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Mrs. Marshall was born in San Lorenzo, a settlement nine miles above Oakland. She was educated in the public schools of the state and Baldwin University, Ohio. At the age of sixteen she began her
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literary career. Her first prose writings werc descriptive articles, and she was one of the paid writers for the weekly papers. Her stagc career was as a member of stock companies that played in different theatres in San Francisco. In 1881 she was a member of a San Francisco company that opened the Royal Hawaiian Opera House in Honolulu. This was the first real theatre in that city, and it contained royal boxes for the King of the Islands and his retinue.
Miss Fleming married a newspaper man, Rudolph A. Marshall. She assisted Mr. Marshall in managing the paper, and also carried on her other literary work as contributor to magazines and writer of feature articles. For four years she was on the staff of the San Francisco Traveller, which subsequently became known as the Sunset Magazine, and she remained for four years on the Sunset staff. She did space writing for San Francisco dailies, including the Chronicle. Her short stories appeared in many magazines, including Leslie's and Munsey's
With Mr. Marshall she published three papers at Burbank, the Bur- bank Times, the San Fernando Times and the Newhall Times. She did the local and editorial work while Mr. Marshall looked after the advertising and business end of the Journal. Mrs. Marshall went abroad and traveled for a number of years, spending most of her time in Paris. Since 1915 her home has been in Los Angeles.
Mrs. Marshall and Mrs. Clara Spaulding Ellis of Eagle Rock, were the founders of the Southern California Woman's Press Club. They founded this organization in 1894. Mrs. Marshall still devotes her time to teaching and writing.
She has a son, Clifford F. Marshall, a civil engineer at Portland, Oregon. Her daughter is Mrs. Otto Fries, well known in vaudeville as Vivian Marshall, wife of Fries, who plays heavy parts in comedies.
HENRY M. GREENE. There are old and honored names in the national life of the United States that are recalled with reverence, not only by those of the present day who bear these names, but by all Americans who cherish the ideals of these Colonial ancestors and are proud of their achievements. One of Pasadena's leading citizens, Henry M. Greene, who is known the country over as an eminent architect, can trace a direct ancestral line that reaches back even to the earliest and most notable families of New England and Rhode Island.
Henry M. Greene was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, January 23, 1870, and is a son of Thomas Sumner and Lelia A. (Mather) Greene. Thomas Sumner Greene was born in 1842, at Cincinnati, Ohio, and is a direct descendant of Christopher Greene of Rhode Island, a brother of Gen. Nathaniel Grcene, and on the maternal side from the noted Sumner family of Boston, Massachusetts, a conspicuous member of which in national affairs for many years was the great statesman, Charles Sumner. Thomas Sumner Greene is a physician specializing in nose and throat diseases. He is a veteran of the Civil war, enlisting in his native city in Captain Hicken- looper's artillery company, later taking part in the battle of Shiloh and in the siege and capture of Vicksburg. He was honorably discharged at the end of the war with the rank of assistant adjutant general. He is a member of the Loyal Legion and of Ransom Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of which post Gen. William T. Sherman was also a member. He married Lelia A. Mather, who was born in Virginia in 1844, a direct descendant of Rev. Richard Mather, who came from England to Massachusetts in 1635. During the Civil war, while living in Barboursville, a village occupied alter- nately by Federal and Confederate troops, and being a staunch Union sympathizer, Mrs. Greene had some thrilling experiences and on one occa- sion only saved her life through the exercise of great bravery. It required unusual courage to attempt to ride on horseback through the enemy's picket line when carrying messages and money to friends in the North. She did not obey the command to halt, although she was fired on, and succeeded in
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eluding the outlying pickets and, reaching a covered bridge, crossed the river and escaped.
The brother of Mr. Greene's Grandmother Greene, T. H. Sumner, as a young man went to sea, and later became a prominent captain in the Mer- cantile Marine service. He perfected a method of more accurately reckon- ing a ship's position at sea. His method was known as "Sumner's Method." The method evolved was one of finding both the latitude and longitude at the same time, and in 1847 he published an excellent pamphlet on this sub- ject. This pamphlet was afterward required by law to be on board all American ships. While the method of calculation was lengthy and trouble- some, the accuracy in the reduction of the errors in the ship's position was a great advancement. In 1869 Azimuth tables were published which greatly reduced the labor of calculation. At the present day, while greatly improved upon, Sumner's Method is still the basis of ascertaining a ship's position.
