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...audience with such wisecracks as "Her teeth are like the Ten Commandments-all of them broken." For once, an all star company seemed as good as the sum of its parts and the play creaked seldom as it rolled rapidly across the stage. Among the stars were: Frances Starr, 42, Cecilia Loftus, 51, Jacob Ben-Ami, 38, Rollo Peters, 45, Helen Gahagan, 27, Georgette Cohan...
...socialists, pacifists, "radicals," enemies of national defense. The list was for the "guidance" of local D. A. R. chapters in Massachusetts, to know who could safely be invited to make speeches. The persons proscribed ranged from Ben Gitlow, communist, to that eminent, peace-loving scientist, President-emeritus David Starr Jordan of Stanford University.* The organizations included even such innocuities...
Engaged. E. Witherbee Black, son of Witherbee Black, of Southport, Conn., president of Black Starr & Frost (jewelry, trophies); to Miss Ruth Dean Montgomery of Manhattan...
Four years ago, while underworldly Mayor Edwin J. Brown of Seattle was away, the president of the Seattle City Council, Mrs. Bertha Knight Landes, wife of Dean Landes of the University of Washington and sister-in-law of President Emeritus David Starr Jordan of Stanford University, stepped in as acting mayor and "closed the town." The town had needed closing so badly that the Better Element was very pleased with Mrs. Landes. In 1926, it elected her Mayor of Seattle by a 5,000-vote majority...
Peggy Hopkins Joyce, collector of husbands and jewels, purchased from Black, Starr & Frost of Manhattan the finest blue diamond in the U. S. Weight: 127 carats. Cost: $300,000. She will wear it, mounted in platinum, around her neck. Her latest husband was Count Gosta Morner, from whom she was divorced...