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...Patterson, President of Liberty: "Some seem to hold a mistaken impression that this narrative . . . 'The Heartbreak of a Queen'. . . in some way reflects upon the late Queen Alexandra. Nothing could be farther from the fact...
...Dayton, Ohio, the National Cash Register Co. maintains a private museum. Here appear a vast array of cash registers, each with its neat descriptive sign. John Henry Patterson, developer of the company, who died in 1922, established this uniue museum years back. Into it he put old models of his own concern, and models from firms which it had absorbed or which had otherwise gone out of business. But cash registers made by successful competitors had no place in the display because, so say present N. C. R. salesmen, the National Cash Register never recognized competition, ignored it, sold...
...down blustery Michigan Avenue to the Auditorium, entered a cathedral and was struck with awe and wonderment. It found that Karl Volloemer's great pantomime, as presented by Messrs. Comstock and Gest, staged by Max Reinhardt and acted by Lady Diana Manners, Iris Tree and Chicago's own Elinor Patterson, was everything that London and Manhattan had said...
Folk who went night after night fell to comparing the performances of the three actresses who appeared in turn as the nun. They thought that Miss Patterson and Lady Diana brought the greatest spirituality to the part, that Miss Tree had not quite their ethereal innocence together with the sense of warm, alert youth that is required. Miss Patterson, like her debutante predecessor, Miss Rosamond Pinchot of Manhattan, enjoyed a special triumph; and the story went the rounds again of how she had made her social debut last year on condition that her parents let her become an actress another...
Died. William Christopher Patterson, 84, famed as "the world's oldest hangman and first electrocutioner," noted executioner of 54 persons in Auburn prison; at Hornell, N. Y., while peacefully asleep. Leon Czolgosz, famed assassin of President McKinley, was considered by Mr. Patterson the most notable criminal whom he executed. The press, however, accorded tremendous publicity to his execution of one Kemmler, a wife slayer, in the first electric chair actually put into use. He also superintended the electrocution of Mary Farmer, first woman to die in the chair. When questioned, shortly before his death as to whether he thought...