Henry M. Greene attended the public schools of St. Louis, Missouri, and the famous St. Louis Manual Training School, famous because it was the first of its kind in America and was the embodiment of the idea of Prof. Calvin M. Woodward, of the civil engineering department of Washington University, St. Louis. The manual training, introduced and fathered by Professor Woodward, was an epoch in educational work and was later introduced in the high schools all over the United States. The course was three years, and in 1888, in a class of fifty students, Mr. Greene was graduated with honorable mention. In the fall of the same year he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the class of 1892, to take a special course in architecture. His great-grandfather, Thomas W. Sumner, was an architect. After his course there, Mr. Greene spent some time in Boston, working in the offices of Chamberlain & Austin, Edward R. Benton (one of McKim, Mead & White's men), and for the firm of Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge. In the fall of 1893 he came to Pasa- dena, California, and began the active work of his profession here in 1894 in association with his brother, C. Sumner Greene, under the firm name of Greene & Greene, which association continued until 1919, when the brother withdrew from the firm in order to locate in the northern part of the state. Since then Henry M. Greene, architect, has practiced alone.
During the continuance of the above firm nearly 400 buildings in Cali- fornia, mostly residences, were planned and superintended. The firm made a study of climatic conditions and designed the work so as to take advantage of them. The ideals which the firm tried consistently to follow were : Avoidance of sham and insincerity in design and construction ; striving to embody the owner's personality and ideas of his needs into a unified whole which was beautiful and at the same time simple, without being bound by traditional style; giving much thought and study to all parts and details. often designing the grounds and interior furnishings as well as the building itself. The firm designed the Henry W. Longfellow School, of reinforced concrete, the first fireproof school building in Pasadena. Among the beau- tiful residences designed by this firm are those of Henry M. Robinson, S. Hazard Halsted, R. R. Blacker, D. B. Gamble, George H. Barker, and Mrs. F. F. Prentiss, all of Pasadena ; William R. Thorsen, Berkeley ; Morti- mer Fleishacker, Woodside; Mrs. Mary M. Kaw, San Diego; Charles M. Pratt, Ojai ; and Earle C. Anthony, Los Angeles. Mr. Greene was appointed by Mayor Thomas Early, Frederick L. Roehrig and Elmer Grey, is a committee of three architects, together with the city attorney, to draft a Building Code for the City of Pasadena, which work was successfully accomplished.
At Rock Island, Illinois, on August 22, 1899, Mr. Greene married Miss Emeline Augusta Dart, daughter of William H. and Charlotte A. Dart of that city. William H. Dart, a native of Pennsylvania, accompanied his parents in 1857 to Rock Island. Shortly after the completion of the Union Pacific Railroad to San Francisco, in the summer of 1869, he and a sister came to California, touring through the state, also going by steamer to Portland, Oregon. He came to Los Angeles by stage, visited the Baldwin
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ranch and San Gabriel Mission and gave such glowing accounts upon his return home that they were received with incredulity. The mother of Mrs. Greene was born in New York City, a daughter of Elbert R. and Caroline (Horton) Sammis. In 1856, when six years old, she accompanied her parents when they removed to Moline, Illinois. She now resides at Pasadena.
In political faith Mr. Greene has always been a republican, has served many times on election boards and was a charter member of the widely known Americus Club during the Mckinley campaign. At the first call for volunteers for service in the World war, although beyond the age limit, he registered with the Tech Club in Washington. Before many weeks he received a call to supervise the construction of airplane factories, but when the order came he was critically ill with rheumatic fever and was unable to do any work for many months. While convalescing he had to content him- self with aiding in the Liberty Loan work and served as captain of a district.
Mr. Greene is a member of Corona Lodge No. 324, F. & A. M., Pasadena. He is a member also of the American Institute of Architects ; the Southern California Chapter of the American Institute of Architects ; Pasadena Chamber of Commerce; Engineers of Pasadena; Alumni Asso- ciations of St. Louis Manual Training School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and of the Red Cross Society, and formerly was a member of the Archaeological Institute of America and active in the Automobile and Twilight Clubs.
