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Margaret Caroline Anderson (November 24, 1886 – October 19, 1973) was the American founder, editor and publisher of the art and literary magazine The Little Review, which published a collection of modern American, English and Irish writers between 1914 and 1929. [3]
In 1923 he and his wife Margaret Park Redfield traveled to Mexico, where he met Manuel Gamio, a Mexican anthropologist who had studied with Franz Boas.Redfield graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in Communication Studies, eventually with a J.D. from its law school and then a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology, which he began to teach in 1927.
Helen Josephine Mansfield (December 15, 1847 – October 27, 1931), known professionally as Josie Mansfield, was an American stage actress. Mansfield is best known for being at the center of a fatal love triangle involving two wealthy, high profile men: financier Jim Fisk and his business partner Ned Stokes .
Thunder Rock is one of the two Robert Ardrey plays still made available for production by the Dramatists Play Service. [39] The other is his 1954 play about the treatment of accused communists in post-Cold War America, Sing Me No Lullaby. [40] Later commentators have remarked upon the prescient nature of Thunder Rock. As a call to American ...
In early October 1912 Granville absconded to Algiers, and his firm was liquidated. A story that copies for America went down with the Titanic in April 1912 is probably not true. [2] Mansfield refused permission for a reprint of the collection in 1920, both as they were juvenilia and they could contribute to post-war jingoism.
"Harry Truman" is a song written by Robert Lamm for the group Chicago and recorded for their album Chicago VIII (1975), with lead vocals by Lamm. The first single released from that album, it reached number 13 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. [1]
Pekin Rag was written by Joe Jordan, to celebrate Robert T Motts' Pekin Club, in Chicago. The club soon became the ground-breaking, African American Pekin Theatre. Established on June 18, 1904, Chicago’s Pekin Theatre was the first black owned musical and vaudeville
Straight history of the Exposition and also the workers' paradise in Pullman is found in James Gilbert's Perfect Cities: Chicago's Utopias of 1893. Mike Royko's Boss (1971), written by a Chicago Daily News columnist, is a biography of the powerful mayor Richard J. Daley. The book provides a critical look at Daley's rise to power and at Chicago ...