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Carl, the elder son, finishes high school, graduates from a small Presbyterian college, marries Lillian, the home-town girl who has always adored him, and takes her off on his career of school superintendent. "The good son," he makes a success of his job, but away from the folks he falls under insidious influences. When he gets the chance to go East and work for a rich foundation he cannot understand why Lillian holds back; it takes her attempt at suicide to show him. Then Carl takes his defeat off to another small town, another small-town...
When she was 25 Patty Smith Hill was running a model kindergarten in Louisville, Ky. Grover Cleveland was President and Lillian Russell was the talk of Broadway. One day, Patty Hill's sister, Mildred, wrote a jingling little tune to which Patty fitted words. They published the song, copyrighted it, and sometimes Patty Hill would sing thus to her kindergarten children...
...last week's opening notable for Saratoga regulars was not the usual socialites but a line of 80 men perched on stools in a huge white betting shed at the far end of the grandstand. They were bookmakers, operating openly for the first time since 1907. That year Lillian Russell and "Diamond Jim" Brady went to the track every day. That year, also, Herbert Bayard Swope, now chairman of the New York State Racing Commission, was best man at Arnold Rothstein's wedding. To Saratoga last week went old John G. Cavanagh, called back to the betting ring...
Three years ago, heirs of the McFarlane brothers, who built the Opera House, presented it to Denver University. Ann Evans, Denver's Art patron, organized a scheme to make annual revivals there a reminder of the city's rowdy past. The revivals started two years ago when Lillian Gish played Camille. Last summer an audience in 1890 costume watched The Merry Widow. For last week's performance Scene Designer Robert Edmond Jones selected Othello, persuaded Walter Huston to take a six-week vacation from Dodsworth in Manhattan to appear as the Moor with Nan Sunderland (Mrs. Huston...
...reference to Lillian Taylor Briggs was in error, which TIME greatly regrets. Her father did leave her $10,000 but without any injunction. His bequest to his wife was "enough of money to get her and daughter [a Mrs. D. H. Jones] into Hell as soon as possible. My wife belittled me more than any human being ever did and I hope she and her daughter will pay for it, when they get my money to go to Hell with...