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...Sarah Frances Frost ("Julia Marlowe") "a saucer-eyed, yellow-skinned girl of mel ancholic temperament," began acting in the late 80's, when "Poor Eddie" (E. H. Sothern) was playing Brooklyn in a farce he had written. "A nice lovable boy," said his tor." family, Sothern "but he made will his never name in make an ac Frohman melodramas, and was recognized as a romantic actor after his notable success in The Prisoner of Zenda. Miss Marlowe, after three yeara of intensive training with a certain Miss Dow, her stage aunt, began to take leading parts. In 1904 they...
...reporter from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle edged to the front...
...leaped to stellar fame about the time that Richard Harding Davis, then a reporter on the Evening Sun, wrote an interview with her concerning her vocal declaration that "Brooklyn Bridge at Midnight is known as Lovers' Lane...
Holy Cross, rated as an easy winner over St. John's College of Brooklyn, received a bad scare Saturday. The Purple team was distinctly superior to the visitors, but three times lost opportunities to score by fumbling. One of the fumbles, on St. John's 10-yard line, resulted in the losers' only score, the St. John's quarterback running 90 yards for a touchdown after recovering the wet ball. Crowley's kicking and Kittredge's end runs were the cheering spots of the loosely-played game from a Holy Cross standpoint...
...Professor Robert M. Gay is a graduate of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, 1900, an A.M. of Columbia, 1901, and in 1913 he received the honorary degree of Litt. D. from Dickinson College. He has been Associate Professor and Professor of English at Goucher College in Baltimore, and since 1918 has been Professor of English and Chairman of the Department at Simmons College. Since 1922 he has also been Dean of the Graduate Division at Simmons, and he has been lecturer at Johns Hopkins and Boston University...