Widener and Elkins European fellowships awarded at Philadelphia School of Design
The Philadelphia School of Design for Women awarded for the first time the P. A. B. Widener European Fellowship and the W. L. Elkins European Fellowship for Achievement in Art. Mary S. Braid and Lillian M. Genth won the new honors as part of a post year celebration. Both had trained at the school and are former Girls' High School students, illustrating the impact of local art education.
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Philadelphia School of Design
Broad
Master Streets
P. A. B. Widener
William L. Elkins
Pp. A. B. Widener
W. L. Elkins
Miss Braid
Philadelphia
Widener
Elkins
Braid
Genth
School of Design
Girls’ High School
Philadelphia School of Design For Women
Redwood F. Warner
P. Pemberton Morris
Margaret W. Silvis
Downingtown
William J. Horstmann
Jennie M. Grant
John Baird
Mary 8. Braid
Lillian M. Genth
Fashion Notes Highlight Summer Styles And Jewels
Near Argentine gray shades set the palette with Carmencita embroidery and double faced fans. Flowered piques and metallic taffetas lead ribbons while white flannel outfits appear for country and sea. Lace dresses trend for summer as brown Holland linen coats, silk stockings, and light jewelry pieces frame understated stones.
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Holland
Polite American Loses Seat in Hamburg Streetcar
An American traveler in Hamburg, strict about offering his seat to women, misreads a German sign meaning occupied. He stands to allow a woman to sit, but the car becomes overcrowded and the conductor orders him off the vehicle.
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Hamburg
What One Woman Thinks Enter the Fly
A compact sample of prose and aphorisms on women, talk, manners, and life. Reflections range from wit about cleverness to cautions on speaking and loving, tracing social observations in playful quips and quotes.
Gossip About Great Singers Stir Vienna Memories
Fragmentary item recalls Pauline Lucca’s accident and the era’s rival divas Patt and Nilsson. It notes Meyerbeer backing for Solika in L Africaine and a court singer appointment later forfeited by 1872. Mentions Frau Grebdner of Vienna and aging stage legends Nell Gwynn and Nell Tempest in London.
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Vienna
Pauline Lucca
Patt
Nilsson
Meyerbeer
Solika
Mathilde Mullinger
Concert Tour Attracts United States And Australia
Marie Brema to sing at a concert tour across America with potential shows in Australia. Esther Palliser, a Philadelphia native now living elsewhere, is named as a leading prima donna for a royal festival in London. Lillian Blagvelt, an American soprano, is reportedly engaged for a major upcoming production in London, with performances set to begin in October.
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Marie Brema
Jaemaens
Hereford
Glang
Lillian Blagvelt
Rano
Philadelphia
Uvelt Ee
Aine
The Man Who Was Envied
An old observer recalls a grand noble estate with turrets and a costly stable. He visits the gate and muses on Fate and social decay as a common mortal might be housed near such splendor. The piece blends reflection on privilege and mortality with imagery of stately promise fading.
Studio carved from cliff overlooking the Atlantic
RS Harry Payne Whitney, Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt, creates a cliffside den or studio cut from solid rock at her Newport estate. Set to be ready before season’s end, it will serve as a tea venue for entertaining friends with views of the broad Atlantic.
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Harry Payne Whitney
Gertrude Vanderbilt
Newport
Thousands Flock to Cities in Migration Surge
Thousands of young men from rural districts converge on major cities, with estimates ranging from forty to fifty thousand annually to New York and ten thousand to Philadelphia as part of a broad movement shaping urban centers.
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New York
Philadelphia
Uae
Talented Girls Win Europe Fellowships at Design School
Eight graduates of the normal art course at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women receive diplomas and two traveling European fellowships. Mary S. Braid and Lillian M. Genth win the Widener and Elkins European fellowships for study in London and Paris.
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School of Design For Women
Margaret W. Silvis
Downingtown
M. Koenig
Houghton, Mic
Europe
London
Lewis F. Day
Paris
Miss Genth
Whistler
Charming Garden Fete by the Misses Richardson
The Misses Richardson hosted a garden party yesterday at their father’s residence Schomach in School House lane Germantown. A brilliant crowd of fashionably dressed guests attended from 5 to 7 30 pm in perfect weather, enjoying diaphanous attire and lively conversation.
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Richardson
Ealhe
Madame Cartier Pays Respects to Elegant Clients
A fragmentary notice notes Madame Cartier paying respects to a select clientele in a refined setting. The unreadable text hints at a possible event or tribute focusing on wealth and fashion among high society.
Handsome House Opens for Yacht Club in Essington
The Philadelphia Yacht Club unveils a new colonial style home on twenty seven acres at Essington on the Chester branch of the Reading Railroad. Governor Stone and staff attend with a seventeen gun salute and a yacht review aboard the club flagship Nanon. The 28 room, steam heated, electric lit estate includes parlors, trophy rooms, sleeping quarters for fifty, golf, tennis, croquet, shooting traps and a large pier with anchorage basin for yachts.
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Philadelphia Yacht Club
Essington
Chester
Reading Railroad
Governor Stone
Nanon
Club
Abraham L. English
Warren Webster
William H. Bromley
W. Joseph Hearn
W. Bockhammer
C. Carroll Cook
Samuel S. Barth
J. Lewis Good
J. Horace Cook
Robert P. Thompson
Institute of Teacher Training Ends Spring Term With Talks
The spring term at the Institute of Teacher Training concludes Tuesday evening with special exercises. Professor Martin G. Brombaugh of the University of Pennsylvania will address on Studies in the Principles of Teaching, followed by Kerr Boyce Tegeer delivering a closing paper on Bible Doctrines. The event features prominent ministers and scholars and aims for a fitting scholarly climax.
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Kerr Boyce Tegeer
Ein
Firecrackers Kill Boy In City Accident
Morris Goldstein seven year old boy was killed by a package of cannon crackers in his pocket. He bought the firecrackers near his home at Milewater street and, while walking to a vacant lot, fell and ignited the matches in his pocket. He was taken to Pennsylvania Hospital in critical condition but died from injuries.
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Vienna
Frau Grebdner
Morris Goldstein
Pennsylvania Hospital
Young Goldstein
Milewater Street
Front and
Queen Streets
Race and Constitution Probe on Franchise Exclusion
Senate privileges and elections committee considers Pritchard's resolution calling exclusion from franchise based on race unconstitutional. A substitute directs inquiry into constitutional compatibility. The move, passed along party lines, prompts a northern and southern interest in North Carolina conditions while awaiting Senate action.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Privileges and
Pritchard
Senate
North Carolina
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