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Married. William Faversham Jr., 22, actor (The Ivory Door) and actor's son; to Sarah Q. Shaw, of Concord, Mass.; in Concord...
Died. Holbrook Blinn, 56, famed actor (Salvation Nell, The Bad Man, The Play's The Thing), son of Nellie Holbrook, actress and Republican campaign stump speaker; of blood poisoning; at Croton-on-Hudson...
...National Republican Convention that I thank you most sincerely." Then, lest politeness detract from potency, he asked that the remark be stricken from the record. But everyone remembered the politeness and before the young man left the platform he had cause to take more bows, hand over heart, actor-fashion. Everyone enjoyed it and the thunderous "No" that soon buried the Minority Platform had a chuckle...
...point out is that many of the important decisions in life are by no means evidently momentous at the time. The right and wrong of the choice may be clear, but not the seriousness of the consequences involved; because they affect not so much the outward career of the actor as his own personal character, and the result may not be manifest for a long time...
...which nothing happens so melodramatic as suicide, in fact nothing at all, except convulsive disappointment in a child's soul. Professor Cornelius looks on complacently at the party his two older children are giving to a post-War medley of friends. He notices one of them, an actor, carries with him not only the sadness of his tragic roles, but on his cheekbones a touch of carmine that was obviously of cosmetic origin. And the professor wonders vaguely why the young man "did not cling either to one thing or the other?either to his melancholy or to his rouge...