MADAM ANNA RUZENA SPROTTE, the distinguished Bohemian contralto, has dignified and honored her art alike in her exceptional talent and in her gracious personality, and she is doing most effective serv- ice in the advancing of the standards of musical art in California. In the City of Los Angeles she owns her attractive home, at 2025 Seventh Avenue, and the same is a center of refined hospitality and much cultural charm. She is a leading spirit in the Community Art Center of Los Angeles, and as a soloist, operatic and oratorio singer and artist of broad and varied experience she constitutes a valued addition to the cultural circles of California. As a teacher she receives at her studio a representative clientele, and is an enthusiast in the develop- ing and directing of musical talent.
Concerning Madam Sprotte the following appreciative estimate has been prepared and it is worthy of perpetuation in this connection : "The voice is an index to the character of all men, and when it is so attuned that its richness and resonance make music, we have the first essential for a great singer. In Madam Anna Ruzena Sprotte we have such an exceptionally gifted artist whose innate musical gifts and thorough grounding in music enable her to give full ex- pression to her conception of a song or any part in opera and oratorio.
"Born in Prague, Czecho-Slovakia, Madam Sprotte studied the piano as a mere child and with such success that at the age of thirteen she played the 'Grand Concert' by Liszt with the Prague Philhar- monic Orchestra. Later she went to Paris, where she studied voice culture, concert and oratorio singing, under the distinguished tutor- ship of the incomparable Madame Marchesi. For cight years she sang with distinction in grand opera in all the leading cities of Europe. Wherever Madam Sprotte sang she met with the greatest success. Since her arrival in America she has been received as befitted a vocalist of great talent, singing with the Thomas Orchestra of Chicago (now the Chicago Symphony Orchestra), the Minneapolis and St. Paul Symphony Orchestra, the Seattle Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra, and many other musical organizations."
Among the noteworthy artistic achievements of Madam Sprotte is her splendid service in establishing and developing of a local com- pany for the production of grand opera in the City of Seattle, this company having a record of three seasons of successful production, the ambition of Madam Sprotte being to see the establishing of similar
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organizations in all other cities that do not have the privilege of seasons of opera.
In conclusion of this brief sketch are given a few selected extracts from innumerable press notices acclaiming the talent of Madam Sprotte, she having appeared in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Prague, Paris, London and other leading art centers of Europe prior to estab- lishing her home in the United States: "There were tears in her voice and a heart throb in every note of Madam Sprotte's impressive inter- pretation." (Dr. Tappert, Berlin.) "Never was the title of 'Royal Courtsinger' conferred with greater merit than upon Madam Sprotte. Her Selica (Afrikanerin) was a model performance." (Professor Krause, Dresden.) "The combination of voice and histrionic art in Madam Sprotte's Ortrud (Lohengrin) was unsurpassed." (Dr. Ger- lich, Wiesbaden.) From American press notices are taken the follow- ing extracts : "Her rich contralto was by turns vibrantly dramatic and tenderly lyric." (San Francisco Chronicle.) "She is an inter- preter of rare intelligence, and a singer who has grasped the depth of her art." (Musical Courier.) "This artist has been endowed by the Creator with a voice of golden quality, full of romance and reso- nance." (Omaha Tribune.) "Madam Anna Ruzena Sprotte is the possessor of a contralto voice of transcendant beauty. Her enuncia- tion is delightfully clear, her interpretation was the essence of musi- cianship and artistry. There is no finer artist anywhere." (Pacific Coast Musical Review, in referring to Madam Sprotte's appearance in the California Symphony Concert, San Francisco.) "Madam Sprotte has the most valuable of all artistic possessions, apart from voice and technique, a charming personality. She lives her songs." (San Fran- cisco Examiner.) Of her appearance with the Los Angeles Oratorio Society in the presentation of Verdi's Requiem, May 7, 1922, the Saturday Evening Post of Los Angeles spoke as follows: "Rarely has Madam Sprotte sung with more loveliness of tone, a delicacy paired with sympathetic intensity of feeling, making her art stand out through its inherent quality."
FLORENCE HENDERSON. While experience has proved that there is scarcely a profession or vocation in which women as well as men may not meet with success and even distinction, there is one that seems peculiarly well adapted to her --- the trained nurse. It is a noble profession and is being nobly served.
