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Anna Pendleton Schenck (d. 1915) was an architect in New York; she and Marcia Mead founded an architecture firm together just a few years before Schenck's passing. The New York Times snarked in its headline that "GIRL ARCHITECTS ORGANIZE A FIRM....Houses They Design Will Have Plenty of Closets." In March 1915, Schenck & Mead won a design competition sponsored by the City Club of Chicago, with their plans for a neighborhood center in the Bronx. Later that year, Miss Schenck died from pneumonia at New York Hospital, age 41. Her obituary says she was born in Brooklyn, daughter of Rev. Noah Hunt Schenck (1825-1885), rector at St. Ann's Protestant Episcopal Church of Brooklyn; that she was one of the first women to earn a degree at Columbia University; and that she studied architecture in Paris, under Aubretin.

Percy Grainger en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Grainger 1882 - 1961 was a composer, performer, and collector of folk music. He was born in Australia, trained in Germany, lived in England, before moving to the USA in 1914 where he took US citizenship.

Australian Pianist/Composer. See notes under


His mother was Rosa (Rose) Annie Aldridge Grainger (1866-1922), a biographical page devoted to her at the Grainger Museum site:
www.grainger.unimelb.edu.au/percy/rose.html

Retired at last and artolog: Thank you for the information on Grainger and his mother. We will add more details to the catalog record.

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The sun., April 30, 1916, FIFTH SECTION LITHOGRAVURE SUPPLEMENT, Image 51 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1916-04-30/ed-... is a page of photos of lovely ladies with dogs --the Pampered Pets of the Stars of the Stage and Screen Bonnie Glass is bottom center with her "scotch hound." www.streetswing.com/histmai2/d2bglass.htm has some biographical information, beginning, "Bonnie Glass was another very talented and successful dancer in vaudeville Theaters during the 1910s. Started her career as a Musical Comedy soloist, she found she had a knack for dancing. " "Glass would partner many future movie stars such as Clifton Webb (1914) and Valentino (1915.) "

Picture 11 in the sequence at www.adelsongalleries.com/exhibitions/2006-05-09_light-imp... is a drawing of her by Everett Shinn (1876-1953), perhaps in the same outfit: Bonnie Glass, 1915; Pastel on paper; 33 1/2 x 16 inches; Signed lower left: Bonnie Glass by Everett Shinn 1915

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uploaded by Flickr user Puzzlemaster who indicates that she was born "Helen Roche."

Her personal life was clearly as newsworthy as her professional life. The Evening Independent - Dec 13, 1921 news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19211213&i... has a long piece suggesting that her marriage to the wealthy artist Ben Ali Haggin might be on the rocks. It mentions that here first marriage was in 1911, when she eloped with a Harvard student, Graham Glass, Jr. The article covers a foursome, Bonnie, her husband, her former dancing partner, Al Davis, and his wealthy wife, the former Eugenie Kelly. The Ogden standard-examiner., December 31, 1922, The Standard - Examiner Sunday Feature Section, Image 25 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058393/1922-12-31/ed-... a full-page spread headlined, "And What Will Pretty Bonnie Glass Do Now?" This piece indicates that she and her husband had separated and suggests she might marry her former partner, Al Davis.