Fall of a Nation review at Liberty Theatre sparks debate
Thomas Dixon latest sensational photoplay The Fall of a Nation shown in New York with Victor’s score. The large audience witnessed brutal battles and melodrama as pacifist defense arguments are dramatized alongside a Klan memory motif and a Loyal League of American women plot. The film's spectacle and music impress but critics question whether it matches The Birth of a Nation.
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Willard
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Kaiser
Barker
Philadelphia
Boston Harbor
Europe
Victor Herbert
42Nd St
Broadway
Jury Vindicates Bulldog In Court Case Over Mastiff Bite
In Fifth District Court Jack the English bulldog was shown as exhibit in a suit by Mrs. Catherine Deane who claimed Pluto a 180 pound mastiff died after being bitten. The jury found for the defendant after an hour deliberation, reducing damages to a nominal amount.
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Fifth District Court
Pluto
Catherine Deane
Manhattan Avenue
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Charles Kingston
Darcy Kaimpion
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Carl Ellis
Charles Steghert
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A. Miller
West Fortythird
Exopinion
Yale Bowl Walküre Stirs Open Air Opera Experiment
Despite threatening weather about 20000 attendees witnessed an open air Die Walküre at Yale Bowl. The acoustics and electric effects drew praise and a plan to tour the Midwest with the same production. Principal singers included Mme Johanna Gadski and Johannes Sembach with Arthur Bodanzky conducting the Metropolitan Opera orchestra.
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New York Times
New Haven
Conn
Wagner
Yale Bowl
Kronberg
Metropolitan Opera Singers
Middle West
Pittsburgh
Yale School of Music
Manne
Premium auction for Passing Show 1914 benefits War Relief Fund
Premium seats for the Winter Garden premiere of The Passing Show of 1914 will be sold at auction the week of June 19. Proceeds go to the British French Belgian Permanent Blind War Relief Fund for Soldiers and Sailors. George A. Kessler will supervise with the Shubert and committee members. The theatre keeps regular revenue. premiums support charity.
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Winter Garden
Messrs. Shubert
George A. Kessler
Julia Sanderson Weds Lt. Bradford Barnette in Greenwich Church
Musical comedy actress Julia Sanderson married Lt. Bradford Barnette U S N at noon in the Presbyterian Church at Greenwich Connecticut. The ceremony was conducted by Rev F M Carson. The couple plans a trip to the Adirondacks and Sanderson will appear in Sybil next season.
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Bradford Barnette
Greenwich
Conn
F. M. Carson
Albert Sackett
William Jay Barnette
Adirondacks
United States Naval Academy At
Annapolis
Navy
United States Hydraphic Bureau
Broad S
W. G. Barnette
Boston
Miss Sanderson
Sybil
the Liberty
Film Censorship Fight Leaders Plan National Campaign
Movie industry representatives meet at Delmonico's to plan campaigns against censorship bills in state legislatures and Congress. The group aims to leverage past veto successes and push for coordinated action across twenty two states and a national bill. Mary Garden may join film efforts, with offers from major studios including Mutual Vitagraph and Urban companies.
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National Congress
Whitman
Congress
Mary Garden
David Horsley
Mutual Film Corporation
Vitagraph
Charles Urban
Horsley
Miss Garden
California
Theatrical Notes Highlight Early Summer Stage Moves
The Aborn Opera Company ends six weeks at Bronx Opera House with Balfe's The Bohemian Girl, starring Dunstan, Taylor, Fein, and Veron. Sybil Frisby competes for women’s golf title at Ballustol Club, Short Hills. Duncan planned US tour. Isadora Duncan to return in October. Ziegfeld Follies debut at Apollo AC. Friars Frolic tickets exceed $4,000 in sales. Halton adds a comedy picture to a Hil ton program with a MacDods screen version.
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Marie Tem
Maxine Elliott Theatre
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England
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Kathryn Browne Decker
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Caliban
City College
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Buenos Aitres
Mies Duncan
United States
Canada
Frederick Ho Oteye
Earl Kitchener
Britain
Hippodrome
Jr Sir Herbert
Barnard Class Of 1916 Holds Sentimental Barnard Farewell
Barnard College's 1916 graduates gathered in Columbia Gym for Class Day with songs, speeches, and the valedictory by Mercedes J. Moritz. Miss Lorenz received the von Wahl Prize and delivered the valedictory on social conscience and reform.
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Columbia University
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Juliet Steinthal
Emma Selpp
Mercedes J. Moritz
Louise Talbot
Hew Schiff
Harriet Seibert
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Hetty Alexander
Daisy M. Appleby
Dorothy M. Blondel
Ida M. B. Cheatham
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Jeanne H. Jacoby
Theresa Levy
Carol R. Lorenz
Ida P. Rolf
Gertrude Schuyler
Emma Seipp
Eleanor ¥. Wallace
Mabel Well
Dean Gildersleeve
von Wahl
Wood Urges Compulsory Military Training at Hoboken
Major General Leonard Wood addressed Stevens Institute graduates in Hoboken calling for universal military service modeled on Switzerland and Australia. He argued training strengthens manhood and national spirit, reduce religious or racial strife, and warned against divided loyalties amid global tensions.
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Stevens Institute of Technology
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Australia
America
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Columbia to Award Honorary Degrees at 162d Commencement
Joseph Hodges Choate will receive a Doctor of Laws honorary degree along with Governor Samuel Walker McCall and Bishop Arthur Hall. Edwin Blashfield and Edwin Anderson also receive advanced degrees, while George Clover earns a Master of Arts. Franklin Giddings will present the candidates as Dr Butler confers. Columbia grants 2212 degrees this year, a record for the university.
