Evening star. [volume], November 02, 1927, Page 20, Image 20

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300 PAY TRIBUTE
TO OTIS SKINNER
Friends in Philadelphia Honor
| Actor on Fiftieth Anniversary
| of Stage Debut.
the Associated Press.
! PHILADELPHIA, November 2.
Tribute to Otis Skinner on the fiftieth
(anniversary of the beginning of his
(stage career, was paid yesterday by
*3OO leaders of the Intellectual Life
Jat a luncheon.
i The n.itorl actor, the guest of honor,
recalled October 31, 1877, when he pa
ltered the Ninth and Arch streets
museum with a letter of introduction
*to P. T. Barnum, which read: “o.‘ A
jFkinner is known to me. His nnrents
fre very respectable people.”
Mr. Skinner said his memory of the
*>ld days was cloudy, “but I remember
that I had nightmares about missing
my lines. I was a forlorn boy. wan
dering about the street without
friends, repeating my lines to myself
constantly.
“My first Job at the Arch street
museum paid me $8 a week. I played
325 parts the first year. Once, when
I went op the stage, my legs shook
so badly that the manager exclaimed,
•For God’s sake, Skinner, keep your
legs still.’ ”
On the luncheon tables were copies
of the museum’s program for Decem
ber 26, 1877, showing pictures of O.
A. Skinner as Fozzle. in a skit called
“Hungv Dunky." The part was de
scribed as a pantomine, but the actor
■ said he could not recall either the
piece or the part.
INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE
PROPOSAL IS RENEWED
Contractor and / ociates Again
Ask Permit to Build Structure
Over St. Lawrence River.
By the Associated Press.
BROCKVILLE, Ontario, November
2.—W. Gilbert Freeman of Alexandria
Bay, N. Y„ announced here yesterday
that he and his associates planned
to renew their application for per
mission to construct an international
bridge across the St. Lawrence river.
The private bills committee of the
House of Commons, at the last ses
siono, refused the application for a
charter after the department of rail
ways and canals announced it was
■ the intention of the Canadian govern
ment to construct a bridge across the
river near the Great Lakes terminal.
The proposed Freeman Bridge would
cross from a point near Alexandria
Bay, N. Y., to Rockport, Ontario, mak
ing use of islands in the river.
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Chaplains Gather
Armistice Day at
Arlington Shrine
By the Associated Press.
Active and Reserve chaplains of the
Army who participated in the relig
ious ceremonies at the interment of
the Unknown Soldier in Arlington
Cemetery in 1921 will gather again
at the tomb Armistice day to re
new memories of the day and deco
rate the grave.
The chaplains in the group include
Col. John T. Axton, chief chaplain of
the Army; Bishop Charles H. Brent
of New' York, Dr. Morris S. Lazaron
rabbi of Baltimore, and Chaplain
John B. Frazier, director of chaplins’
affairs of the Navy.
The ceremonies will include deco
ration of the Chaplains’ Cenotaph in
the cemetery', erected in memory of
the 23 chaplains who lost their lives
in the World War.
Mme. Borodin Reaches Moscow.
MOSCOW, November 2 M’l.-Mme.
Michael Borodin, wife of the former
adviser to the Canton Nationalist gov
ernment, has arrived here from Vladi
vostok, Siberia. She w'as released
from prison in Peking last July, after
having been arrested by the North
ern Chinese authorities four months
earlier.
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NEW YORK
AND RETURN
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SUNDAY, NOV. 6
i SPECIAL TRAIN
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12:30 A. M.
RETURNING
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West 23rd St.
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Standard Time
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Tickst Agsnt
Baltimore
11 &Qhio 1.
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