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...plants he built big utilities-and built them well, for they still stand, still make money. Ultimately his domain of well-managed power plants stretched across 32 states into Canada, served 5,300 towns and cities, furnished electricity to 10,000,000 people. In 1899 he married Margaret A. Bird, an actress who had been a star with Daly. Her stage name was Gladys Wallis and her husband always called her Gladys. Their home was at No. 23 Lake Shore Drive (now No. 1,100) in one of the first apartment buildings built on Chicago's Gold Coast. There...
...full-panoplied from the aching head of Uncle Sam. Critics who always lift an eyebrow at such new arrivals noted a few chinks in her armor, but to the gaping crowd of plain citizens she seemed indeed a well-armed lady. Her utterance was racier than classic, and the bird of wisdom on her shoulder looked more like a mockingbird than an owl. But she was obviously a messenger of the gods, and Publishers Simon & Schuster announced her as such. The Unpossessed is the latest news from the U. S. "intellectual" front. Far from being a funny story (except perhaps...
...Mesdames L. M. Ferguson, Alexander Whiteside, James M. Hunnewell, John H. Paine, W. L. H. Lothrop, Charles Walcott, Frederic Winthrop, Paul Killiam, Thomas N. Perkins, Andrew J. Peters, Alvin F. Sortwell, Charles J. Bullock, Richard Lawrence, Godfrey L. Cabot, Richard P. Waters, Atherton Noyes, Thomas B. Gannett, R. W. Bird, Samuel D. Warren, Conrad P. Hathaway, James B. Ayer, Oakes Ames, F. J. O. Alsop, Campbell Bosson...
...Edward S. Harkness, J. Watson Webb. Mr. & Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson (Joan Whitney) sent their Don Vincente Osorio, Count of Trastamara as a Child from their huge living room in Manhasset. Jules Bache lent his often exhibited Don Manuel Osorio, an engaging infant half-surrounded by three cats, a bird cage, a tame magpie. Chicago's Art Institute was represented by six small canvases showing a monk accurately and amusingly shooting and capturing a bandit. All the other pictures were portraits: the aloof La Tirana, an actress whom legend has included among Goya's mistresses; Mr. Mellon...
...just a dainty bird, my fans are my wings, and the spotlight is the moon," declared Sally Rand as she discussed her famed dance with a CRIMSON reporter in the dressing room of a Cleveland theatre last week. "My dance isn't immoral, it requires art like any other dance and if you don't believe it, you might try it some time." The reporter declined Miss Rand's kind invitation and decided to take her word for it, as he watched her twirl a large white fan over her head with graceful movements...