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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story was told me by a friend of Jascha Heifetz. Not long ago it seems Heifetz was dining in a little restaurant near Paris in which there played a small, very ordinary orchestra. Halfway through the evening Heifetz got up and offered to take the violinist's place. So enthusiastically was he, and unknown, receive that the manager immediately offered him a job at something like $2 an evening...
...cast, especially to Arthur Lake, for assuming Mormonism so successfully. The plot contains all forms of interest save the one that might make them interesting, the most virulent source of its pathos being unrequited love tenderly softened by the inevitable strains of "A Boy's Best Friend is his Mother." The only reasons for subjection to this form of entertainment are Olive Borden and the desire to refresh dimming memories of Revere Beach...
Died. Sir Edward James Pollock, 89, longtime official referee of Britain's Supreme Court of Judicature* after a decline following his wife's death last year at London. Died. Linda Richards, 89, first U S graduate trained nurse (1873), good friend of Britain's famed Florence Nightingale; at New England Hospital for Women & Children. Roxbury. Mass., where she trained...
...first copies of the revived magazine were being perused by readers, last week, Percival Harden, 54, sat down on a chair in a Manhattan hotel, put a pistol against his breast, killed himself. His lawyer & friends gave as the reason his grief at having to relinquish "his old interests." Then was it the duty of newspapers to report on the life of Gossipist Harden a report which read much like an oldtime Harden-published gossip paragraph-married first Maude Sullivan, Chicago artists' model; won $10,000 for alienation of affections from his friend, William T. Hoops, who later...
...differ in the slightest degree from that of the interior of the new Houses, he has carefully prepared a suitable quantity of the Right Sort of paint for their emergent petals. This goes to show that, after all is said and done, the little fellow is indeed a staunch friend of the Corporation...