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...Toronto, Miss Ada Mackensie whipped her ball over the tough hassocks of the Royal Ottawa Golf course. After her tumbled a varied field of golfers, women who had come to compete in the Canadian Women's Open. Accoutred perhaps less gaudily than MacFarlane (above) but assuredly more seasonably, in homespun skirts and woolie whatnots, they played for four days, played until all the able U. S. women had been eliminated? until only Mrs. Alexa Sterling Fraser was left to face Miss Macken-sie?until Mrs. Fraser too, at the end of 26 holes, succumbed...
...would have taken him longer to read. Merely a list of his sitters is a comprehensive British and U. S. Hall of Fame of the last half century. Statesmen like Woodrow Wilson, John Hay; men of affairs like Lord Ribblesdale, Theodore Roosevelt; actors, actresses like Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson, Ada Rehan, Ellen Terry; authors, educators, beauties, generals, industrialists. Though he announced in 1903 that he would paint no more portraits, he occasionally broke his rule, twice to make it possible for future generations to scrutinize the incomparable countenance of John D. Rockefeller...
...Johnston, Chairman, Miss Adeline Nichols; P. C. Murfitt, Miss Ada Gray; S. W. Whiting, Miss Christine Lane: W. K. Woolman, Miss Pauline Carl; E. S. Daniell, Miss Hazel Damon: R. Jones III, Miss Margaret Peffer...
...specialized in their parents' several talents. Robert M. Jr. is his father's junior partner in politics. Philip is carrying on in his father's shoes as a lawyer. Fola, after an apprenticeship in the woman suffrage movement, went on the stage, played ingenue parts with Ada Rehan, played with Leo Ditrichstein, and then suddenly left the stage to marry playwright George Middleton. The youngest, Mary, studied...
...Alfred Sze, Chinese Minister to the U. S.; Sir Joseph Duveen, art patron; Arne Borg, Swedish swimming champion; Mrs. B. Schinasi, wife of the famed cigarette manufacturer; Hiram H. Walker, distiller of "Canadian Club" whiskey; Miss Abby Rockefeller, daughter of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; Samuel Insull, Chicago Opera patron; Ada May, late of Lollipop...