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...Painter Blythe became engaged to pretty, popular Julia Keffer of East Liverpool, settled down over a store in Uniontown, Pa., seat of Fayette County. He was commissioned to carve a huge wooden statue of Lafayette for the new county courthouse, which made citizens of nearby Waynesburg, seat of Greene County, want a similar monument to General Greene. When he asked $300 for the job, Waynesburgers hotly replied that they did'"not propose to give him the whole county for his work," hired a local craftsman. Painter Blythe retorted with a long poem in the Uniontown newspaper criticizing Waynesburg...
There followed shortly the two great blows of David Blythe's life. Pretty Julia Keffer died a year after he married her. He painted an enormous panorama of western Pennsylvania landscapes and historical scenes, mounted it on rollers and dreamed of making a fortune by taking it on tour. In its premiere at Uniontown, Pa. the last scene, a realistic canvas of a thunderstorm, so scared the more naive spectators that they refused to leave the theatre until assured that no thunder was crashing outside. But the tour flopped, the panorama was cut up to make theatrical backdrops. Painter...
...Henry Fund was founded by the late Lady Julia Lewisohn Henry "in the earnest hope and desire of cementing the bonds of friendship between the British Empire and the United States." The Fellowships are given to English students for study at American universities and to American students for study at English universities in alternate years. Each is valued at five hundred pounds sterling and is for one year of study at either Oxford or Cambridge...
Robert C. Hall '36 of Brookline, Sidney S. Alexander '36 of Forest City, Pa., and August C. Helmholz, 2d '36 of Rochester, Minn., are the three Harvard Seniors who have been chosen to receive the Charles and Julia Henry Fund Fellowships for study at Oxford and Cambridge Universities during the next academic year...
These were shows dedicated to girls, among them a stage star, Julia Sanderson, whom Frank married in 1927. They now co-star on the networks. To Ohio U., Frank Crumit, ex 12, has dedicated two songs. The Buckeye Battle Cry of Ohio State is also Frank's work, as is Gay Cabaliero. The latter is one of those things Frank can really deliver...