Word: julia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favored McClellan's reinstatement, caused "Sep" Winner to write Give Us Back Our Old Commander: Little Mac, the People's Pride. Copies of the song were confiscated; Winner was almost jailed for treason, but the song swept through the whole Union Army. In spite of the interdict, Julia Mortimer sang it in Ford's Theatre in Washington. Give Us Back Our Old Commander was used as a campaign song when McClellan ran for President against Lincoln in 1864, used again, with the name changed, when Grant was considering a third term...
...eyed Alfred, Lord Tennyson, taken in 1868 by one of the first and most ardent of amateurs, Mrs. Julia Margaret Cameron. Mrs. Cameron was the first to use deliberate distortion of focus to get a soft, painting-like quality in her prints...
...Julia got her real start in an English provincial repertory company. She had lovely legs, but she was not beautiful: she had what the director called an india-rubber face, capable of expressing any emotion at will. In short, Julia was a natural. She was working hard in the repertory company, learning fast, when she fell in love with Michael, a member of the same company. Michael was dazzlingly handsome but not much of a ladies' man, and not a very good actor except in certain limited parts. He was pleased with Julia's adoration, accepted as much...
Michael knew Julia was out of his class when it came to acting; but he had very definite ideas about a career, proceeded to fit her in. He saved money, borrowed some more, started their own London company with Julia as star. When they bought their own theatre they hit a success after two failures, went on from there. And he allowed Julia to marry him, even became quite fond of her. Julia's passion for Michael finally died a natural death. Her Maughamish reaction to the realization that she no longer loved her husband was to stretch, sigh...
...Minneapolis, Minnesota and Eliot House, and Peter R. Viereck '37, of New York and Leverett House have been awarded Henry Fellowships of 500 pounds sterling each for study at Oxford University during the coming academic year, it was announced last night by the American Trustees of the Charles and Julia Henry Fund. The fellowships were established by Lady Julia Lewisohn Henry "in earnest hope and desire of cementing the bonds of friendship between the British Empire and the United States...