From the Footlights to a Hard Life for Stage Girls
The article describes the demanding life of young actresses who endure long rehearsals and pay fines for absences. Models supplement income while learning a play, with six weeks to train before pay begins. It also discusses social reforms and a new two year program run by the Young Women’s Christian Association with Grace Dodge and Helen Gould supporting a school for leadership, education, and public welfare.
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Broadway
Family Theatre
Harlem
Canarsie
Dreamland
Coney Jeland
Young Men's Christian Association
Educational Alliance
East Side
Educational Alliance Theatre
Chicago
India
Tasmania
Australia
America
England
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Elbridge T. Gerry
Gerry
United States
Fke
Young Women's Christian Association
New York
New York City
School of Industrial Training and Applied Art
Young Christian Association
Grace Dodge
Young Women’s Christian Association
Helen Gould
National Board
Elizabeth Wilson
National School
Caroline B. Dow
Ous
Women’s
N. P. Hill
Denver
Drawing as the base of arts education in New York and Panama nursing life
Dr. James P. Honey advocates drawing in public schools as a means to skilled design and civic betterment at an international art congress. The Panama Canal zone nurses face hard, rewarding work with decent pay, housing, and social life, aided by modern hospitals and a supportive administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James P. Honey
New York
Royal College of Science
London
Honey
National Society For the Promotion of Industrial Education
America
Dr. Honey
New York City
Arthur W. Dow
United States
Panama Canal
Canal Zone
Japan
Cuba
Red Cross
Bliss Cook
Aacon
Isthmus
Pacific
Canal
Kant
Haeckel
Matthew Arnold
Tennyson
Browning
Colon Hospital
St. Thomas
Colonel Gorgas
Schwestern
Hanover
Fraulein Luise Brockemeyer
Ancon
Colon
Philippines
Taboga
Panama
Pangmations Ofolonel Gorgas
Y W C A Opens National Headquarters and Training School
The Young Women's Christian Association moves its national headquarters to a new building at 125 East 27th Street. The national training school will open next month at 3 Gramercy Park, Chicago, for training secretaries, expanding curricula beyond religious study to include economics and philanthropy topics.
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Young Women's Christian Association
Russell Sege
East 27Th Street
National Training School
Chicago
New York
Gramercy Park
School of Philanthropy
Yachting Hair Care Tips For Sea Trips
A reader notes yachting harms hair and suggests two identical transformations for day and evening wear. Carry shampoo powder on voyages to combat damp sea air, and perform a thorough shampoo about twice weekly to stay clean and avoid sticky, heavy hair on deck.
Ladies Fashion and Yacht Trip Health Tips Feature
Bessie Lapaix at 25 West 20th Street promotes materials for ladies work while offering nautical beauty and wardrobe advice. The piece covers sun care, freckle remedies, hair cleansing, yacht travel comfort, and cautions about high heels and spirit lamps aboard ships.
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Mme
Bessie Lapaix
West 20Th ST
Fifth Ave
Away
New York
Little Ann Higgins the aged four foot patient at New York Diet Kitchen
Four foot tall Ann Higgins is described as nearly one hundred years old as she visits the New York Diet Kitchen on Barrow Street. Neighbors recall her long life since arriving from County Louth and recount historic events from old Greenwich Village with few idle days in her later years.
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Ann Higgins
New York
Barrow Street
Ann
County Louth
Greenwich Village
Broadway
Union Square
Ann Higgins Aided by Diet Kitchen Volunteers
Ann Higgins, once frail, now visits Hackley Kitchen daily for milk nourished by neighbors. She assists sick families and helps locate mothers and babies who benefit from the Diet Kitchen relief. Hackley Kitchen, serving lower West Side, is led by nonagenarian patron Mrs. CB Hackley. In Farmington Mountains Connecticut, owners plan ten years no hunting to restore wildlife and stock birds like wild turkey and ruffed grouse.
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Ann
Diet Kitchen Association
Hackley Kitchen
Lower West Side
CB Hackley
Farmington Mountains
Connecticut
Yellowstone Park
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McHugh
Cape Cod
Madagascar
Joseph Pae & Co
Bar Harbor
Grand Opera
Fifth Avenue
Ali
Tribune
Taw
Gerry Society
France
Germany
Weehawken Willow Furniture CO
C37
West 420 Street
Syntax OF the Arts
Little Ann Higgins
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