Hard Life for Embryo Actresses in Stage Training
The article chronicles the harsh realities for young actresses in training, detailing long rehearsal calls, unpaid learning periods, and fines for absences. It notes models' work, limited pay, and the lure of footlights amid societal debates on labor, education, and women’s welfare led by the Young Women’s Christian Association reforms and a new two year program under Grace Dodge and Helen Gould.
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New York
Grand Opera
Fifth Avenue
Ani
United States
Fke
Young Women's Christian Association
School of Industrial Training and Applied Art
Young Christian Association
Grace Dodge
Helen Gould
National Board
Elizabeth Wilson
National School
Caroline B. Dow
Ous Assoc
Drawing as the syntax of arts inspires education
Dr. James P. Honey urged drawing as the foundation of all handwork in public schools at the International Art Congress in London. He argued design, planning, and practical drawing foster vocational skill, taste, and civic pride, citing U S teaching from kindergarten to high school and American school examples.
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James P. Honey
New York
Royal College of Science
London
Honey
National Society For the Promotion of
America
Dr. Honey
New York City
Arthur W. Dow
United States
Panama Canal Nurses Forge A Life Of Service And Comfort
Nearly two hundred women work as nurses in the Panama Canal Zone, many from wars in Japan Cuba and Spain. They enjoy good salaries and housing, four hour shifts, and social facilities at Ancon, Colón and St Thomas. The German and American hospitals, gardens and clubs support exhausting work while nurses pursue tropical disease study and recreation in a lush, committed community.
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Panama Canal
Canal Zone
Japan
Cuba
Red Cross
Hiss Cook
Powers
New York
Aacon
Isthmus
Pacific
Canal
Kant
Haeckel
Matthew Arnold
Tennyson
Browning
Colon Hospital
St. Thomas
Colonel Gorgas
Schwestern
Hanover
Friulein Luise Brockemeyer
Gorgas
Ancon
Colen
Philippines
Taboga
Panama
Pangma
Y W C A Moves National Headquarters and Training School
The YWCA transfers its national headquarters to 125 East 27th Street in a new building funded by Mrs. Russell Sage. The national training school moves from Chicago to New York at 3 Gramercy Park to train secretaries. The curriculum includes Bible study and church history alongside broader studies like economics.
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Young Women’s Christian Association
Russell Sage
East 27Th Street
National Training School
Chicago
New York
Gramercy Park
Young Women's Christian Association
School of Philanthropy
Yachting hair tricks for sea trips
A writer advises on keeping hair presentable while yachting. The piece recommends two transformations for day and evening use, suggests carrying shampoo powder, and notes sea air dulls and dampens hair. Regular thorough shampooing twice weekly helps prevent stickiness on deck.
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Fac
MME BESSIE LAPAIX Store Ad in New York Area
MME BESSIE LAPAIX at 25 West 320th Street between Fifth Avenue and Broadway advertises as headquarters for all materials for ladies fancy work. Specializes in narrow ribbons for pompadour work and filling sim worsteds sticks cottons canvases. Established 38 years.
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Mme
Bessie Lapaix
320Th ST
Fifth Ave
Bway
New Yor
Little Ann Higgins Keeps Age Bold At New York Diet Kitchen
Four foot tall Little Ann Higgins lives at Barrow street and is said to be nearly a century old by neighbors. She came from County Louth as a child and recalls Greenwich Village when Broadway coaches and Union Square pastures were common. Ann remembers the draft riots quarantine and Orange riots amid few idle days.
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Ann Higgins
New York
Barrow Street
Ann
County Louth
Greenwich Village
Broadway
Union Square
Ann Higgins and Hackley Kitchen Aid Support Rural Relief
Ann Higgins, once self supporting, is treated by a nurse after illness and now acts as a diet kitchen worker. She delivers milk to homes of the sick poor and helps connect families to food relief. Hackley Kitchen on the West Side serves milk to Mrs Hackley, a leading donor to the relief effort this summer. Meanwhile Connecticut's Farmington Mountains plans to become an Eastern Yellowstone Park with ten years of hunting and restoration of endangered birds.
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Ann
Diet Kitchen Association
Hackie
Diet Kitchen
Hackley Kitchen
Lower West Side
CB Hackley
Farmington Mountains
Connecticut
Yellowstone Park
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McHugh
Cape
Bar Harbor
Family Theatre
Harlem
Canarsie
Dreamland
Coney Island
Young Men's Christian Association
Tribune
Gerry Society
England
France
Germany
India
Tasmania
Australia
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Elbridge T. Gerry
Gerry
Weehawken Willow Furniture CO
C31
West 420 Street
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Little Ann Higgins
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