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Died. James Brander Matthews, 77, famed New Yorker; of influenza; in Manhattan. He was the son of a New Orleans businessman. Educated at Columbia University, he taught there for 32 years, holding the first chair specifically devoted to the drama in any U. S. University. He married English Actress Ada Smith (1873) who died in 1924. He wrote more than 35 books?essays, drama criticism, plays, tales. Great in geniality, he drew about him potent men of his time: William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Theodore Roosevelt. The friend of thousands, he once received a book from Mark Twain...
...Just before the War, Captain Robert A. Bartlett, who recently announced his plans to drift across the Arctic in a tub-shaped boat (TIME, Jan. 14), was wrecked there. He walked across the ice to Siberia. Almost half his party died on Wrangel Island. In 1921, four men and Ada Blackjack, Eskimo sempstress, tried to live on the island. All but Miss Blackjack died. And dead, probably, are the Russian colonists sent there two years ago. A Russian relief ship, the Stavropol, tried to reach them this winter. Last week the Stavropol's captain, back at his Siberian base...
...Californian with European experience, to make her debut as Micaela in the opening Carmen; and Antoinetta Consoli of Lawrence, Mass.. who will sing Frasquita; Marion Claire, 24-year-old Chicagoan; Hilda Burke, Baltimorean; Patricia O'Connell, Alabaman and daughter of a New York Times staff writer. Contraltos: Ada Paggi, Italian, and Coe Glade, 22-year-old Chicagoan. both onetime members of the San Carlo Company; Maria Olszewska. Tenors: Giuseppe Cavadore, Italian; and Ulysses Lappas, Greek and admired by Mary Garden, back again after several seasons' absence. Baritone: Barre Hill from Reading, Mich. Muriel Stuart, onetime member of Pavlowa...
...prominent musical educators. Will Earhart (Pittsburgh), John A. H. Keith (Harrisburg, Pa.), R. G. Jones (Cleveland), Mrs. Edgar S. Kelley (Oxford, Ohio, President of the National Federation of Music Clubs), Mabelle Glenn (Kansas City), Ada Bicking (Lansing. Mich.), Frederick A. Alden, George H. Gartlan. P. W. Dykema, Hollis Dann (Manhattan...
...Lois. 32 Baron, Edith. 5 Baylies, Ruth. S Beach, Helen Louise. 26 Bean, Julta. B Altschuler, Lillian 6 Andelman, Evelyn. 9 Antine, Hazel. 14 Anderson, Mary. 40 Beardsley, Francis. 38 Beauchamp, Juanita. 27 Bemis, Aice. 11 Bernstein, Florence. 7 Blanchard, Abby. 27 Blanchard, Estele. 52 Blettner, Edlyn. P Bloom, Ada. 22 Bordont, Irene. 21 Atwater, Mary. 31 Averill, Ada. 54 Averill, Dottie. 54 Ayres, Frances. 50 Bourneuf, Charlotte. 48 Brady, Helen. 62 Brigham, Barbara. 18 Brown, Alice. 43 Browne, Mary. 58 Bucknau, Bettins. 44 Bushway, Bunny. 28 Butler, Mary...