The subject, a journalist, began his career as a reporter on his home town paper, The Kansas City [Mo.] Star. In 1919 he helped establish The [New York] Daily News and became its managing editor. Three years later he became editor of Popular Science Monthly--a post he held until 1929, when he became editor of The American, a general-interest magazine. He edited The American until 1956, when its publication was suspended.

Stage and film actress Josephine Hutchinson was born in Seattle, Washington. She established her reputation on the New York stage in the 1920s and early 30s before venturing to Hollywood in 1934. Her performance in the title role in the Civic Repertory Theater's 1932 production of "Alice in Wonderland," just prior to this shift in her career, was highly acclaimed by critics.

The subject was an American opera singer.

Actress Beatrice Lillie was born in Toronto, Canada, and made her first stage appearance in London in 1914. After her American debut in 1924, she appeared often on the New York stage. She was in the New York production of Noel Coward's "This Year of Grace" in 1928, the year this portrait was made.

This sketch came to the society mounted in an album of sketches and engravings by Thomas S. Cummings and various other nineteenth-century American artists.

The subject received his M.D. degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1817 and was appointed consulting surgeon at New York's Bellevue Hospital in 1829. This sketch came to the society mounted in an album of sketches and engravings by Thomas S. Cummings and various other nineteenth-century American artists.

This sketch came to the society mounted in an album of sketches and engravings by Thomas S. Cummings and various other nineteenth-century American artists.

This sketch came to the society mounted in an album of sketches and engravings by Thomas S. Cummings and various other nineteenth-century American artists.