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Great Britain
Columbia University
Nicholas Murray Butler
Samuel Walker McCall
Massachusetts
Arthur Crawshay Alliston Hall
Vermont
Edwin Howland Blashfield
American Institute of Arts and Letters
Butler
Columbia
Senior class plants ivy at Teachers College ceremony
Four hundred ten students participated in a class day program at Horace Mann auditorium. Miss Helen Tuttle of New York City gave the welcome, Miss Ethel Moffatt rang the roll, Miss Dorothy Elizabeth Storms read the history, and Miss Mildred Memory with Miss Genevieve Howell presented the class prophecy.
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Teachers College
Horace Mann
Teachers Colege
Helen Tuttle
New York City
Ethel Moffatt
New York
Dorothy Elizabeth Storms
Dobbs Ferry
Mildred Memory
Manhattan
Genevieve Y. Howell
Brooklyn
Ivy plantings and a New York guest line at Milbank College
Miss Loretta Brady and Miss Alma Booth of New York City handed out knocks during readings. Miss Martha Christiana Squires spoke for the graduate class and presented a general use table. Paul Monroe acted as dean to accept the table. The ivy planting ceremony closed exercises at Milbank with Miss Blanche Gittinger delivering the ivy oration. An afternoon lawn tea followed on the Green at Amsterdam Avenue and 120th Street.
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Alma Booth
New York City
Martha Christiana Squires
Paul Monroe
Milbank
Blanche Gittinger
Amsterdam Avenue
120Th
NYU Class Day Exercises Highlighting Seniors Honors
NYU seniors held class day ceremonies on Battery Hall with speeches by Hugo Campagnoli and others. The program included a class history reading, a prophecy, poems, and the ivy planting ceremony. About 500 graduates will receive degrees, with six honorary degrees to be awarded.
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Ex Square
Merce
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Northminster Presbyterian Church
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Wiliam S. Woolworth
Frank Herbert van Laun
Phillips Carlin
William Darling
Theodore Roosevelt
Wilson
Justice Hughes
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Frank Knarman
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Herbert Schiffer
Giles Courtney
Edwin Mayer
Harold Karl Johnson
SOO
Gould Memorial Library
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George Alexander
University Place Presbyterian Church
Francis Lucas
Joseph Russell Garland
Vassar Honors 247 Graduates At Simple Commencement
Poughkeepsie June 6 247 students received diplomas at Vassar commencement marked by simplicity with no orations or essays. President Henry Noble MacCracken gave the address on Everyman's Hamlet stressing humanity as Vassar's study. Degrees conferred by Dr MacCracken. Alumnae luncheon and senior class dinner followed, with one quarter confessing engagements. Several prizes and fellowships announced including Elizabeth Dana prize Phyllis Carbaugh and Furness Shakespeare prize Eleanor Taylor.
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W. C. P. Rhoades
Brooklyn
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Marcuerita Phillips
Newark
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Pittsburgh
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Trenton
N. J
William Borden Memorial Fund
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Yonkers
Alice Bdak
Buffalo
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West Roxbury
Mass
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Newton Center
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Lois Treadwell
Pougaarcos
Josephine M. Gleason
Margaret M. Sherwood
Mary PP. Neurs
Young prodigy Berle graduates from Harvard Law at 21
Adolf A. Berle Jr of Cambridge graduates from Harvard Law School at 21, second youngest to earn the degree. He plans to join a Brandeis associated firm after passing the bar exam. Berle entered Harvard at 13, earned a BA at 17 and an MA the next year, won the Fay Scholarship, and will deliver the law school valedictory.
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Mass
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Harvard
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Norbert Wiener
Harvard Law School
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Brandeis
He Fay
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Gifts to University of Chicago Reach Almost 3 Million
President Judson announced at graduation that gifts totaling nearly 3 million dollars were received in the last year. Major donors include Hobart Williams with 2 million and La Verne Noyes with 500 thousand, plus smaller gifts from various individuals. 739 degrees were conferred as Roscoe Pound and others received honorary or advanced degrees while John D. Rockefeller Jr. spoke on behalf of his father who founded the university.
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Hobart Williams
Harvard Law School
Henry Churchill King
Oberlin College
William Coleman Bitting
Atlouts
William Henry Welsh
Johns Hopkins University
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Forty In Wells Graduating Class at Wells College
Forty senior women formed the largest Wells College class in history at Aurora. The Trustees announced a $214.50 raise toward the General Education Board’s $100,000 conditional gift, leaving $186,000 still required and an extension of time under consideration.
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Tornado Toll Exceeds One Hundred Across Four States
A southern storm left about 100 dead and hundreds injured across Arkansas Missouri Illinois and Mississippi. Casualties blamed on towns including Poplar Bluff Jackson and Judsonia with widespread property and crop damage running into the millions. The steamer Eleonore capsized in the Mississippi River near Memphis with several missing and presumed dead.
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Coykendall Elected Alumni Trustee at Columbia
Frederick Coykendall, Columbia University alumnus from class of 1800 and 1807 Mines, was elected yesterday as an alumni Trustee at the Alumni Federation convention. He becomes the eighth alumni elected Trustee under the new six alumnus system and serves as President of the Alumni Association and Vice President of the Alumni Federation.
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Columbia
Frederick Coykendall
Columbia University
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