Miss Florence Henderson, president of the District Nurses' Associa- tion of District No. 5, which includes all of Los Angeles County, Cali- fornia, a member of the American Legion, and a thoroughly experienced nurse both in war and peace, has been a resident of California for five years, making her home at Los Angeles. Miss Henderson was born at Maquon, Knox County, Illinois. Her parents were natives of Pennsyl- vania, of sturdy Scotch-Irish stock, and in her childhood the family re- moved to Nebraska, where her father was interested in handling farm lands. Her early education was obtained in the public schools of Nebraska, but later she returned to Illinois and became a student in Knox College at Galesburg. By the time her course was completed there Miss Henderson had determined on a future career, and subsequently entered Clarkson Memorial Hospital, at Omaha, Nebraska, and in that institution completed her course of training as a nurse, being graduated in 1900. So complete was her efficiency that she was tendered and accepted the position of super- intendent of that hospital and school of nursing and continued there for three years.
There are few names better known in medical science in the United States than that of Mayo, and perhaps no higher tribute could have been paid to Miss Henderson's efficiency than her acceptance as anaesthetist in the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minnesota, or better evidence of her scienti- fic attainments than the fact that she remained in this responsible position
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of administrator of anaesthetics for a period of thirteen years, during the last eight years of this time having entire charge of this department.
Miss Henderson took a very active part in all war work after the recog- nition of the need of nurses, and was busy recruiting for the Red Cross when she was assigned to duty at Camp Kearney, and there she remained for six months, her duty being the administering of anaesthetics and train- ing nurses to be sent over seas to do this work. So much confidence is placed in her judgment, accuracy and skill that this specialty has become her main work, and she finds a large part of every day occupied with her merciful ministrations for many of the leading surgeons at the different hospitals. She is identified with numerous professional organizations. and is secretary of the local committee on nursing service of the Red Cross.
MISS JEANNETTE HAZEL. In a field of useful endeavor, not over- crowded at present, a competent, talented, highly educated young woman. well known in business and social life, has in the past twelve years made herself almost indispensable to the residents of Los Angeles. She is Miss Jeannette Hazel, secretary and treasurer of the Los Angeles Undertaking Company, a graduated embalmer and a member of the firm of Hazel & Worley, undertakers.
Miss Hazel was born in Canada, her father, Robert Hazel, having settled in the Dominion when he came from England. In her childhood her parents removed to Waverley, Massachusetts, where her father was interested in farm pursuits. He was a man admired and beloved on account of his many philanthropies. From early schooldays Miss Hazel's versatile gifts were recognized. She entered upon the study of medicine, and spent two years in the Harvard University Medical School. In 1906 she came to Los Angeles and continued her medical studies for a time in this city, then took a course in embalming and in 1907 formed the undertaking firm of Hazel & Worley, which has continued and prospered.
In January, 1920, the enterprising editor of the Los Angeles News addressed a letter to Miss Hazel, respectfully asking her, as a successful business woman in what may be termed an unusual vocation, to let the readers of his newspaper know something of her viewpoint on the subject after a decade of experience. Miss Hazel graciously complied, and in a short series of brilliantly written articles, presented the subject so clearly and convincingly from a business standpoint, and so tenderly and delicately from the sex standpoint, that no reader could for one moment be in doubt as to her womanly courage, her sound judgment and her dignified efficiency. Miss Hazel might easily number among her other talents that of literary composition.
As a business woman Miss Hazel is alert and practical. In no way is she a sentimentalist, any more than is the earnest physician doing his best to cure human ills, but she is not lacking in that sympathy that sorrow calls forth, and in her own gentle way can often assuage it. Every detail of the business comes under her eye and nothing is neglected. She assumes entire charge of the burial preparations of all women and children. The firm has recently completed a fine three-story building at 2517 Pasadena Avenue, which is modern in every equipment.
For sixteen years Miss Hazel has been a member of the Wednesday Club and belongs also to the Century, the Dickens and the Highland Park clubs.
HAROLD ADNA LOCKWOOD. One of the notable moving picture stars whose careers are identified with the Los Angeles vicinity was the late Harold Adna Lockwood, who had obtained a first place in the profession before death terminated his career so full of greater promise.
