street, Manhattan. On his 50th birthday (1919) a symposium of authors acclaimed him in the New York Times as greatest living U. S. poet. Twice since then, for Collected Poems (1921) and The Man Who Died Twice (1924), judges have deemed his poetry worthy of Pulitzer Prizes...
...more like a Spanish matador than an orchestra leader, has never visited the U. S. In Europe his fame is wide-as one-time guest conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic, as organizer of Wagner festivals in Vienna, Frankfurt, Salzburg. This summer he will be a leading figure at the 50th anniversary of the Wagner festival at Bayreuth...
...through express. His mission (it was in 1902) was to foment good will; and perhaps, when he returned to Germany, he confided only to his "brother Bill" the tale of "Wake up, Hen!" But last week, at Kiel, Prince Henry recalled the story as he celebrated the 50th anniversary of his entrance into the Imperial Navy...
...invited Manhattan celebrities to the opening of his new "cathedral of motion picture," world's largest theatre. They came-the Mayor, actors, chorines, bankers, merchants, lawyers. They beheld a vast, bronzed, Spanish Renaissance structure imposing its Moorish splendor upon the corner of Seventh Ave. and 50th St., in the backyard neighborhood of Broadway, otherwise asprawl with garages, night clubs, hotdog stands, pawn-jewelers. Inside it was golden-brown, well ventilated, pagan-like in its florid adornment. Three organists played in grand concert on a Kimball organ, which is said to have the properties of a symphony orchestra. Then came...