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...Guggenheim fortune began with laces and embroideries in Philadelphia, whither Meyer Guggenheim migrated from Switzerland in 1848. Meyer and Barbara Myers Guggenheim had seven sons. Daniel went to Switzerland when he was but 17 to buy goods for the Philadelphia store. While he was away his father invested in some Colorado mines. When Daniel returned to the U. S. the family moved their lace & embroidery business, as M. Guggenheim's Sons, to Manhattan...
Chester Alan Arthur Jr., 28, of Santa Barbara, Cal., grandson of the late Republican President of the U. S., is a sailor on a freighter, intends to write a nautical novel. Last week, on shore leave in Philadelphia, he said he had supported Alfred Emanuel Smith in the recent election, had once been jailed in Boston for ballyhooing the Sinn Fein movement...
...BARBARA NEWBERRY...
...Married. Barbara Prudence Barnard of Manhattan, daughter of Sculptor George Grey Barnard; and Gordon MacGregor of Manhattan; in Sculptor Barnard's Cloisters (personally collected group of medieval art), a branch of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...
...York, has built up large, supplementary subscription lists: Chicago, 7,000; Boston and Philadelphia, 5,000 each; Baltimore, 3,500; Cleveland, 2,000. Last fortnight's anniversary news was the addition of Washington, Cincinnati, Detroit, St. Louis, as Guild cities. Among plays to be offered are: Caprice, Major Barbara, Pygmalion, Wings Over Europe, R. U. R., Strange Interlude, Marco Millions, Volpone. A rotational system among the actors will assure each circuit city of the best Guild talent.* No matter what players tread the Guild's stage, stardom is avoided. Names are not posted in lights outside the theatre...