He was born at Brooklyn, New York, April 12, 1887, son of William H. and Jennie Hartshorne Lockwood. He was educated in public schools at Newark, New Jersey, where his father was a business man. He com- pleted a high school education, and he then determined to follow the career
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preferred by his mother, the stage, in preference to the wishes of his father that he should enter business. His first experience was with Frohman's Arcadians, and subsequently he was with Shuberts' Belle of Brittany, and later with B. C. Whitney's "A Broken Idol." For two seasons he was in vaudeville.
Then, in 1911, he started for California with Dorothy Davenport and her mother for the purpose of entering pictures with the Nestor Company. His first picture was Baby Shoes. He played with many companies, in- cluding the Selig Film Company, and while with that was with Kathleen Williams, Bessie Eyton, Tom Sands, Wheeler Oakman and others. From the Selig he went to play with Mary Pickford in Tess of the Storm Country in 1914, and also in Hearts Adrift and Such a Little Queen. He next played with Margaret Clarke in Wild Flower, The Crucible and other pictures. At Santa Barbara, while with the American Film Company, he played opposite May Allison in The Promise and Broadway Bill. With the Metro he starred alone in many pictures, including Pals First, The Great Romance, and Shadows of Suspicion. It was while playing in the picture Shadows of Suspicion that he was taken ill with influenza, and he died after four days, on October 19, 1918. A double had to be substituted for him to complete this picture. He had also played after coming to California with the Universal Film Company at Universal City.
The late Mr. Lockwood was a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club. He was very athletic, fond of all outdoor sports and had a hobby for beautiful motor cars. He came to California as noted with Mrs. Daven- port and her daughter Dorothy, who is now Mrs. Wallace Reid, and he lived with the, Davenports at Los Angeles for a time. He was a personal and intimate friend of the late Wallace Reid.
On January 8, 1906, Mr. Lockwood married Miss Alma Jones, of New York City. They had one son, Harold Lockwood, Jr., now fourteen, a handsome counterpart of his father and who plans to take up his father's work on the screen as Harold, Lockwood, Jr. He is now attending the Hollywood High School. Mrs. Lockwood and her son live in their Cali- fornia bungalow at 1416 North Normandie . Avenue in Hollywood. This place Mrs. Lockwood purchased after her return from Australia.
MRS. ELIZABETH McMANUS, who maintains her Los Angeles official headquarters at 821 Pacific Finance Building, is a woman whose splendid powers have manifested themselves in great constructive service along civic and sociological lines, and in this important field she is one of the prominent and influential figures in the State of California, within whose borders she has maintained her residence for somewhat more than twenty years.
Mrs. McManus was born in England but was a small child at the time of the family removal to the United States and was reared and educated in New York City. From early womanhood she has been deeply interested in social welfare work, and with the same she has been closely and effectively associated for the past fifteen years. She organized and devel- oped the public-school dispensary of Los Angeles, and was one of the first members of the Social Service Commission, which she organized and of which she was the active director or chief executive for a period of seven vears. She is now director of the California Bureau of Social Hygiene and a member of the State Board of Health. She is chairman of the Federated Woman's clubs for the Los Angeles district ; is curator of the social-science department of the Ebell Club ; is California state chairman of the national organization of women in public health service: and is a member of the National Conference of Social Agencies. Mrs. McManus has to her credit also much of distinction and effective generalship in effecting the estab- lishing of the El Retiro Industrial School, a state institution for the deten- tion and aiding of delinquent girls.
In connection with her state work Mrs. McManus has offices in both Los Angeles and San Francisco, and in each of these cities she has a corps of most efficient and loyal assistants.
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The social-hygiene program of California has developed largely into a system of education that works with and through the medium of schools, clubs and social organizations of varied types. It is, therefore, interesting to record that at the head of this splendid service stands one who, though not a member of the medical profession, is achieving wonderful results. The California Bureau of Social Hygiene has films, charts and other well selected material with which to impart public instruction and counsel. In a single month the bureau recently distributed 8,651 pamphlets ; provided a series of four lectures to the nurses in each of fourteen hospitals ; a similar series of four lectures in several high schools; lectures to the P. T. A., woman's club, etc. ; exhibition of instructive films to an aggregate of 2,060 persons, and lectures before a total of 3,597 persons. The general policy along which work is conducted is in safeguarding the young and destroying disintegrating social influences at the source, the work being thus of wholly constructive order and California being the only state in the Union yet to have established such a benignant department of service.
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