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...other parts of town, other galleries honored two of the U. S. drama's ablest decorators: tousle-haired Robert Edmond Jones at the Bourgeois Galleries, swart Jo Mielziner at Marie Sterner...
Musical Chicagoans were scurrying around last week trying to raise the $500,000 necessary to insure another season of opera when suddenly a sterner blow struck them. Opera in Chicago has often been in a precarious way financially. But last week it was the Symphony which sent out an unexpected distress call, announced that it would suspend concerts next year unless a sufficient guarantee could be raised in advance...
...fact that their pictures were shown last week in the gallery of Mrs. Marie Sterner, a lady of impeccable taste, was proof that the portraits of the Sisters de Hellebranth are worthy of serious consideration. Among the sitters who have had to choose between their canvases are Admiral Horthy, Regent of Hungary; Cardinal Seredi; Countess Laszlo (Gladys Vanderbilt) Szechenyi; Mrs. Nicholas Longworth and her daughter Paulina; Senator William Edgar Borah. After just deliberation Mrs. Borah bought Bertha's picture. Mrs. Longworth could not make up her mind, took both...
...times of stress is beneficial. The young man entering a fool's paradise from his university may conceive of life as a series of halycon days interspersed with a few unexplainable storms, but he who graduates in the collapse of this paradise will have greater respect for the sterner virtues, which, come to the front in stormy days...
...rabbit which is Leverett House," he said with biblical grandeur. It was as he picked Bunny Leverett up by his long aristocratic ears, holding it aloft so that every one could see, that the immortal nature of the rabbit was discovered; its sawdust interior was felt to be of sterner stuff than the ordinary run of toy store rabbits...