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...Sidney Ross Gallery an imposing show of the "Theatre in Art" was held for the benefit of the Actors Fund. It was an important collection. Its sponsors assembled portraits of actors, back stage sketches, scenes of circuses, vaudeville, burlesque and grand opera by such potent names as Thomas Benton, Guy Pene du Bois, Alexander Brook, Antonio Salemme. Critics applauded...
...Jean Toomer's grandfathers was Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, a mulatto carpet-bagger who became Acting Governor of Louisiana but was refused a U. S. Senate seat in 1876. After attending the University of Wisconsin. Jean Toomer became an exponent of Georges Gurdjieff, the Armenian-Greek cultist who founded the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau, France, and whose most famed disciple was the late Katherine Mansfield (TIME, March 24, 1930). Last autumn Disciple Toomer took a mixed party of eight, all white except himself, to a farmhouse outside Portage, birthplace of Novelist Latimer...
...Benton Spangler Wood, of Honolulu, Hawaii...
...Benton Spangler of Honolulu, Hawail...
...church in Benton, 111., gathered the many friends of Stephen R. Patton. So. for his funeral. A quartet sang several hymns. The minister arose and preached the funeral sermon in a solemn, emotional voice, told how Stephen R. Patton had spent many wicked years before he became a Christian. In the mourners bench, behind piles of funeral wreaths, sat Stephen R. Patton himself. Tears gleamed in his eyes. Said he: ''It takes something like this to show a man how many friends he has." The friends had planned to give him a birthday party; he had begged for a funeral...