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Early years. The son of bandmaster Arthur Pryor, Roger Pryor was born in New York City. [3] He had a brother, Arthur Pryor Jr., who was also a bandmaster. [4] Pryor attended the Dwight School in New York.
This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago. Chicago, Illinois Walt Disney's Chicago...
Chicago's downtown area is packed with world-renowned museums. From the Art Institute to the Field Museum, check out these must-see Chicago museums near the Loop.
Ernest Hemingway’s Birthplace Museum, 339 N. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park. Explore Chicago’s extraordinary historic house museums, and walk in the footsteps of Frank Lloyd Wright, Jane Addams, and the city’s elite. Experience life as it was in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Actor Roger Pryor was considered the "poor man's Clark Gable" at Universal and Columbia studios where he held long-term contracts during the 30s and 40s. The son of the popular composer/band leader Arthur Pryor (1869-1942) and his wife Maude Russell, the mustachioed leading man used his slick, roguish looks to good effect, enabling him to ...
19 maj 2022 · Chicago’s mega museums draw millions of visitors each year to gape at the world’s largest dinosaur, the most impressionist paintings outside of France, and other superlatives. They’re joined by several smaller venues with local, provocative and sometimes free collections that equally amaze.
At the convention, delegates from the slave state of Missouri presented John Potter with this 31-pound, 6-foot-long folding knife to commemorate his "victory" over Roger Pryor. It was a highlight of the convention and earned national press exposure when Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper dubbed it the "monster bowie knife."
