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Crawford Allen, Mississippi Negro, lay sick abed in his shanty just across the Louisiana line. It was night and his wife Anna slept deeply beside him. Nearby slept his three pickaninnies, Teelie, Lewis, Myra. None of the Aliens had any clothes on; it was August...
...surprising," said members of Congress when they heard that President Coolidge had appointed one Mrs. Anna G. M. Tillinghast as Commissioner of Immigration at Boston. She had been opposing the reelection) of Frank W. Stearns' son-in-law to the chairmanship of the Massachusetts Republican Committee...
...Pittsburgh, Mrs. Celia Freedel's 7-month-old pup bit Mrs. Freedel and her daughter Miss Anna Freedel; also their neighbors, Mrs. Rebecca Labowitz and Mr. Charles Rice. That made Mrs. Freedel think the young dog was sick. So she took it to the Animal Rescue League, whose veterinarians diagnosed the ailment as dumb rabies, the variety in which the sick beast remains quiet and sullen until an overcurious human pokes at it. This dog died; the four rabies victims are receiving Pasteur treatment, and Pittsburgh has a "mad dog" scare...
Married. Frank W. Savin, 76, second oldest member of the New York Stock Exchange; to one Anna Mary Schleis, 41, onetime chambermaid in his home; in Port Chester, N. Y. She, Czechoslovakian and his fourth bride, assured the other servants that she would "still consider the members of the household my equals." Charles Edy Monroe, quinquagenarian, Mr. Savin's adopted son, apologized to newsgatherers for having imbibed a few too many "holiday spirits"; vouchsafed "You can say there will be no honeymoon trip...
...paid to ordinary, familiar realities. The players confess themselves actors of parts, paint their faces with unusual pigments in strange designs, interpret their mysterious emotions before impressionistic scenery. As artists detached from the world on the other side of the footlights, they breathe unmistakable intensity into their roles. Anna Rovina, who plays Leah, the body haunted by the restless spirit of her dead lover, is heralded as one of the world's greatest actresses. In gesture and movement, she speaks eloquently to those in the audience with whom she cannot communicate through the medium of language...