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...Booth Tarkington's Bristol Glass (comedy of life on the Maine Coast) will open at the Blackstone Theatre, Chicago, April 9, with Frank McGlynn (of Abraham Lincoln], Gregory Kelly, Ruth Gordon and Frederick Perry in the cast. The piece is scheduled for an autumn opening...
...Finance Section under the Chairmanship of Willis H. Booth, Vice President of the Guaranty Trust Co., New York, approved a resolution presented by the American delegation calling upon the Governments of all countries to form an international conference, to which the world's business men would be invited, to settled the outstanding European financial and economic problems. Fred I. Kent, Vice President of the Bankers Trust Co. of New York, made a strong speech in favor of this resolution...
...Booth was elected president of the International Chamber. It is the first time that an American has held this office. Five years ago he was elected vice president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Later he became a member of the Senior Council and is now an honorary vice president of the Chamber and chairman of its Foreign Commerce Department Committee...
Died: Mrs. I. V. Taylor (Ida Vernon), actress, 80, in Sheldon, Vt. Her first part was in A Midsummer Night's Dream, played at the Boston Theatre in 1856. She was a friend of Edwin Booth, who left her a legacy at his death. Later she played with Mrs. Fiske and William Hodge. Her best remembered plays were East Lynne, which she played for 120 nights in Richmond, and The Two Orphans...
...Shaksperean actors in the past, men like Booth, have set an almost impossibly high standard for the actors of today. The natural tendency is for people to criticize performances of Shakspere in terms of performances of the same play that they have seen before, and they are usually able to find things not to their liking. On the other hand, there have been no standards set for the "popular" plays and musical comedies, and the people who go to presentations of Shakspere with critical minds, go to the others in search of nothing more than an evening of casual pleasure...