Broadway Memories and Pastiche Echoes in July Dispatch
A breezy New York July column muses on stage figures from De Wolf Hopper to Helen Morgan, with flirtations of other celebrities and reflections on old parlors, vaudeville banners, and nostalgic domestic relics. The piece threads gossip, theater lore, and mid century social textures through a stream of vivid proper nouns and scenes.
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New York
de Wolf Hopper
George Munroe
Matty Fe
Forrest Wilson
Wilbur Forrest
Ziegfeld
Sidney
Oder of Pines
Lois Long
New Rochelle
Charlies B. Dillingham
Derby
Hal Shelley
Edward J. Doherty
Logolin
Adam
Frisco
Channing Follock
Frankfort
George Price
Helen Morgan
Louis Mann
C. D. Gibson
Fred Detwiller
Dave Stamper J
Legion of Honor
Coates House
Kansas City
14Th Street
Les 16
Vicki Baum
Union Square
Brass tastes and a voyage to Havre on Miss Ferber
The passage recalls a sea voyage on Miss Ferber and a Cockney steward's half-abstract remark as the barque rose in a breath-taking lift before tipping toward Havre. The narrator notes sailors' rougher tastes and the voyage's perilous mood aboard the deep Atlantic crossing.
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Miss Ferber
Havre
McNaught ; Syndicate, Inc
86 year old plans first flight after surgery
Detroit area hospital story notes Misa Lydia C Hopkins, an 86 year old club woman, recovering from an appendicitis operation. She says the doctor approved, she packed her bag, and plans to fly the day after discharge to continue getting well.
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Detroit
Misa Lydia C. Hopkins
Club Women
Rent dispute suit filed in Worcester district court
Worcester, Mass.—The rent dispute suit lists Morris Sheir as plaintiff and Maurice L. Shaer as defendant with Henry R. Sher serving as defense counsel. The record notes the case name resembles similar rent dispute proceedings and names involved.
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Worcester, Mass
Morris Sheir
Maurice L. Shaer
Henry R. Sher
New Eagerness for Schooling Revealed in Chicago
Chicago school officials note a shifting mix of enrollment and births. First grade decline 10 percent over a decade contrasts with high school growth of 211.6 percent and eighth and ninth graders up 38 and 93.9 percent respectively. For 1922 totals, 326,140 students. now first six grades 238,883, grades seven to nine 120,676, grades ten to twelve 71,205. Birth rate falls 24.1 points from 1913 to 1931.
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Chicago
William J. Bogen
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