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...Author. Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge's ancestry is a rich mixture. Some of his forbears: Benjamin Franklin. Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, Artist John La Farge (grandfather), Architect Christopher Grant La Farge (father). Manhattan-born (1901), Author La Farge is called "Ink" by his intimates, has spent most of his life at Saunderstown, R. I. For schooling he naturally went to Groton, inevitably to Harvard. There he became one of the leading literary figures of his class, spent his summers on university archeological expeditions to Arizona and Utah. Later he investigated Indians and temples in Guatemala and Mexico, wrote...
...will be presented in Agassiz Theatre on Thursday and Friday November 19 and 20. The play, a comedy in three acts and a prologue, was dramatized by Kane Campbell from the book of the same name by "Elizabeth," German novelist. Rehearsals will begin immediately under the direction of Mrs. Benjamin Sibley, coach of the Brookline Amateurs and will beheld regularly for the next three weeks. Tickets will be on sale after November 12 at Agassiz House in the Radcliffe Yard...
...this was brought on by the fact that Professor Mathiessen is lecturing today on Benjamin Franklin. Franklin may have had feet of plaster, but it was the plaster of Paris. A man once wrote a book about Franklin and called him "The First Civilized American." There are some who will sneer cynically and say that, granting this was true, he was also the last...
...president of the New York Sun, took a bulky envelope to an apartment in Manhattan's then-fashionable Fifth Avenue Hotel. He was ceremoniously received by an imperious little old lady, her sister and her daughter. The little old lady was Ida Mayfield Wood, whose husband, Col. Benjamin Wood, brother of onetime Mayor Fernando Wood of Manhattan, had died the year before. Col. Wood had been publisher of the New York Daily News* a Tammany Hall mouthpiece which lifted most of its news and somehow managed to earn $100,000 a year. Since her husband's death...
Sued. Dorothy Benjamin Caruso (Ingram), widow of Enrico Caruso; by Dorothy Russell Calvit. daughter of the late Actress Lillian Russell Moore. Mrs. Calvit claimed Mrs. Caruso had a $50,000 diamond & emerald ring of her mother's which the actress entrusted to her husband, the late Alexander Pollock Moore, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Spain. New York State Supreme Court Justice McGeehan instructed Mrs. Caruso to show cause why she should not answer questions concerning the ring...