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...Kenilworth, Ill., Chicago suburb, Episcopalians cocked quizzical eyes as they approached their Church of the Holy Comforter one Sunday lately. The front doorway was unaccountably bricked up. A vestryman stood nearby, motioning worshippers around to a side entrance. During the service Rev. Leland Hobart Danforth explained that the Church needed $1,500. For every $5 contributed, a brick would be removed. Last week the Church of the Holy Comforter had $1,220, the doorway was almost open...
...Field Artillery Armory has better seating facilities than the Manhattan Armory so it was there last week that an Army team of Captain Candler A. ("Wilky") Wilkinson, Captain Chester E. (''Stub") Davis and Major Compton C. ("C-Square") Smith played Winston Guest's Optimists for the Danforth Cup, in the Indoor Open final. The game was delayed until nearly 10:30 p. m. so that an international radio hook-up could let Argentines hear how the ponies they sold the U. S. players last year and the Optimists were making out. Watched by a crowd...
...most delights local Gilbert & Sullivan audiences is veteran William Danforth. As the Mikado, garbed in a terrifying Shinto costume, he executes elephantine pirouettes, disgustedly squelches his interrupting female relatives with explosive "Phaughs...
...month but he still has the bristle and bustle that he had in 1897 when, aged 29, he read that Mr. Curtis of Maine had acquired the Post, a 16-page sheet of 1,800 circulation. Lorimer, a Boston newshawk, lately stenographer in the office of Chicago Packer Philip Danforth Armour,* telegraphed Mr. Curtis for an appointment, after ten minutes' conversation had a job on the Post...
Hollis-"Patience." One of best of the Gilbertian series, with the regular Civic Light Opera cast including Frank Moulan, William Danforth, and Vivian Hart. Opening Monday...