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...when it is applied by a young writer to his own time there are few literary veins more satisfying. Author Bronson's "hero" is apparently an amalgam of the potentialities of different young men he knew at Yale, melted down into a character as thoroughly "American" as Booth Tarkington's Plutocrat. Jonathan ("Johnny," "O. K.") Green is a redheaded, good-natured ruffian from a small town in Pennsylvania. His ability to smash chins and football lines while not indulging his other animalisms too much to spoil the main chance, gets him into a good college, into Wall Street...
...Winkle apparition in the mountains, all this was Colorado's second annual Central City Play Festival, blowing on the cold ashes of the oldtime mining boom town. In the centre of Central City (year-round population: 300) is the massive stone Opera House where once Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson and Rose Coghlan played to rowdy frontier audiences, and where the Passion Play was given in stereopticon pictures. The contractor Brothers McFarlane built it in 1878 on the site of a horse corral. When the mining boom spread away to west & south, mountain rats took Central City over. Rain streaked...
...Booth is the winner of the Summer School Men's Tennis Tournament by virtue of his victory over D. S. Davis, 6-2, 6-1, 6-1, in the finals. Booth attained the final round with the aid of two defaults, but showed himself eminently qualified to meet Davis by an easy victory over A. Lazar, 6-1, 6-0 in the semifinal round, who was himself one of the favored...
About $4.00 was collected from entry fees which will go towards a prize for the winner. In the preliminary round, A. Lazar defeated D. Stern, A. L. Rottenberg defeated H. Schortland, E. E. Mitchell defeated H. H. Stavsky, B. A. Booth defeated J. E. Stevens, F. L. Woodman defeated J. F. Riesman, W. H. Clark defeated A. D. Baldwin, D. S. Davis defeated F. W. Baldwin, and Ellis Jandron defeated Robert Schafor. In the quarter-finals, Lazar triumphed over Rottenberg, 6-3, 6-2. Booth got a win from Mitchell by default; Woodman downed Clark in a stirring battle...
Resting place of many of America's most distinguished dead among them Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Sumner, Edward Everett, Louis Agassiz, Phillips Brooks, Charlotte Cushman, Edwin Booth, Charles W. Eliot, Julia Ward Howe and Mary Baker Eddy. Noted for its famous statues and monuments, including those of John Winthrop, John Adams, James Otis and Joseph Story. The Sphinx, the work of Martin Milmore, is a greatly-admired statue. Open daily...